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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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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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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This sounds like a form of hell.
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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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An extension of this idea: you could explore storylines that would otherwise take a lifetime of creative thought to find.
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Or are undiscoverable by humans: c.f. the novel Go and chess strategies AI have surfaced.
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This is a little frightening. You could grow old with The Friends.
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Include fanmade media and fan participatory activities and we hit the singularity a while back
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You should read some game dev postmortems on procedural content.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Long running Soap Opera vs long running Space Opera
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