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That sounds good and all, but at the end of it somebody has to run it, and I don't think there's any person or (kind of) organization I'd like to entrust with
by felurx 4y ago
That sounds good and all, but at the end of it somebody has to run it, and I don't think there's any person or (kind of) organization I'd like to entrust with managing _reality_. (And if I had to make a list, Meta is probably close to the bottom.)
The good thing about our universe is that it doesn't care what we do with it, and it doesn't have any incentives.
But once there's a company in it that needs to maximize profit, things are going to get sticky. Democracy isn't perfect either and can turn bad.
And what about the potential for technical malfunctions? What about hacking? What about abuse? What about those who can't afford the hardware? What about those who don't want to join?
Building that utopia is going to require rebuilding half (or all) of society first, if we don't we have a near guarantee of getting a dystopia real fast, and even if we manage to avoid that there are too many intrinsic ways for this to turn horrible.