Programmatically Generated Everything: a 2018 essay predicting AI worlds swallowing reality
danfaggella · x · 2026-09-07
In a discussion about immersive generated worlds, Daniel Faggella resurfaces his 2018 essay 'Programmatically Generated Everything (PGE)'. Thesis: within decades, most people will prefer AI-generated, hyper-personalized virtual experiences to real ones. That implies entertainment tailored in real time to your moods, virtual teachers/lovers/friends more fulfilling than many human relationships, and nearly all work done through immersive virtual interfaces — making the physical compute substrate the most important asset on earth. He quips that if your favorite art is game screenshots, soon you'll want to live inside FF7's coolest rooms or Pokemon Red's downtown.
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