Ready Player One and the Simulation Hypothesis: Are We Avatars in a Virtual World?
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OK so I watched Ready Player One this weekend. I’d read the book a while back and you can imagine I was very excited to see this movie.After all, I grew up watching Spielberg’s films in the late 70’s and early 80s, I played Atari 2600 games as a kid, and these inspired me to make video games myself and eventually become an investor in a number of VR/AR companies.Here’s my take: there’s something profound that Spielberg and company accomplished with Ready Player One, and it’s not really about whether it was a “good” movie with good acting.It’s not even whether the story makes any sense. I will try to avoid spoilers here in case you haven’t seen it (which is not that hard to do for a movie where the story is almost secondary!).I’m also not going to pontificate on why the changes from the book were (...)
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