Would you want to live forever in an infinite game?

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• Pratai@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not alone. No.

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• ngwoo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is more of less the plot of No Man’s Sky and the answer is no no no no no

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• spacegoat@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Depends on a lot of factors like if my pleasure receptors can be programmatically stimulated

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• Toasticus@piefed.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No.

  That’s why I don’t play MMOs and that’s why I have a hard time enjoying Minecraft. There can be such a thing as ‘too much’.

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• farmgineer@nord.pub ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Absolutely not. I didn’t want to be alive in the first place, don’t particularly enjoy being alive, and would certainly not want to do it again.

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• random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Eternal existence without end would be a worst possible nightmare for any sentient entity.

  So no, never.

  There’s still a chance that universe has a sick sense of humor and quantum immortality is real and I really don’t have a choice.

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  • director@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There’s a provision for choosing to opt out of the simulation in that document - I agree that existence without the option to cease is torture.

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• thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This is a question about real life and death, isn’t it? Not about the death inside a virtual reality. I’m a bit confused with the question. If that is the question, then there is no infinite time and resources. So one day everyone will die (according to our current knowledge of physics). I also don’t think that we can out live our death by copying something to digital representation. Because we are not “transported”, but die and make a copy, a new object. It is not the same atoms and composition, it is just a similar looking object interpreted and run by a different algorithm.

  So when I die and a "perfect’ copy of my brain is uploaded to a server, then I’m dead. The copy of myself is just a program using my brain structure and memories to act like I would, but I’m dead, and this program is just a representation and interpretation of my intelligence – but it’s not me. Therefore it is not possible to live forever.

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  • nyctre@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The question is “would” not “will”. It’s a conditional and a longer form of the question would’ve been something along the lines of “if it were realistically possible, would you like to live forever in an afterlife such as this?”

    For me the answer is yes. I’d like to have the option to kill myself in case I ever get bored or whatever, but I’d still take it even if I had to risk an eternity of insanity.

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    • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If you understood my answer, then it is “Its not possible”. This is not about “realistically or theoretically”, it is impossible. So any copy of the information that builds you inside of a computer, is not you. Therefore the question doesn’t make sense. No one can live inside a computer.

      I’d like to have the option to kill myself in case

      You are already dead. What you want is, that the machine code representing you (which is not you) should have an option to be killed.

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  • director@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    But what if you started as a simulated entity? (If it’s possible to simulate reality as we know it then it’s more likely we exist within a simulation of some sort rather than the “prime” reality.)

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    • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It does not matter, any copy is still not you. The exact, let’s say down to the atom (and lets ignore if consciousness is emergent from atoms), copy of yourself can be created. It would be still a copy. It’s like taking the Mona Lisa painting and recreating it to 100% identical atom structure. It’s still a copy. So when you die, you die. You do not exist in the simulation, a new entity living with your identity in a different place.

      Also if you had a copy of yourself, how is it aging? Because the atoms and your genetic is programmed to age. Do you change that in the program? If you do so, the copy of yourself is no longer a copy, so it cannot age.

      If you want ignore these aspects, then there is another problem. When would the copy of yourself would be made? Just before you die? Then that state is what lives forever? Do you make multiple copies of yourself? Which one is you? Can all exist at the same time?

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