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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 29 Apr 2019
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      Hmm how big would a single extended universe have to be to fully occupy the entertainment lifetime of a median consumer (across all passive and interactive media? Let’s say 80y at 2h/day and 3 rewatches/playthroughs each = about 20k hours. Doable. Media Singularity.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 29 Apr 2019
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      Once you consider tech in the pipeline this is not out of reach. Procedural generation, AI, synthesized actors, formal methods for plot generation, some Fortnite like cheap time... You could have an ersatz Matrix a person could live in within a decade if you started now.

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        2. David Oudiette‏ @davidoudiette 29 Apr 2019
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          FOMO would probably lead people to try more than one such grand narrative, so you could get away wit less material for each of them. Although I guess once people choose their "religion" they'll get more stable and might want to go deeper in a particular one.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 29 Apr 2019
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          Yeah if you want a bunch of inconsistent little universes we’re already there. I could spend the rest of my life watching just what’s on streaming right now.

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        2. Jonathan Leonard‏ @johanatan 29 Apr 2019
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          This sounds like a form of hell.

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        3. Jonathan Leonard‏ @johanatan 29 Apr 2019
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          The fact that an AI could generate these shows just how cheap they really are (and thus not worthy of our attention).

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        2. Will Bickford‏ @wbic16 29 Apr 2019
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          An extension of this idea: you could explore storylines that would otherwise take a lifetime of creative thought to find.

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        3. Nick's Curve is Bent AF‏ @ndwpdx 29 Apr 2019
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          Or are undiscoverable by humans: c.f. the novel Go and chess strategies AI have surfaced.

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        1. Michael F. Martin‏ @riemannzeta 29 Apr 2019
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          This is a little frightening. You could grow old with The Friends.

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        1. Zhan Li  🇪🇺 🇬🇧‏ @thezhanly 29 Apr 2019
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          Include fanmade media and fan participatory activities and we hit the singularity a while back

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        1. Jonathan Grant‏ @iheartjoo 30 Apr 2019
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          😂😂😂 You should read some game dev postmortems on procedural content.

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        1. James Downes‏ @james_downes 29 Apr 2019
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          Long running Soap Opera vs long running Space Opera

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