Same with farming simulators, mining simulators, fast food simulators, etc.
The plot is a world of warcraft style MMORPG is linked to real world settings (such as airport security) to allow people playing the game to preform real life actions (in the book, the example was sound an alarm when they spotted a character travelling the wrong direction). The idea being, if it is a game (or simulator as you say) you can make it waaayyyy more interesting than the real life work.
Between him and Daniel Suarez these "near future" sci fi writers are getting scary good at predicting some things.
Any other authors are books would be much appreciated!
I found it a pretty good prediction of NFT hype.
Thanks for the Daniel Suarez tip too. Looking forward to some good near future books.
I like Stephenson but there’s always this smug vibe; I picture him writing a chapter and then high-giving himself while shouting “I so so fucking smart!”. REAMDE is high on that and lower on genuine smarts than his other works.
oh no, while making sure I spelled his name right, I just got sucked into Shaftoe encountering Goto Dengo and the General on a baseball field.
must . . . . stop . . . . reading . . .Enders game is probably obsolete since AlphaGo zero can play better than any human. Just have the AI reinforcement learn over the course of a trillion games in the simulator.
https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/158683622017662976...
Hence one person kept in the dark and carefully prepared to be utterly ruthless at those who have attacked him (not his opponents in battle school--that's competition. He murdered (although he doesn't know they died) IIRC two bullies before the events we see in the movie) with the intent of getting him to fire on the planet.
AlphaGo would see firing upon the planet (or even at a target too close to it) as against the rules and wouldn't do it. Ender believed he had flunked out until he learned what really happened.
I get what you are saying, there is a risk to be acknowledged and protected against. I'm just saying it's different, but already there.
That neither you or your kids are at risk, only some loser dumb enough to trust the Turker Self-Driving app.
I've been thinking about a near future idea where people an play a real world RTS with RC cars and drones that fire small 22 rounds.
The vehicles could be assembled inside a small factory full of automated open source 3d printers/mills/pick and places/robot arms.
You could have different people playing different kinds of games with some users driving little RC tanks, or operating little turrets on stationary buildings, or driving cargo trucks that go pick up resources to feed the factory, and then others doing totally different activities like operating the factory or designing new machines for the factory to build / be built of.
I figure you could set this up in some rural state like Montana with cheap land / few gun regulations and let people pay to play, if it's successful enough your customer base will basically be doing R&D / mechanical turking your Von Neuman probe development and then when it gets small enough you can stick a couple factories on a rocket, launch 'em to the moon and make the sequel to the game be set in space...
Seems all they need is the .22s
I wonder how many organic farms were started due to people playing Stardew Valley.