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monsieurpooh t1_j9pcoov wrote

Reply to comment by AwesomeDragon97 in Is ASI An Inevitability Or A Potential Impossibility? by AnakinRagnarsson66

Can you explain why?

To be clear I'm talking about actual perfect VR like the Matrix with all 5 senses, not the crap that passes as "VR" today where parkour is impossible, swordfighting is terribly unrealistic because your enemies are required to be ragdolls, and don't even get me started on Judo/wrestling.

A true direct-to-brain VR will be indistinguishable from the real world and, if the user wants, better than the real world in every way. There are 1-2 legit reasons why you would still want to use the real world, but just wanted to make sure your reason wasn't that the real world is more sensory-rich or "feels more real", which won't be the case with advanced technology.

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Nanaki_TV t1_j9q0oib wrote

Maybe he's scared of not being able to determine if he woke up in the VR or not. Speculating but damn now I'm kinda freaking myself out. If the ASI wanted to enslave humanity, you go into the Matrix for fun but "leave" into a different Matrix. Kinda cool premise for a book. Probably already done too ha

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monsieurpooh t1_j9q9xsl wrote

That is an interesting idea, even without the evil AI villain. There was an episode in that Electric Sheep tv show that explored this; I think it was the first or second episode. Of course black mirror also had brilliant ideas about VR but I think this one explored that idea even better than Black Mirror.

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AwesomeDragon97 t1_j9qdtmo wrote

I wouldn’t use VR even if it was indistinguishable from the real world because I believe we should focus on making the real world a better place rather than creating a fake world and being at the mercy of whoever hosts the servers.

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