Billion Dollar Game Idea--yours free here! (I can't do it)

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Yes, I believe no one has had this particular game idea ever. Think I addressed this in another post. It’s a product of decades of effort to understand our situation holistically. It’s a unique approach. People dream up unique things all the time–have you read books or watched movies?

You make a good point and I’m trying to figure out quick-easy way to address it. That is, what is the potential for mass buy-in, which is needed to see that “billion dollars,” right?

Humanity is in a rut. Has been for 263+ years, at least since the start of the Industrial Revolution. It has not always been this way! Back in the day, when indigenous peoples were the norm, with hunter-gatherers and agrarian practices, and shamanistic cosmovisions…? The concept of sustainability was embodied in people on individual basis. It used to be the norm. However, even then the illusory “exploitation win” was a thing.

What is new, is giving that thing up. The argument can be made that as the apex species of the planet, we have a unique position. Exploitation works for every other species, but not for us. Why? Because we have been able to override the natural governors that otherwise control a species from wreaking global damage.

Victims of our own success, we need to rise to a different level. Instead of being the apex predator, just like every other animal would if they could…our station requires a different niche function: Guardians of the Biosphere. That requires us to give up that failed ideology of exploitation.

So, there is a fork with two future branches possible. One, is that we stubbornly refuse to evolve, do our thing, and let Nature sort it out. It is not impossible that that could lead Earth to looking like Venus.

The other is that we rise to the challenge and let go of the “Exploitation Win,” among other things.

You are 100% right if you are saying the odds of that happening are small, and hence not enough people would want to play this game to make it a billion-dollar idea.

However, I will counter that with this. Some people will want to play it. And what I am trying to do is come up with a venue for demonstrating this alternative shared dream for what humanity could be like. There is a chance it could take off. It should take off, if we actually want to save our biosphere. In that regard, I was under-selling it. What are ideas worth, if they lead to halting mass species extinction and loss of biospheric mass and accumulation of CO2, etc.? I would say personally that those are quadrillion dollar ideas.

This is the only planet we have, and a lot of life is counting on us to fix the problems.

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The polished solutions will come from doing it, not by chatting about it. Can say a starting point would be a reporting system and TOS that states people get permabanned for uploading intellectual products into the game that they did not personally create in their entirety.

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Yeah, has to be a first time for everything. What puzzles me is some of the sticking points people have. Not the ones I would have zeroed in on.

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Thank you. Yes, I don’t get dopamine hits from debating the idea. Discussing it, I do, but the sport of debate doesn’t have appeal to me. Would rather be good-faith discussing the challenges and how to overcome them, if possible.

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Addressed this in another post where I discuss “two possible forks.” In one it is not a billion dollar idea, in the other it is. It should be, because it can demonstrate a culture from the set of possible cultures that are solutions to us damaging the biosphere. Such cultures do exist. People cannot envision them, is part of the problem. So, a sim-style game would let people live them.

But please understand this is more than a sim-style game. Those games are worthless wastes of time. In this game, it is more properly an adjunct to real life. The community and friends you make there are real. The intellectual properties you make and consume there are real, and add value to your real life. The economy there is real. You can live and die there and have real children there (that’s a whole nuther post, but there are NPC’s that can be adopted and put to work, plus if someone you know wants to join the game…they don’t just the game. It’s a whole thing.)

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Not understanding what you are saying? Can you rephrase it?

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Wasn’t talking bad about you, no worries. It’s just that most people roll their eyes when reading something like “Billion Dollar idea” and in some cases fight it, while in many other cases (when it comes from big companies especially) look behind it and try to find out what’s the meat of the thing that is talked about. For me it’s simply the means of getting some attention for something one wants to talk about.

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Oh, that helps. Well, I do have a bit of a track record, albeit in a Forrest Gumpian way. I developed what I called Intangible Reality–and shared that patent-pending tech with big companies [their names are confidential to protect the guilty] which led to what you call Augmented Reality. They [arguably merely] re-imagined my tech so as not to infringe and ran with it. Exploitation at its finest. Zero dollars to me to continue my work. Zero more attempts to work with Corporate America: on strike Ayn Rand style. So they won from the exploitation but there is a corrosive effect on inventor types, leading to less global innovation: world loses a little. That is an example of the Exploitation Win Illusion.

So my point is that I do come up with billion-dollar ideas and this is one of them.

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I see where you’re coming from now. We share some things, was also ruined by a company ten years ago and it took that long to get back on track, to heal from it so to speak.

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My current hypothesus [could just be optimism…but hope not] is that it is not entirely human nature to be exploitative and narcissistic. It’s a scale that varies over time, that we all wrestle with on the daily, sure. But…we have been selecting for it.

What I mean is that we have let ourselves fall in a rut of following “strong leaders.” Well, if we look at our choices of strong leaders…look objectively…what do we find? Every one of them is a narcissistic sociopath [see sociopath definition: “someone willing to hurt others if it is to their personal benefit”.]

So what do these NS’s do once we elevate them to positions of authority? They use that position to then structure society in their own image, make society a place where they can thrive and where it works in a way they understand.

Look at elites. Or governments. Or corporations. Or the police. Or religions. Or medicine. Or the law profession. All of these are arguably priests of the religion of narcissistic sociopathy.

Put another way, we are selecting for NS’s and so amplifying that aspect of human nature. We could also deboost it.

So, my hope is that a game like this could demonstrate that our “strong leaders” have been leading us astray, and higher quality lives and communities are possible. Those results could/should sell themselves.

Yes, the NS’s consider this idea a threat. Yes, I deal with the push-back from them and their flying monkeys on the daily. That is why I would not expect a corporation, for example, to bankroll this idea. Ditto for elites. It is their kryptonite.

So no, that will not happen. It would need to be individual developers like here cobbling the game together.

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We have been working on something similar for over a decade. We have been working in stealth. Please message me and let’s explore whether it makes sense to pursue this together.

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Just checking in on this – how’s it going with the “become an adjunct to real life” project?