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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dakkareth" data-source="post: 2630148" data-attributes="member: 9928">The Matrix.Most people spend their lives in simulations, linked together in worlds from the mundane, to the insane. They enter willingly, have their awareness of their situation (that they're just playing an extremely advanced game) temporarily suppressed if they want, and start living there. Want to be an aristocrat in the 17th century? No problem, you'll be put together with the other wanna-be nobles or history freaks. Want to be the richest man in the 23rd century? Bingo, there you have your sci-fi world and unlimited money in your account. Want to be a savage warrior in a world ruled by dragons and gods, where magic is real and you are the only one who can stop The End? Uplink to DnD-World #12789 created, meet your fellow adventurers.Or maybe you simply want to live in a world you understand, interact with humans instead of computers, who are so much smarter than you it isn't even funny. Then you go into the Matrix, the main world of the simulation. Suppression of reality-awareness is optional, but any role-breaking is editted out - the others simply don't hear you saying 'you know that this is just a simulation, right?'.This assumes, that the AIs are benevolent, of course.And I really need to get Kurtzweil's books. His works have influenced me greatly through their secondary expressions, but I've never read them directly ...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /></blockquote>

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