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Slight tangent, but it's my intuition that some version of this is the end game for media. Completely compelling, AI created, individually attuned videos genera
by dbspin 2y ago
Slight tangent, but it's my intuition that some version of this is the end game for media. Completely compelling, AI created, individually attuned videos generated in or near real time that appeal so well to the individual (adult) viewer they overwhelm our learned resistance. Infinite Jest, but rather than dying laughing you orient your entire life around engaging with the content.
- jareklupinski 2y agoif we can fit that power into a box that can fly with me to alpha centauri, i think we'll be ok once we figure out feeding and waste management, entertainment over a low-bandwidth link will be tricky
- dbspin 2y agoPicture a two curves of technical progress. One is the process toward creating a 'hot' media stimuli so addicting that it shifts your utility function. The other is the route to interstellar travel. Now imagine the relative resources that are being expended to push technology along each curve.
- jareklupinski 2y agoan intersection of the two curves must exist, at some point when two roads diverge in a yellowed wood, blaze down the middle