SoylentRox t1_j539guq wrote
The simplest answer in one sentence: there are many things humans would like where it requires an imbalance of fairness.
For example, this is why MMOs feel so lame to play. Your character cannot be a superhero because everyone else who plays the game doesn't want to feel week
A single player RPG is often balanced where you can be a superhero, or find exploits to get power armor in the first 20 minutes or kill a dragon, etc. Exploits that won't be patched because the game developers know you will find this fun.
Some humans are going to want to live in a palace with a thousand servants and a large harem. It's not possible in the real world without some extreme wealth inequality, and even then, by definition just 1 person gets to be the king and 10k humans have to be servants or harem members.
In VR everyone can be the king.
Or take the world of John Wick. It's fun to be john wick, it is not fun for everyone else in the films.
OldWorldRevival t1_j53lcjb wrote
> In VR everyone can be the king.
I support the right for people to make this choice, but I also do not endorse it as a choice in the way that I actually support widespread drug legalization, but I don't condone the use of hard drugs.
I believe it is psychologically unhealthy, and moreover, separating oneself from one's human form is going to carry a great many epistemological risks.
SoylentRox t1_j53m851 wrote
Probably but suit yourself, square. Basically if it ever comes down to it even in a sorta utopia there is only so much you can experience. Especially as in reality you are still mortal. Even if you had a cortical stack getting resurrected from backup is probably unpleasant.
In VR your body can be in a very safe place, constantly tended by AI robotics who do medical procedures you won't be able to feel as needed - including lots of preventative surgery - and you can experience a lot of things, many of which would be very hazardous to experience in reality.
StarChild413 t1_j54sw6z wrote
Not everyone wants to even metaphorically be the king but that doesn't mean they'd be content settling for servitude to someone who does
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