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The Meaning of Life in the Metaverse (with David Chalmers)

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

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Is There Something Special About Physical Reality?

We might feel that we don't need to get off planet, because you can go to many, many planets within the virtual domain. W strong suspicion is that there will always be something special about physical reality,. even when votual realities are somehow sensorily, in some ways better. But also, all these vitual worlds, these votual environments, are going to be grounded in the physical environment. There all goig to be running on computers which exist somewhere in the physical world. So it's going to matter who controls the a who controls thephysical world. We'd better not neglect the physical world, because the physical worlds can have to be in good shape to support good virtual worlds

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