> or reclusing themselves in some VR utopia. Interesting that you might consider that a positive outcome. My immediate reaction is that it would be a very nega

> or reclusing themselves in some VR utopia. Interesting that you might consider that a positive outcome. My immediate reaction is that it would be a very negative one. It feels like giving up - "it's not great out here, we can't make it better, might as well plug in and pretend." Maybe I'm making the same mistake as people trying to apply home ec budgeting to national economies; if I just dropped everything and started playing video games it would be bad, but the same might not be true for entire civilizations who are further up the Kardashev scale than humans.