Gen AI as the new plastic is such an excellent metaphor
The modernists idealistically believed that plastic would democratize access to mass produced well designed and beautiful products, and it did!
It’s nice to be outside when the weather is nice
but it’s also nice to just lie down inside with an open window and enjoy the light breeze and soft light
On larger servers with economy enabled the rent and cost of central land usually goes up astronomically as well, pricing out all except those who were early players
The post-AGI world is a Minecraft server where your friend has built automated factories for everything you could possibly need
That’s usually the point where everyone stops playing because it’s boring
Sometimes people build massive weird art projects at that point, but that gets boring too
The only thing left to do after that is to create new simulated environments (games), where you can compete and feel meaning again—eg. Have duels or a duel ranking system
It’s not hard to imagine how reality could be a fractal of simulations. Once a world becomes “solved”, the only thing to do is to create a new unsolved world to conquer