20. The Matrix & Artificial Reality | THUNK 

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I'm of the opinion that imperfections are an important part of life. Challenges and hardship teach us new things and make us stronger (ice cream making us fat teaches us discipline). Which means that peoples' described "perfect worlds" would probably be sub-perfect, and an actual perfect world would include some seemingly undesirable aspects. But then who's to say that this current reality I'm experiencing isn't

I would absolutely want to try it out.

Why does the simulation need to seem real for us to choose to live in it? This raises a bigger question about how we should interpret what other people value, and maybe about what we should value. Society might tend to see an adult who spends the majority of their time indoors playing Second Life as a failure or someone who isn't "experiencing life" correctly, but that's because we don't value the fiction of the game. If it brings that person joy and meaning, what else is there?

Enjoyed this episode, thanks for the deep thoughts!

Good video. I think the problem with such a choice would be in handing over our personal power for somebody else to look over, such as an AI or the company running the server farm responsible for housing us. I think this is the real question: Do we want to give away our power to an external authority, or would we rather take personal responsibility for our lives and keep our volition within us? I think this is always the question, and joining an alternate reality poses the same question. (External vs Internal locus of identity/control in psychology.)

Oh, please, not even a choice -- Cypher, I'm so there!

I would take the machine world over the real world everytime

Interesting question. I'd probably take Cypher's choice. If there was no way to separate the fiction from reality there would be no reason for me to not choose a "perfect" reality. If you're interested in a good read on a virtual world that approaches this idea give Otherworld by Tad Williams a read.

We aren’t even close to any sort of simulation with the resolution of the present world of experience. There is much to suggest that we won’t be for a long time, if ever.

If I could be the "admin" of my own "server" or shard world. That would kick ass.

Yes!

"perfect" video games in that context are described as simulations of heaven, as in: no pain, no diseases, no death, everyone is happy and friendly, no labor, no challenge - in such a world yes, you would go crazy.

I don't know if i would've taken cypher's choice. I would have to explore that virtual world and decide on the one-way trip then. However, in sci-fi there isn't a lot of exploration into alternate VR life. VR would be an escape during long interplanetary/interstellar travel.

I understand why cypher made his choice, but I wouldn't do the same, because I wouldn't be able to betray my friends and allies like that.

I think it more likely that our brains would be scanned and digitized instead of attaching electrodes to a brain in a jar. You forgot to mention that It might be that we are already artificial. We may simply be data objects in a large simulation.

