> like your mentality, OP. I have absolutely no idea how it works and I think I disagree with it on a really fundamental level, but it's at least very different from the usual redditor fare, and it's making me think really damn hard.
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>they exceed others and these “dummies” pretending to be real people with boring lives or bad jobs give YOU a sense of superiority, jobbers as they are called in wrestling
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>I think you are overestimating how much people think about each other's lives.
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>I can see humans retreating into video games for other reasons, like, maybe you want to be able to hit on anyone and always be accepted or something. But purely to see other people have sadder lives than you? No, that in itself isn't a fantasy that I've ever seen video games sell. A better, more significant life than you have right now, absolutely, but not comparing your character to NPCs.
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>But okay, you sure do mow down a lot of mooks in some games, and that means that your life is clearly more important than theirs. Fair enough: A multiplayer game where one player is the hero and the others are grunts that go down in a few seconds wouldn't be very interesting.
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>... and I guess I'll grant you that. I'd have to do some work to probe out the distinction to really figure out the difference, but I do think it's there. Well. At least now, Maybe future video game technology will change what experiences are fun, and it turns out that people do enjoy games where they compare themselves to NPCs with shitty jobs.

Thank you for hearing me out.

I believe my writings are a coping mechanism I have developed, it is nothing more than a manic episode at heart really to keep myself occupied in case I would try to commit suicide, I live in Ukraine and the thought of wasting my ears and not achieving optimal potential is a torture to me.

I like to believe that some people truly are happy, and I'm just a background character. Beautiful people with beautiful ideas, and that one day I too could exist in such reality through VR.

But my health is not in great SHAPE and perhaps if I treat myself this idea this post will become irrelevant.

What about a memory wipe that would make all of your experience feel you just have been born again?

Would that make VR interesting as 50 or 60-year-old something human?

Now you are talking my language, brotendo.

You want his this ranch?

You need to get dyson spherical instead of ray kurzwelian my fucking mulatto.

What are the benefits of this "me"?

You define your world through suffering and scarcity, and when something good happens, you either become arrogant or afraid of taking it in?

What is the value of your face or ideas if it is just a select combination of phenotypes and ideas that you heard from a friend or family member.

And don't get me started on the prenatal development that you can't even alter because your consciousness has not yet developed.

So I ask again, why stay in this preplanned life when you could give in to the possibility of something far more flexible?

Well, give an option and we will make a conclusion. If I want Gothic or Skyrim. Or what about adjusted difficulty slider that you are not aware of ? Some people call it God's plan, so why rationalize it like that?

You kill far more foes in Fallout than they kill you. You are infinitely more important than some other NPCs.

John Wick does more harm than done to him.

Some people have more success than others with no drawbacks.

It's all about the non player characters and the role they play in the story for you or our entertainment, just like it is a hierarchy in real life.

Think of the philosophical zombie. They say that they fell pleasure, you believe them and that gives pleasure to you while in reality they felt nothing just like the programming intended.

You don't get it. We are talking about a world with flaws where you are desired and perceived as valuable.

You don't get the one tenth of fame and fortune that certain people get.

So instead of wishing for constant pleasure as you put it, why not create a world that is flawed, terrible even and make yourself the “one”.

Video games and films follow the same logic, it's not about fairness, it's about being a head of the curve.

What’s your social position in life? Got good mental health and money, well, others don’t. Your stability is based on the instability of others.

How do you know if it's real?

Like I get that the world is limiting, and all that, but maybe we are just in a far shittier simulation?

Like this earth 1.0 and another is like 2.0 where we can fly and stuff.

Again, I believe it's about perceived pleasure and hierarchy that one occupies in the society. If you are of lower classes escapism is key if you are of higher classes then your servants have limitations as well, it seems that VR could bring benefits to both parties.

I think Neo from Matrix was in another simulation like that. He is a hero in a world of suffering, the rebel everyone needs, the “One”. Does that not sound like a VR simulation? As long as he felt good and had this perceived sense of danger and payoff, it does not matter if it’s real or not. And what about Cypher? This “guy” (again part of the simulation) was dragged by Morpheus in to the "real" world to live in crap while getting his girlfriend stolen. So it would be natural for him to go back to Matrix. It’s actually kind of cruel that people don’t want others to escape in to VR, means that their misery will have less company. Are alcohol and drugs not a form of escapism, just because they are wildly used? Vagaries of perception, Mr Anderson.

VR allows everyone to have their own perceived paradise. It's all about the journey rather than the destination.

I know that this steak is not real, my mind is telling me that it is juicy and delicious, and you know what I realized? Ignorance is bliss!

So this is just going to be groundhog day until AGI finally takes the most optimal approach? Sounds to me like a lot of research for the sake of research.

>BCI

Now, that's, a cool story for a Neverending Story remake.

I mean, those “80s style” videos don't have actors, costumer designers, camera operators. They were created in a simulation with no actual human contacts. That is honestly enough for me to believe that reality ain't everything it's cranked to be.

Well in that case if I take this life as an “experiment” it's not as bad, again I'm starting to believe it more and more. But at the same time, this thing kind of sucks TBH.

You mean I'm part of it, or is it getting tested somewhere in the labs of Area 51)?

The more this tech develops, the more I'm inclined to believe that. But I just want to have a change of pace. Like for 1 week or 1 day. Fully simulated VR games in which I'm dissociated to the point I don't remember my previous self.

You know what I want? To live a couple of lifetimes in that thing. With different backgrounds and time periods. Maybe a life in the streets hustling or alone in the monastery dedicating myself to God. Seeing all aspects of this “life”.

Then maybe we will have a population reduction?

Most people are not “essential personal”. They live off capital created by other people or corporations. One man can have billions of dollars while others will clock at 200k in his lifetime. So when their job get's taken away, they won't comprehend the idea.