It's a game, that is the context.

Games train you in useful, transferable skills.

I disagree with the notion that one should replace their real life with an unreal life on the internet.

Additionally, I used to play WoW myself, and every time I did, I was always the least healthy and was more unhappy overall than ever.

Which is why I now seek to extract what is so enthralling about games like WoW and pull that into the real world, while not eliminating games or virtual experiences.

Like, imagine if we built ironforge under the Colorado rockies, and linked it up with Khazad dum! Heh. That would be physically possible with artificial superintelligence. Then we could drink beer under the mountain, swordfight and party after a day doing things like crafting real things that fit that environment.

It's just that I think there is real value in the real, and supposing that we are in a sort of matrix only motivates me to want to try to break past a layer in such a matrix.