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Would you give up your real life and body for a VR-paradise for the rest of your life?

Would you willingly enter a VR-paradise for the rest of your life?

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Sqrt

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Oct 26, 2017
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So, in a not too distant future, Palmer Luckey and Mark Zuckerberg present their solution for world poverty: A matrix like virtual world where everyone will live the good life. The access price is that you they will mine the computing and biological body for furthering their real world wealth, but you will be oblivious to this while inside the virtual world. Inside the matrix you will have the choice of joining one of the following worlds:

- WoW/SAO/Runescape like MMORPG world with grand adventures.
- Ready Player One virtual world.
- An Animal Crossing World where you build your house in a village or city.
- Similar EA's Sims World.
- Palmer Lukey's life simulator: You get to live the life of someone with the wealth of a genius entrepreneur like him.
- EA's Sports World: Live like a real football, Gridiron, NBA or MMA superstar athlete.
- Playstation Home Return: Play all of Playstation games and socialize in this classic world better than ever!
- Super Mario World World: Live in the Mushroom kingdom with Mario's super human athletic abilities!

New worlds are promised to be added in the future.

You can change world every six months.

So, would you?
 
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ItIsOkBro

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The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
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OP screwed up by involving Fuckerberg. There's no way it doesn't turn into a nightmare like Vanilla Sky.
 
DarthBuzzard

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Obviously. Everyone in 100 years will be doing it anyway. It's an inevitability of any advanced civilization.

I'd be very careful at choosing the company/software though.
 
TheOther

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Magic-Man

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Easily yes. But wouldn't Ready Player One's world include all of the others? It's literally a virtual universe featuring many characters and worlds.
 
Siggy-P

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When I got real old and couldn't walk I would maybe stick myself in something hyper similar to the real world (ala San junipero).

But not some video game like those world's you suggest OP. That would be a nightmare virtual hell of which there would be no escape.
 

Imperfected

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Nov 9, 2017
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Sure. I'm basically a brain in a jar that does awkward commutes as it stands, not having a body wouldn't really reduce my contributions to society or personal enjoyment that much, and it would presumably make it so that I have an extremely minimal environmental impact doing my brain-jar things.
 
Cookie

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DarthBuzzard said:
I mean you can certainly find happiness in today's world, but you're lying to yourself if you're saying life is peachy. No one in the world lives a 'peachy' life today because everything involves a lot more struggle than it did in 2019.
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Who are you to speak for everyone? People in New Zealand haven't had to deal with Covid for months, it's barely a blip in many Asian countries.

Plenty of people are doing just fine, some even better than before. Look past your own front door.
 
Dark Knight

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The VR experience would have to be way greater in scope and dignity than "play this dumb game for 6 months!"

That's basically enslavement, but with funny animal characters dancing around. This is my conscious mind we're talking about. There's far more freedom in the actual world than those "games."
 
DonNadie

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Oct 27, 2017
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WTF? I though OP was talking about a Matrix like simulation, but living in any of those video game worlds would be like living in a hellish purgatory, hell no.
 
Ducarmel

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Yes assuming the ideal scenario where the universe is 1:1 simulated and I have god/admin privileges and the machine that stores my data will have sufficient energy to stay online until the end of time or at least 100s if not eons longer than the normal human life span.
 
DarthBuzzard

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Cookie said:
Who are you to speak for everyone? People in New Zealand haven't had to deal with Covid for months, it's barely a blip in many Asian countries.

Plenty of people are doing just fine, some even better than before. Look past your own front door.
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Ah yes, because New Zealand is somehow secluded from the rest of the world. What happens if X person from New Zealand wants to visit their family in the US?

Apparently the global economy doesn't exist to you either, because New Zealand is this self-sustaining Utopia that never needs imports or outside trade.

Get real. Seriously, the takes on ResetEra are outright embarrassing at times. I feel like I'm in a Covid-denial thread again.
 
Ronin

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Why would I want to live in some hellish video game world? Sounds fucking awful.
 
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Oct 25, 2017
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I would absolutely jump at the chance of a Sword Art Online like full-dive environment, as it would be a net improvement to my quality of life. But it'd have to be something on the level of quality that ALfheim Online has in-story. Which, right now, doesn't really exist for a number of reasons.

I probably wouldn't jump on something Palmer Luckey/Mark Zuckerberg created tho, lol.
 
Cookie

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DarthBuzzard said:
Ah yes, because New Zealand is somehow secluded from the rest of the world. What happens if X person from New Zealand wants to visit their family in the US?

Apparently the global economy doesn't exist to you either, because New Zealand is this self-sustaining Utopia that never needs imports or outside trade.

Get real. Seriously, the takes on ResetEra are outright embarrassing at times. I feel like I'm in a Covid-denial thread again.
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Lol ok, enjoy your miserable life I guess. Over here things are awesome.
 
Magic-Man

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Other than the obvious family/friend related reasons and Zuckerburg, I really don't see any reason why you'd stay on earth if this is a fully immersive environment we're talking about here. You guys really want to stay on a world racked with a pandemic, about to get fucked by climate change, and where you have to work for the rest of your life just to get by? Instead of a world where you can do whatever you want?
 
Nepenthe

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"Would you give up your real life and body—"

No.

It literally doesn't matter what follows this phrase.
 
DarthBuzzard

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Cookie said:
Lol ok, enjoy your miserable life I guess. Over here things are awesome.
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As awesome as it might seem, there is no place on Earth that won't be negatively affected by the events of 2020. I mean maybe uncontacted tribes, but that's about it.

The global economy has the word global in it for a reason.
 
DarthBuzzard

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Lintemuth-Studios said:
You guys really want to stay on a world racked with a pandemic, about to get fucked by climate change, and where you have to work for the rest of your life just to get by? Instead of a world where you can do whatever you want?
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Yep. Apparently some people would prefer this, because reasons. Of course there's debate when you have to give up all your real world contacts/friends/family and so on, but if everyone and everything transitioned all at once, then there is no effectively no loss of anything, not even this loss of 'real' that some people speak of.

A virtual world fully indistinguishable from our own is experienced as real; you can't say it's not, because all experience derives from our sensory systems.
 
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