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That sounds absolutely horrible.

• jstanley 4y ago
  What part sounds horrible? You can have whatever life you want. Assuming sufficiently high-quality VR, it is obviously better than actual reality.
  • LunaSea 4y ago
    You'll own a house you can't live in, with a pool you can't swim in, sipping cocktails that are not refreshing, with a girlfriend that is not a girl and not attracted by the real you either.
    • jstanley 4y ago
      But you can do all of those things. If you can't do those things, it's not a sutiable replacement for reality.
      • LunaSea 4y ago
        Well a simple response is that if you can feed yourself on virtual food you're creating something out of nothing.
  • marssaxman 4y ago
    The life I might want would involve a whole lot of wild nature and absolutely no advertising, among other things which might be difficult to synthesize in VR.
    • jstanley 4y ago
      You can have as much wild nature and as little advertising as you want. My vision isn't for a corporate-owned virtual prison. In my future the user is fully in control of their computer. You could have a much richer experience of nature in VR than you could ever have today. That you privilege "real" nature over the infinitely many possible "virtual" natures is a hangover of pre-metaverse thinking. It will only take a couple of generations for this kind of mindset to fade away.
      • marssaxman 4y ago
        All right, well - have fun with your project, I guess!