Lets assume we develop the capacity to create virtual worlds that are near indistinguishable from the real world. We hook you up into a machine and you now find yourself in what effectively is a paraller reality where you get to be the king of your own universe (if you so desire). Nothing is off limits - everything you’ve ever dreamt of is possible. You can be the only person there, you can populate it with unconscious AI that appears consciouss or you can have other people visit your world and you can visit theirs aswell as spend time in “public worlds” with millions of other real people.

Would you try it and do you think you’d prefer it over real world? Do you see it as a negative from individual perspective if significant part of the population basically spend their entire lives there?

  • Corhen@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Reminds me of a short story, where a girl is sent to a VR planet, for robots studying humans

    There she has a… VR coffin, which she slowly learns can perfectly simulate reality, or the AI will send probes for her to experience things in reality.

    She eventually realizes that they will make perfect human proxies, and starts to plan her escape from her VR coffin

    Wish I could remember the name!