I agree that we should act like if we were in base reality or in an acausal trade sim, but I think the logic here doesn’t really go through.
First of all, there might be universes where there is only on civilization, and that civilization is not interested in acausal trade but interested in running sims for entertainment. Then there is no one to buy data from them.
Second, Claude estimates that approximately 2% of glabal GDP is spent on facilitating international trade, while 0.25% is spent on making movies, tv series and video games, and maybe 10-20% of that is historical stories or fantasy.
Of course it’s dangerous to generalize from these numbers to the far future, but I think it’s not crazy to imagine that entertainment sims are not entirely negligible compared to sims created to facilitate inter-universal trade.
And I don’t buy the argument that the acausal trade folks would always want to buy the results of the entertainment sims. Professional historians don’t pay Ridley Scott for the data on how the simulated battle goes down in Gladiator.
I don’t think we would notice if we lived in a world that is created for entertainment purposes and is about as realistic as Gladiator.
I agree that we should act like if we were in base reality or in an acausal trade sim, but I think the logic here doesn’t really go through.
First of all, there might be universes where there is only on civilization, and that civilization is not interested in acausal trade but interested in running sims for entertainment. Then there is no one to buy data from them.
Second, Claude estimates that approximately 2% of glabal GDP is spent on facilitating international trade, while 0.25% is spent on making movies, tv series and video games, and maybe 10-20% of that is historical stories or fantasy.
Of course it’s dangerous to generalize from these numbers to the far future, but I think it’s not crazy to imagine that entertainment sims are not entirely negligible compared to sims created to facilitate inter-universal trade.
And I don’t buy the argument that the acausal trade folks would always want to buy the results of the entertainment sims. Professional historians don’t pay Ridley Scott for the data on how the simulated battle goes down in Gladiator.
I don’t think we would notice if we lived in a world that is created for entertainment purposes and is about as realistic as Gladiator.