[echelon]

Just wait until we simulate old films and media and turn them into living, breathing VR games.

We'll eventually do that for all of history. At least the history we have samples of or can plausibly recreate.

I'd imagine playing one of those might be like living your life right now. Punctuated by lots of mundane, lifelike moments. Like reading an "internet forum" full of other period appropriate "humans".

[mc32]

Sounds a bit dystopian where people are living in what amount to a synthetic reality. At that point reality’s importance decreases and at some point the virtual reality becomes the more normal existence and people eschew actual reality. And at some point you think why not virtualize all experience and then life itself…