Four Key Features of the Metaverse

A complete metaverse needs to have four key characteristics, the last one may be the most difficult to achieve, and once achieved, it may lead to a very dreadful consequence, that is, the world is likely to be taken over by artificial intelligence.

The first feature is relative persistence. Persistence means that the metaverse cannot die once it is created. For example, in a metaverse, I managed to survive until I graduated from college, and I was about to show off my grand plan, but suddenly the server was unplugged and the metaverse disappeared, so I was busy working in vain? Just as many people were obsessed with "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" back then, when the love of your life is in the digital world, destroying everything in the digital world is equivalent to destroying you. So persistence should be well understood. So why say relative? Because there is no absolute persistence, the earth may be destroyed by the impact of small stars, so the persistence of a metaverse in the future will determine that people will migrate a large proportion of their lives to it. If there are multiple metaverses, then Persistence will determine which metaverse people prefer to be in.

The second feature is the synchronization with the real world. The metaverse itself must not only have a complete social and economic system, but also need to be able to communicate with the real world. For example, in the virtual world, the money we earn through labor or investment must be spent in the real world, or the money we earn in the virtual world is the money in the real world, and vice versa. Payment methods in the real world, such as WeChat, Alipay, digital RMB, etc., can be used directly in the Metaverse. Also in the virtual world, the boss holds a video conference for you, and then assigns you a task. When you return to the real world, you have to take it seriously. Because the goal of the metaverse is to give humans a digital living space that is parallel to the existing world, rather than a completely illusory world. Virtual does not mean illusory, otherwise it will really become a game.

For the same reason, the third feature of the metaverse is civilization. The standards of civilization and morality that we adhere to in the real world must be able to be extended to the virtual world, then this involves the question of what rules are used to judge civilized or uncivilized, and who should judge, in essence, it is a supervision The problem, if an organization is needed for unified management, then this will directly conflict with the next feature.

The fourth feature is decentralization. Since it is called the metaverse, this universe must be at least on the same level as our earth. Therefore, there cannot be only one center. Otherwise, if the company that develops this metaverse is allowed to make rules and manage it, wouldn't such a company become a god-like existence? For example, Zuckerberg tried to build Facebook, which has 2.9 billion global users, into a metaverse. If such a metaverse is closed, wouldn’t Xiao Zha become the big boss of these 2.9 billion users? Maybe many people have no concept of the economic scale of the digital world. Let me give you an example. The sales of digital goods in EPIC's game fortress profession have exceeded 1 billion US dollars, which means that once the EPIC company stops the game , then it is equivalent to directly erasing a multi-billion dollar market from the world, so the metaverse must be decentralized, otherwise it will not be the future of mankind, but only a monopoly of capital.

So for a decentralized virtual world, how to ensure its civilization? After much deliberation, perhaps the most ideal is to hand it over to AI artificial intelligence. Just like the three laws of robots, after humans formulate a few basic rules for AI, AI will learn and develop itself, and AI will maintain the moral civilization of the virtual world. And about immersion, this is actually a bonus item that belongs to the metaverse, not a necessary key feature. Of course, although the more realistic the virtual item picture is, the better, but as long as it has other key features, even if the fidelity is lower, it will not have an essential impact. Just like the example of the previous graduation ceremony, even if the full The full pixel style of "Minecraft" does not affect the normal holding of the ceremony.

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