Would Living in Full-Dive VR Count as Failure? A Provocative Take
VraserX · x · 2026-09-28
VraserX poses a philosophical question for the AGI/VR era: if full-dive VR offered a life you loved — friends could join, you could learn and build, experience a pain-free body, leave anytime, with outside responsibilities covered — would staying there really count as failure?
He argues calling such a life "fake" is too easy, and challenges readers to name an experience they'd still insist on having outside if the simulation felt identical.
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