Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

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

Mar 23, 2022

50:45

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Designing Pain in a Virtual World

02:13

Is There a Difference Between Physical Reality and Virtual Reality?

02:12

Virtual Reality Technology Is Something We're Constructing

01:30

Introduction

3min

Are We Moving From Science Fiction to Technology?

2min

Is There a Human Capacity to Understand Reality?

2min

The Metaverse and Second Life

2min

Is There a Difference Between Physical Reality and Virtual Reality?

2min

Virtual Reality Technology Is Something We're Constructing

2min

Is There a Metaverse?

2min

What Do You Need in a Virtual World?

2min

Is There a Common Physical Space?

2min

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How Are We Going to Express Our Identities in the Metaverse?

2min

11.

Designing Pain in a Virtual World

2min

12.

Should the Corporations Design Virtual Worlds?

2min

13.

Are We Going to Have a Virtual Society?

3min

14.

Is There a Potential for Abundance in Virtual Worlds?

3min

15.

Is Scarcity Important in Virtual Worlds?

2min

16.

Are There Any Mechanisms of Inequality in a Virtual World?

3min

17.

Artificial General Intelligence

2min

18.

Machine Learning

2min

19.

Y Science Transforms Philosophical Questions

3min

20.

Is There a Moral Issue With Bot Flags?

3min

21.

Adapting the Brain to Virtual Reality

2min

22.

Is There Something Special About Physical Reality?

2min

23.

Are You a Simulator?

2min

We could soon be living more of our lives in immersive virtual worlds, but what will that look like and how will it affect us? New York University professor of philosophy and neural science David Chalmers joins Azeem Azhar to discuss what the metaverse might offer us, the moral quandaries it could pose, and what our rights there might look like.

They also address:

What the consequences of wrongdoing in the metaverse might be.
How governance and society could develop in virtual worlds.
The philosophical precedents for virtual worlds.

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David Chalmers

Further resources:

Azeem’s 2022 Trends: Web 3.0, Sci-Fi Tech, and the Metaverse – Exponential View podcast, 2022
What Studying Consciousness Can Reveal about AI and the Metaverse (with Anil Seth) – Exponential View podcast, 2022
Reality+, by David Chalmers

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