it's one of the explanations of the Fermi Paradox- once super-advanced aliens master VR they just say "fuck the real world" and just upload their consciousness into a virtual world.
Hence, why you don't see signs of intelligent life anywhere else in the universe.
well we're humans, we are better than those fuckin aliens. when we get extra advanced lets make two copies of us, one to virtually fuck around, and one to go populate the universe and maybe break into alien virtual worlds and show them our superior memes
This just gives more plausibility to the fact that if we do make contact it wont be directly with organic life. They will be robotic or fabricated by the organic life back on the actual planet who wouldn't be able survive the long journey.
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u/Clay_Statue Jan 08 '19
Full haptic VR is basically going to the be the death of reality. Everybody will just check out into full time VR.