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So why should I stop caring about the physical realm especially given YOLO (who knows you might be reincarnated as a bug for those who believe in that)?

• jstanley 4y ago
  Because you can have a better life in the virtual realm.
  • locutous 4y ago
    Life is defined more by relationships than things. In this a virtual world will be no different. The things you lose is the valuable lessons in the physical world like production and decay, health and sickness unless they are also brought over - then why be virtual?
    • jstanley 4y ago
      Production and decay are only valuable to learn because you need to learn how to deal with them. Learning about production and decay in the VR future is no more valuable than learning how to make fire from sticks is valuable today. OK, it's intellectually interesting, but it's just not a practical consideration in daily life any more. Re health and sickness: muscles would obviously atrophy, but you don't care because you don't need them. I think diseases would spread less because physical human bodies won't be mixing as much. I'm not sure what happens to human reproduction. Maybe human-inhabited VR is only a brief prelude to the true AI-owned future anyway.