Think Matrix. . .
If you could wear a helmet that put you into a blissful simulation, while affluent overlords used your body for labor, pumped in nutrients, managed your reproductive needs, and killed you when everything started falling apart, would you do it?
Isn’t that close to what they do now, except we have to feed ourselves and there’s no magic hat?
Yeah, pretty much.
If there were a magic hat that made your life Heaven, while your body worked subconsciously, would you wear it?
AI with 3D Facebook glasses it going into that direction!
This question reminds me of the time someone in my engineering design class group asked the question “if you were hired to work at Lockheed Martin for a VERY good wage, would you take it?” and I was the only one out of the five of us that said no.
Everyone has a price. If your price is the love of your life and an eternity to live with her, where everything you want is procured – would you work at Lockheed Martin if they could provide that?
I would. I’d just make sure to sabotage them as much as I could without them taking this away from me.
No. I already have that in reality tho I guess. In a “what about” world where this is true, I would not work for Lockheed Martin. This comment makes me a little sad cuz I can tell it’s a little personal and you said “her” … pretty specific dude! Don’t work at LM for some pussy man we’re all better than that!
No. I want bliss that i have to claw and bleed and wrest from the earth with my teeth. I want the misery too
This is it.
You’re just using different words to describe wage-labour.
Let me dust off some British journals where governors debate how many women are needed to be sent to colonies to maintain order.
Probably no, because I value freedom and truth a lot.
But on the other hand I’m aaterialist and from my point of view choice is just an illusion because the universe seems to be deterministic. That makes the so called freedom kind of meaningless because you don’t choose anything.
what if you are the overlord yourself? i.e. you manage your own life, kind of like in a video game. but also you’re in a (different) simulation at the same time. yeah, confusing, i know.
That’s basically:
Hang the DJ - Episode of Black Mirror (S4 E4)
Depends what my left behind husk is labouring for. If this is the grand plan for humanity - we all go into a simulated utopia and leave our bodies behind to maintain it - sure. If it’s for something evil, nah.
If you could wear a helmet that put you into a blissful simulation, while affluent overlords used your body for labor, pumped in nutrients, managed your reproductive needs, and killed you when everything started falling apart, would you do it?
the entire western world is doing it right now. lol. the only difference is that our helmet is invisible because it’s made out of propaganda.
i’m pretty sure that most people wouldn’t. that is simply due to the reason that some kind of exotic overlord cannot be trusted with my actual wellbeing.
we all know how capitalism goes. it starts well, until they decide that you’re no longer of use, at which point they dispose of you. and that’s exactly what would happen in this case. so no.
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No, I have a family
Why would you ask th…?
Ohhhhh… I get it. It’s a rhetorical question.
Okay, so where’s the button to turn this thing off?
You’re not fooling me AI agent KI4JGT!
