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by Handwash 4043 days ago
They should test for hopelessness. If you put yourself in a simulation, you know that you will get out of it eventually. That gives hope and motivates you to keep going. In real-life scenario, you might be on Mars without possibility of going back.
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I think that is a certainty for the first generations. Simulating that on Earth would be a legal nightmare though.