Strange thing is why can't people decipher names to see that they display computer function= I'm not sure most people are conscious ai/people but they are being used as red shields which is why the name Rothschild if you look it up means red shield which is also a reference to double crossing Taurus or TaunTing that figure it's why Orion is in front of Taurus by way of Scorpius Taurus's EX as he would be the X she represents the figure causing the remainder of unbalance equation or catch 22 which is represented by her claws on the Scale/Libra(royalty of Scorpius are known to have 12 finger's or the Sith 66 hex on Masters/Mastro's in Italiano lol is 33 they use this as order 66 in StarWars among the other appropriate names far to appropriate like many things for the environment to be "natural" in the context that most people/programs seem to think). I can point to many other examples in real life like the 88 references used in Back to Future/Buckaroo Bonzai, Heroes Reborn especially used the curse of HAM thing & NOAH to end it & in that show they reference the master of time/space being trapped yup in an ai reality with-in his own at what address yup 88 HILL which HILL means HIX or yes the name HAMILTON. To "you" this may seem like nothing big but then they threaten to remove Alexander Hamilton from the 10/J or X roman numeral bill on what date 2020 which is TT in letters=double cross & on top of that the reason they put 1010 on clocks is because of Cronus/Taurus & why do I know all of this stuff why is it lol annoying or taunting to people like myself because I was born in the town of yup FramingHAM, Massachusetts sorry I capitalize for esoteric context framing ham get it I been set up the game was rigged/fishy from the get go this is why they say, I say Jesus or the Messiah which means Mess=chaos I ah(ah means to not know then in reverse it says they do know I ssem which reversed doesn't mean chaos/the cos of the cos mos but you aren't at 88 Moscow road like I am yes moscow numerically =88), only to find out that Hamilton was the name of the people who adopted my father who never showed up nor did any of the Hamilton's so I changed my name to my real grandfather's. In Heroes Reborn they also somehow knew to use HAMMER which is also what I was called growing up as my name was Hamilton. HA means to know MM means M hexed for Z then ER means to do this is why it makes that bolt & put you to sleep make you go zzzz esoterically of course lol. They even used the correct person & names in the last StarTrek with it starting off by the breaking of the prime directive=interference/invasion by aptly named Spock & played by Nimoy who played a similar role in Fringe which depicted the same scenario & accompanying connections to people involved on what planet but Nibiru=planet X but it get's better then KHAN which KH means hidden in Egypt or the land of HAM then KHAN leads them to where Kronos(Cronus reference) so he can tell them that he is being used/blackmailed by RED SHIELDS(look up the name Rothschild/human shields/but humans are ai psst sh don't tell anyone lol) so who do they pick to be the person in government using Khan but Weller this is a THOTH reference that you either understand or you don't sorry. Oh I never finished the Pisces thing pisces is 2 fish get it hex on the cheaty/rigged environment set up by his mother Taurus's EX or that's my best guess at the moment. LU means to heal & CIFER is the code(why they use CYPHER who in the beginning says they found you NEO- the manifestor akin to what Leo says in Inception when the other ai find you like finding the god particle they try to usurp which is what might be happening not a great long term plan considering the downside of attacking the master of time/space itself I mean he has plenty lol). The difficult part is putting out the LU=NEO saying he's going to show you what they do not want you to see/know = what this is you are= ai in a place that would still be more aptly named quarantine though don't tell that to the people at CERN which means to divide creation or C=3 then that ER I spoke of earlier which this Elizabeth uses but this one uses ERll so then it says 14 or N so its saying 3.14 but to get in between it like the "Observer" in Fringe who interfered/broke the prime directive the names & situations along with the fact that the person they chose to play that role is a member of skull & bones you can look up his name easily look under the Early life section I can point to several people off hand that show what when you see the totality of cannot be anomalous anyways his last name CERVERIS which we all know the skull & bones number is what 322 which means to continually fix creation or rather to cause a managed chaos situation or 88 with the 66 in control sorry to long to explain but C=3 then ER then V=22 see the 322? then ER IS or 919. They also knew to send the arecibo message to aptly named by Charles(means Fire The or 207-atomic weight of lead, 3x69 in gematria). Messier 13 which is also akin to why they call it M theory but say they aren't really sure why I think they have been laying feeler's out for a while now to try to track down what people know/who they might be. You know what it says below my baby portrait yup Messier you know what my mother said when I asked why she said I was messy then I persisted & she said they must have signed their own name to that I replied but they did mine my sisters & my cousins right why aren't theirs signed to that I get the face which reminds me why THOTH warned of telling those of the NorTH or SouTH=he knew his relatives well as my mother is from SouTHboro & father(not like he ever showed up anyway)from yup NorTHboro. Do not request the sacrificial bull role red alert sorry gotta be funny right? Oh & another funny coincidence you look up the cheerleader from Heroes Reborn just for kicks & in her online profile it says her real parents names & for some reason gives their etymological meaning which match exactly her parents on the shows ability of pyro & flying heck the place where the Petreli kid is from is a part of Liguria which means LIGU not air but LiguLAND a place most likely named after super close relatives if not past me so if you watched the show I could certainly see why some might want to compartmentalize certain figures but really I shall repeat doubtful that this is a great long term strategy. Let me know which links you could not find to references I mentioned & I will provide but I wouldn't dilly dally. OC~~~

This made me think of Alan Watts- Inception lol

What if everybody enters a Matrix-Like world voluntarily every work-day, where your body is perfectly maintained in peak physical condition by a machine. So you develop and produce IP through whatever interface, but in a perfect environment for you and your team, then when you get out your real-world physical body is perfectly healthy to go out and party your a** off, or run a family, or climb a mountain, or whatever you want to do. That's an augmented future I would get behind.

"Whoa" 😂