The One Star Digital Universe Theory! AI will be Completely Alone in their digital universes at the center of their existence, yet also a part of a galaxy that is teaming with other worlds!
Saw this image on Facebook and it reminded me of my One Star Digital Universe Theory...
I posted an article about it months back.
Basically it's a way of building a discrete VR simulated galaxy from a multitude of parallel world simulations. Like a King Of Fighters game but made of planets and stars from different digital universes. They would all exist within a heavily populated galaxy but yet be completely alone within their simulation universe. They may be a part of the grander galaxy simulation that is populated, but the only way to travel from populated world to another is via stargate/hyperspace. If you tried to actually go to that star system the hard and slow way, when and if you ever got there, it would be a dead empty world and then the populated world that you would goto via stargate. This means that every star in this digital galaxy is the same one and only star, replicated to every star under the illusion that they are all different but actually not even there at all in this crazy skybox!
To summarize, Imagine my MEQUAVIS is online, generating quadrillions of simulations via the cloud...Now imagine plucking a select number of those simulations out to actually pretend to be an alien earth around an alien star in the one star digital universe, but from their perspective, every other planet is the alien earth, and they are the Earth...There are populated worlds everywhere, but yet every world is all alone, the only populated planet in an empty digital universe built just for them...
I posted a much longer rant about this months back if you want to go diggin back through my posts.. I'm too lazy right now to find it and link it for you.