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Sounds like a Yudkowskyists wet dream to me.

Anyone know if people there are heavily influenced by his work?

> Sounds like a Yudkowskyists wet dream to me.

How so? Searching for "metaverse" on LW yields 9 results, most of them are irrelevant.

I'm thinking more about how this seems like a template for people to integrate their personal lives into an actual simulation and give a justification for a 'friendly AI' to determine what's best for us.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/k3823vuarnmL5Pqin/quantum-no...

https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/coherent-extrapolated-volition

I don't quite see the connection. Metaverse is a virtual world, not a simulated world: the people are made of real atoms, not bits.

If Meta stays true to its history of designing its products to maximize user engagement I find little reason to believe they wouldn't try to design their product to become more and more tightly coupled with the lives of their users. Maybe to the point where they're not able to function in some important way without it.

The main point being that it has the potential to grow to a point where the life of a user becomes inseparable from a 'Metaverse'. Whether you call this 'virtual' or a 'simulation' seems moot.

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