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?

  • lars
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    1 year ago

    Of course, but I’d still want to contribute to the real world. Luckily my contributions are non physical, so I could work from VR. And I’d have to log out occasionally to exercise.

      • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyzOP
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        1 year ago

        Unless the machine you’re connected to somehow stimulates your muscles so that they don’t athrope then exercise is probably one of the few things you couldn’t do in VR. The reason is the same why you can’t exercise in your dreams either.

        You can do the activity ofcourse and it feels like working out but it does not translate to physical gains in your real body.

        • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          What are you talking about? Just because you’re wearing a headset doesn’t mean you can’t move your body. You’d have to have weights in the real world to use weights in VR, but even if you didn’t, you could do planks, push ups, and various other excersises on the real floor you’re standing on.