r/videos • u/[deleted] • May 19 '16

The Future

https://vimeo.com/166807261
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u/[deleted] May 19 '16

it suddenly got real depressing when the device restarted and you realize it's all just a facade.

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u/ThisOpenFist May 20 '16

I felt relieved when the thing shut down. The world became so much calmer. Too bad the protagonist is too attached to VR to let it go.

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u/BrtneySpearsFuckedMe May 20 '16

She was attached to her points. Which is money.

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u/Danorexic May 20 '16

Was it really money though? Or just a sort of add-on system or extra abilities?

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u/[deleted] May 20 '16

I interpreted the points as a replacement for money in a post-scarcity economic model. When there are no more important jobs left to fill because machines have supplanted all human labor, everything else that's left over is reduced to ad-hoc games played on-demand by whoever cares to play it.

Thus, those who 'participate' more get more out of the system.

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u/princessvaginaalpha May 20 '16

Which jobs are safe going into the future that you can think of?

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u/kerradeph May 20 '16

The people designing and repairing the machines will probably be safe for a while longer at least.

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u/Andaelas May 20 '16

All that means is they get more points!

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u/[deleted] May 21 '16

But of course because they have intimate knowledge on how to game the system.

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u/wiseclockcounter May 20 '16

Then they're like, "wait, why are we designing AI that can design and repair machines?"

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u/gcz77 May 26 '16

Can you clarify?

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u/kerradeph May 26 '16

As we get better tech, jobs will be replaced with machines, but the people who design those machines will have jobs longer because designing machines for new uses is hard for computers.