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OldWorldRevival t1_j51eoyl wrote

Reply to comment by phaedrux_pharo in Instead of escaping to virtual realities, what if we just made our reality as good as any virtual reality could be? by [deleted]

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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