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phaedrux_pharo t1_j51e2tz wrote

If my choices are

"Literally anything I want, but in VR"

Or

"Some rando who thinks they know what's "best" for me in the real world"

I'll take my VR every time. You don't get to decide what my perfect world is, and you certainly shouldn't be deciding for everyone else.

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OldWorldRevival t1_j51eoyl wrote

But I don't, and my concern about VR is that it's going to be the new heroin, but way, way more irreversible with much deeper consequences.

I.e. what if a bad actor controls this system, and then makes you feel the worst pain imaginable, slowing your perception of time down so that each second is like a year and you suffer like this until the heat death of the universe?

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The-Goat-Soup-Eater t1_j54jyna wrote

I think if we can have that kind of VR we’ll likely have figured out the brain itself. You wouldn’t be safe from that in the real world either, unfortunately

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