An individual brain isn't that smart, but it has the ability to identify an objective and then what it needs to create to fulfill that, this is something that AI lacks that we're beginning to teach. Deepseek has been training minecraft AI to learn how to build tools and fulfill objectives in the games. It's not very good at it, but that is what will lead to an AI that can do anything.
One of the most impressive AI's was the AI bots that could solve dungeons in runescape. The runescape dungeons were designed to be unbottable, but people managed to build one. Runescape has rules against using bots to play the game, because if the tedium of the free version could be circumvented it less people would sign up for the premium version.
Part of how they got you to pay was making progress easier. There's a lot of lessons to be learned from simple things like an online game. It is a simulation of an economy. it shows that we can have a virtual economy. I think the grand exchange system in runescape is a model. because items in the game have to be acquired by players there's an actual value to the items, they develop trade prices based on how hard they are to obtain.
You can see economic laws of supply and demand playing out in this simulated economy, it's really cool. That's why I was so hooked. It's a euphoric feeling. Building your wealth and collection of rare items. It was so fulfilling, it killed my need to accumulate wealth or possessions in life. So I don't think work is necessary for fulfillment at all with my experience with online games.
That's why I never have been considered with employment or economic numbers, if we transition to simulation, there's endless fulfillment from leveling up character, collecting wealth and rare items in games. Competing against people for rank status, All that stuff is super satisfying in a visceral way, you feel it in your mind. You get hooked on the highs and lows, you crave the challenge and reward, gaining in game status, it keeps you engaged and fulfilled.
Anyone that's lived life that way knows you can do this sorts of things over and over, for a long time, content updates giving you a lot to do. My interest in AI was that I was living life hooked on this, and it was so fulfilling and satisfying I was worried no one would work, there would be shortages, so we needed AI to do stuff for us, so we could live this way.
That was my motivation, I wanted to live a life watching shows and playing online games.
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