So I’ve had this theory in my head since way before AI, but now it suddenly feels way less sci-fi and way more “give it a few decades.” Modern GPUs have become insanely more powerful since the mid-2000s. A top graphics card back then could handle a few hundred billion calculations per second. Today’s high-end cards can do tens of trillions per second — roughly a 200x jump in about 20 years. And now AI is already getting freakishly good (at insane pace) at visual generation, video, style consistency, scene continuity, etc. We’re watching the early versions of systems that can generate realistic moving worlds from text/images. It’s janky in places, sure, but the direction is obvious. So here’s the theory: What if, im roughly guessing i like 40–50 years, people can “relive” a life in full simulation? Not just watch it like a movie — actually experience it from the inside. Born as that person, grow up as them, live their life, die as them. Basically a hyper-advanced memory/life simulation that feels completely real while you’re in it. And your own (and maybe old and weak) body is kept in some sort of cryostate irl or smth idk. That would mean its not just a meme, some people really are AI NPC’s. Now the dark part: If the future actually turns out to be harsher — more climate pressure, whatever geopolitical thing is going on — then baseline reality might start feeling less appealing. Especially for people with money. When comfort and control in the real world become uncertain, the ability to purchase a better, safer, more exciting existence could become the ultimate luxury. So what happens if rich people can literally buy lives? Like: “I want to live as a world-famous boxer.” “I want to live as a movie star.” “I want the version where everything went right.” And poor people either: can’t afford it at all, get low-tier versions, or end up reliving “bad” lives / filler lives / whatever the bargain-bin package is. … What if you’re the discounted one? What if somewhere, someone scraped together just enough to experience a “mid-tier struggle life” — and that’s you. ------------What if you can relive your own life? Maybe that’s why people get déjà vu or those weird hyper-specific “precognitive” dreams. Because some part of your mind is brushing against moments it has already gone through in another loop. Like maybe consciousness in certain sleep states can “bleed” into nearby runs of the same life. ---------- What if other people are paying to experience your life? What if you’re not mid tier. What if your life does become content? What if the reason your life feels weirdly unfinished is because the “good part” hasn’t happened yet — and that’s the part people are paying for?
If technology keeps scaling the way it has… at what point does “simulation as entertainment” turn into “simulation as existence”? And if that happens… How would you even know which layer you’re on? submitted by /u/strasbourg69
Originally posted by u/strasbourg69 on r/ArtificialInteligence
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