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The Meaning of Life in the Metaverse (with David Chalmers)

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

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Is Scarcity Important in Virtual Worlds?

We are able to make choices about the characteristics ofte technical primitives that we are using to build these virtual worlds, so we can decide whether we imbue that code with an idea of scarcity or not. Not expect such a world to end up being a egaltarian utopia. In fact, the reverse of it. These are going o be worlds which are designed for a certain subset of people to make a lot of money in virtue of scarcities. And i must find f there to exist some worlds like this. But i very much hope in the end there are some worlds designed on entirely different social principles. I say, communities who want to put community and and equality first

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