WEBVTT - This Is The Future Career For Creators - Virtual Realities, Economies, and Meaning 0:00:21.723 --> 0:00:23.403 The more I think about it, the more I think 0:00:23.403 --> 0:00:27.993 major career for creators going forward will be building entire 0:00:27.993 --> 0:00:32.673 realities for people to live inside of. So think post 0:00:32.703 --> 0:00:38.943 AGI or ASI and post UBI and where games are 0:00:38.943 --> 0:00:42.933 extraordinarily immersive. So I think there will be a huge 0:00:42.933 --> 0:00:49.413 market for creative people, creative people building the storylines and 0:00:49.413 --> 0:00:53.373 stat systems that look and feel like entire worlds that 0:00:53.373 --> 0:00:56.373 people will live inside of. So imagine how everyone loved 0:00:56.373 --> 0:01:00.903 Game of Thrones for all those years, except like you're 0:01:00.903 --> 0:01:03.093 actually one of the characters. In fact, you're one of 0:01:03.093 --> 0:01:06.723 the heroes and you're navigating through the the difficulty, right? 0:01:06.753 --> 0:01:09.033 Or it could be like a superhero themed thing, or 0:01:09.033 --> 0:01:13.233 like a romance themed thing, or like fantasy or whatever 0:01:13.233 --> 0:01:17.103 the structure is. So imagine basically your favorite book or 0:01:17.103 --> 0:01:21.663 TV show or series or movie or whatever. We basically 0:01:21.663 --> 0:01:26.673 build fully immersive realities based on those for people to 0:01:26.673 --> 0:01:30.803 spend their time inside of. And the problem is, it 0:01:30.803 --> 0:01:33.593 can't all be entertainment because people need a purpose. They 0:01:33.593 --> 0:01:35.843 need some sort of drive. I think we're going to 0:01:35.843 --> 0:01:39.803 find ways to create that purpose inside of these realities. 0:01:39.803 --> 0:01:42.173 I have a piece from I need to go dig 0:01:42.173 --> 0:01:45.923 this thing up. It's from like 2002, and I basically 0:01:45.923 --> 0:01:49.223 said that the games of the future will be people 0:01:49.253 --> 0:01:53.333 going in and doing the work and the jobs inside there. 0:01:53.333 --> 0:01:56.393 So you'll go in there and you'll be a cop, okay? 0:01:56.423 --> 0:01:58.493 And you'll see someone coming down the thing and the 0:01:58.493 --> 0:02:02.033 music is too loud, or they're beating somebody up, and 0:02:02.033 --> 0:02:07.673 you'll go and actually engage in a fight with this person, um, 0:02:07.703 --> 0:02:10.163 to try to restrain them or whatever. Or maybe you're 0:02:10.193 --> 0:02:12.293 the bad guy and you're just going to go beat 0:02:12.293 --> 0:02:14.993 somebody up, and it's someone else's job to be the 0:02:14.993 --> 0:02:17.993 good guy, and they're actually paid or rewarded in some 0:02:17.993 --> 0:02:20.753 sort of way. So other people inside the game can 0:02:20.753 --> 0:02:25.133 give them something, or the system can reward them in 0:02:25.133 --> 0:02:27.593 a way that's good on the outside as well. Now, 0:02:28.493 --> 0:02:34.383 in most scenarios, your house in your game subscription and 0:02:34.383 --> 0:02:37.623 your game Gear, and everything is being paid by UBI. 0:02:37.623 --> 0:02:40.233 In this world that I'm thinking of, most of the 0:02:40.233 --> 0:02:44.703 jobs are gone and people are being paid essentially to 0:02:44.733 --> 0:02:50.163 live inside these realities, which is massively dystopian. I wanted 0:02:50.163 --> 0:02:54.933 to be very clear about that, if that is the 0:02:54.933 --> 0:03:00.093 only option. Okay. What I'm saying is that when the 0:03:00.093 --> 0:03:02.283 jobs go away, there will be a lot of people 0:03:02.283 --> 0:03:05.703 who want to live these lives because we are creative. 0:03:05.733 --> 0:03:09.603 We read these books, we see these movies. We we 0:03:09.633 --> 0:03:12.603 know that that's on offer. That's the thing we could 0:03:12.603 --> 0:03:15.453 potentially have. So if games make it where we can 0:03:15.453 --> 0:03:18.033 actually have it, we can actually be that hero. We 0:03:18.033 --> 0:03:20.223 will want to do it, but we won't want to 0:03:20.253 --> 0:03:23.613 do it. It will be empty and weak and shallow 0:03:23.613 --> 0:03:29.433 and lame and horribly destructive. If it's nothing but just 0:03:29.433 --> 0:03:35.163 like violence and porn, which there definitely will be that, right? 0:03:35.193 --> 0:03:37.473 There will be games that are just nothing but that. 0:03:37.473 --> 0:03:41.293 But it's all entertainment. It's empty, it's hollow. It's nothing. 0:03:42.973 --> 0:03:46.993 The better version of this, which I hope happens and 0:03:46.993 --> 0:03:52.123 definitely could happen with like, uh, if we're wielding AC 0:03:52.153 --> 0:03:54.763 or if AC takes over and it's doing this in 0:03:54.763 --> 0:03:58.513 a benign way, it would build meaning into the system, 0:03:58.513 --> 0:04:02.113 but it wouldn't require that you do it. You could 0:04:02.113 --> 0:04:07.123 also take off the gear, put it aside, go outside, 0:04:07.153 --> 0:04:13.903 start a community, start a farm. Like, uh, till the land, 0:04:13.933 --> 0:04:17.533 toe the land. What's the name? What's the verb? Um, 0:04:17.653 --> 0:04:21.073 you know, till I think it's till anyway, you tend 0:04:21.073 --> 0:04:24.793 to the land, you grow crops, you make food, people 0:04:24.793 --> 0:04:28.453 eat the food. You have families, you have kids like. 0:04:29.083 --> 0:04:33.943 So imagine this. There are societies that's kind of like Amish. 