Shiyue Weekly (Issue 18): What is the Metaverse

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This is the 18th issue of Shiyue Weekly. I just switched to Mailbrew last week, but I can’t log in this week. It is estimated that Mailbrew won’t last long. So I also dropped the email subscription entry for the blog’s weekly magazine, and those who have already subscribed can still receive Mailbrew’s emails.

what is the metaverse

The metaverse will be the hottest period from 2021 to 2022, but after ChatGPT came out at the end of 2022, people will no longer be able to discuss the metaverse. Because it is too far away to not land. Unlike ChatGPT, which has greatly improved the efficiency of programmers. Although the metaverse is no longer popular, if you want to understand the metaverse, the following 4 contents or indexes are very suitable.

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[Podcast] Metaverse Criticism – Machine Core Game Channel GADIO @ 2021

I listened to this episode of Jihe’s talk about the Metaverse last year, and I listened to it again this week, and took a lot of notes. At least it is the most detailed one in the Metaverse among the podcasts I’ve heard so far.

The content is not limited to the level of plausible concepts, and there are many technical details to break down. Difficulties involve many aspects. From the conclusion, the current technology is far from being able to achieve large-scale, realistic (infinite details), real-time 3D rendering and interaction. The key bottlenecks are computing power and data transmission (including storage).

In fact, if you look at the history of science and technology, every revolution is brought about by computing power and network breakthroughs. For example, the current ChatGPT is also brought about by a breakthrough in computing power. |The 15th issue of ” The Bitter Lesson – Rich Sutton / 2019 ” shared has a special discussion.

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[Podcast] Instead of discussing the “Metaverse”, we want to tell an absurd story – 打东打西@2021年

This issue can be used as a supplement to understand the metaverse. The podcast mainly shares the stories of the “RuneScape” game in Venezuela and the “Axie Infinity” game in the Philippines, from which you can see the game world (the reference most people use when imagining the metaverse entity) and reality interweave. These two stories were also mentioned in the podcast of the machine core above, but they were not detailed.

The gangster part in “RuneScape” and the loan part in “Axie Infinity” give me the feeling that no matter how technology develops, the logic at the bottom of the real society has not changed.

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Framework for the Metaverse — MatthewBall.vc @ 2021
‘The Metaverse Primer’ — MatthewBall.vc @ 2021

Matthew Ball was mentioned and quoted in the podcasts of Machine Core and Sound East and West.

Matthew Ball is an investor in the metaverse field, and he started to study the metaverse very early. “Framework for the Metaverse” is his summary of the metaverse, and he splits the metaverse into 8 components, and each part has its own Wrote the introduction of the article, and “The Metaverse Primer” is a summary topic of 9 articles.

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【Movie】Ready Player One (Douban) @ 2018

The physical imagination of the metaverse is very difficult, and no one has made it clear. The number one player provides a perspective of possibility, and it is also a common example when many people answer “what does the metaverse look like”.

I rewatched it again this week, and I still feel that it is very fragmented. The metaverse seems to be self-contained, but it is still in reality, at least it does not break away from the concept of “game”.

just looking around

WSJ published a report with many twists and turns… – @养夕的微博

A very interesting “side effect” of telecommuting: In the United States, there are more and more telecommuting, and programmers are very happy, but companies find that since they are all remote, why not hire lower-cost programmers from India and other places? As a result, the programmers began to discuss whether they should go back to work, or they would not even be able to keep their jobs.

The logic behind it is: once the flow of any resource breaks through the limitation of physical space, it will diverge extremely rapidly driven by interests . The flow of information and the flow of wealth are all the same. What telecommuting breaks is the flow of labor.

What Are Reasonable AI Fears? – Robin Hanson

Robin Hanson is an economist who analyzes the threat theory of AI from an economic perspective. I found one of the comments very illuminating:

Economics as a field of study is based on how people respond to incentives. In other words, it assumes that people respond in certain ways to maximize their personal interests, whatever those interests may be. But does this basic assumption apply to AI?

I don’t think so. One of the important sources of these aspects of human nature is the finiteness of life, but AI is immortal. Without these underlying assumptions, how can we predict the behavior of AI?

Montana passes bill blocking users from downloading TikTok

The state of Montana in the United States passed a bill to prevent users from downloading TikTok, which will be followed by signing and other links, and is expected to take effect in 2024. While a state ban is not operational, it is a very strong signal in itself.

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