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Are we living in a simulation?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Is Virtual Reality a Distopia?

Virtual reality could be wonderful, it could be awful. It's easy to see all kinds of ways in which it can potentially go wrong. One is the model where virtual realities are entirely run by corporations that dominate our lives. But yet another possible distopia is the one you mention: just living out our life as a form of entertainment. Whether we'll end up in more like the utopia or tha utopia, i have no idea,. You knoww a lot of the time it's awful, it's distopian. Maybe it's got prospects for utopia. If so, i'd say the same for virtual reality. Yes, i guess my view is neither utopian nor dit

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