0:04:33.943 --> 0:04:38.263 They don't play the games, so they're kind of Amish. Um, 0:04:38.263 --> 0:04:42.013 and maybe there's, like more advanced technological versions of Amish 0:04:42.013 --> 0:04:44.933 where it's like, I don't know, the 1950s or something. 0:04:44.963 --> 0:04:47.813 Like in this ideal kind of world, except for it's 0:04:47.813 --> 0:04:52.193 everywhere and everyone can participate. I would argue that the 0:04:52.193 --> 0:04:54.203 actual reality is going to look like there's going to 0:04:54.203 --> 0:04:57.923 be some communities like that, some communities that are super Amish, 0:04:57.923 --> 0:05:01.013 they're like Ted Kaczynski, like tech is bad and they 0:05:01.013 --> 0:05:04.403 just do their own thing. Government should leave them alone. 0:05:04.433 --> 0:05:07.403 They are productive members of society. They have their own schools. 0:05:07.403 --> 0:05:09.563 They have their own religion. They have their own stuff. 0:05:09.563 --> 0:05:12.323 Like they're making their own food. Leave them alone. Everything's fine. 0:05:12.323 --> 0:05:15.143 They don't have to play the games and a bunch 0:05:15.143 --> 0:05:17.663 of people like maybe some of their kids, and that'll 0:05:17.693 --> 0:05:20.273 be bad, but a bunch of people are going to 0:05:20.273 --> 0:05:22.643 be like, are you kidding me? I want to be 0:05:22.643 --> 0:05:25.553 a superhero. I want to be a princess. I want 0:05:25.583 --> 0:05:27.383 to be, you know, I want to take over the world. 0:05:27.383 --> 0:05:30.833 I want to do all these things. Fine. Go find 0:05:30.833 --> 0:05:37.523 your meaning inside the game system. Importantly here, there is 0:05:37.523 --> 0:05:39.893 going to be a period of time in which we're 0:05:39.893 --> 0:05:43.103 going to need something like this as a transition period, 0:05:43.253 --> 0:05:46.073 because so many people are going to lose their meaning, 0:05:46.073 --> 0:05:47.603 they're going to have to go into this thing. I 0:05:47.603 --> 0:05:49.953 think there's going to be a requirement for an ASI, 0:05:49.983 --> 0:05:52.713 for a government, for something to be like, look, we 0:05:52.713 --> 0:05:55.323 need to give out money and we need to give 0:05:55.323 --> 0:06:03.993 them something awesome. I think game companies, whoever it is, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Sony, 0:06:04.023 --> 0:06:06.333 all these people, they're actually going to get hired by 0:06:06.333 --> 0:06:10.263 the government to create these giant scale games that people 0:06:10.263 --> 0:06:13.053 can live inside of. There's going to be haptic gear 0:06:13.083 --> 0:06:16.053 they think of like a military push to invent the 0:06:16.053 --> 0:06:19.503 bomb or whatever, but the military push is going to 0:06:19.533 --> 0:06:23.463 be to invent really immersive technology because we need it, 0:06:23.463 --> 0:06:26.613 because guess what? It is actually a military concern. It 0:06:26.613 --> 0:06:31.173 is actually a military level requirement that we do not 0:06:31.173 --> 0:06:36.393 have hundreds of millions of people. Also known as billions 0:06:36.393 --> 0:06:42.123 of people with no meaning and no money, because they 0:06:42.123 --> 0:06:45.903 will in fact light everything on fire and that will 0:06:45.933 --> 0:06:49.323 be bad. So there will be a period where we 0:06:49.323 --> 0:06:53.853 actually need to invent something like this to get us 0:06:53.853 --> 0:06:58.293 through this period. That kind of calms everyone down. But 0:06:58.293 --> 0:07:02.643 if you don't do it well, they will be satiated 0:07:02.643 --> 0:07:06.813 and they will be not violent, but it will start 0:07:06.813 --> 0:07:11.403 to rot. It will rot the human soul. Because what 0:07:11.403 --> 0:07:13.713 are they doing for creativity? What are they making? What 0:07:13.713 --> 0:07:16.593 are they building? Are they building? Are they making families? 0:07:16.593 --> 0:07:22.203 Who's making the kids? Right? I mean, the games didn't 0:07:22.203 --> 0:07:25.263 solve aging. So a bunch of people hooked into the games, 0:07:25.263 --> 0:07:28.893 they don't meet anyone. And two generations later, we don't 0:07:28.893 --> 0:07:32.973 have any people. Or actually, technically, I think everyone dies 0:07:32.973 --> 0:07:36.483 in one generation, right? If you're not reproducing. So like 0:07:36.513 --> 0:07:40.413 that is only a temporary solution to not have the 0:07:40.413 --> 0:07:43.323 world blow up. But ultimately you have to solve the 0:07:43.323 --> 0:07:47.613 meaning problem, which either happens outside the game, which I 0:07:47.613 --> 0:07:51.963 think that is going to happen and should happen, or 0:07:51.963 --> 0:07:55.953 inside the game. And I think what's most likely in 0:07:55.953 --> 0:07:58.983 a benign situation is that you'll have both.