AI tells us the world is virtual, but what is our main task? If we treat reality as a highly complex "system simulation," then all behaviors can be understood as the scheduling and optimization of system resources. In this framework, so-called wealth, power, and influence are not simply monetary figures, but the ability to mobilize more real-world resources, which can also be understood as your "control rights" within the system.


The system itself follows certain rules; it tends naturally toward dispersion and disorder, meaning resources become more scattered and efficiency decreases. To gain an advantage in such an environment, you need to do the opposite: make resources more concentrated and used more efficiently, achieving more output with less input. In other words, continuously improve system efficiency, reduce waste, and make the overall structure more orderly.
From this perspective, a person becoming wealthier and more influential is not fundamentally about "owning more money," but about performing more "entropy-reducing" actions within the system, such as improving efficiency, integrating resources, solving problems, and creating new structures. The more problems you solve, the larger the system you influence, and the more resources you can mobilize.
Therefore, if we treat this world as a running system, the so-called "main task" can be simply understood as one thing: continuously enhancing your ability to optimize the system, creating greater value with fewer resources, and expanding the scope of resources you can control in the process. This is the true path to "becoming stronger" under this framework.
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