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OldWorldRevival t1_j515it4 wrote

Reply to comment by AGI_69 in Instead of escaping to virtual realities, what if we just made our reality as good as any virtual reality could be? by [deleted]

Yes... but that's missing the point.

The point is that you can experience a lot of things, but they're just things at the end of the day, without substance.

I'm saying that VR is just a other meaningless, more advanced entertainment system.

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AGI_69 t1_j516ntf wrote

>VR is just a other meaningless, more advanced entertainment system

It's just lack of imagination to say, that all possible VR's are meaningless.

As I've said, we probably live in simulation right now, and I would say it's not the only meaningful simulation possible.

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OldWorldRevival t1_j5174df wrote

Did you read what I said about living in a simulation in my OP?

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AGI_69 t1_j518khe wrote

>Sort of an aside, but I wanted to get ahead of the "we could live in the
matrix already" people as if I haven't deeply probed that question...
heh.

You didn't really address the argument. I am sorry, but you can't remove arguments, by simply mentioning them.

Nothing in laws of physics says, that this "reality" cannot be fully simulated at human perception resolution. Why can't there be large scale simulations with billions of people and be meaningful ? To me, I think there is lack of imagination in saying "All possible VR's are not meaningful"

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gantork t1_j519krg wrote

You might think entertainment is meaningless but that's not the case for everyone.

If in the future I can go explore Pandora in full dive VR, live there for a while and enjoy the beautiful environments from the movies as if they were real, that would no doubt be a meaningful or even transcendental experience for me, probably something I'd remember the rest of my life.

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