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To: ctdonath2
Imagine you are very wealthy or a scientist with special knowledge. It's the future and VR has been advanced to the point that it is almost identical to reality.

Every time you go to sleep and then wake up, you can never be certain that you have woken to reality, or were drugged while asleep and then inserted into a VR contraption.

You could wake up and walk to the office and engage in a meeting discussing corporate confidential secrets only to realize that you were in a VR machine and just gave all your company secrets to a competitor.

Similar scenarios if you have important knowledge or you're just a wealthy person with a Swiss bank account.

It will be some time before that happens and there might be countermeasures.

Some of this was gone over in Inception and other sci-fi movies/books/etc.

This all plays into the current notion that we all might be part of some sophisticated computer simulation.

VR within VR within VR.

Interesting to contemplate, but generally more depressing than illuminating.

7 posted on 10/12/2016 12:19:09 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

More like: standard neo-luddite hysteria.
I’ve seen it for decades over nearly every major new technology.
Conceivable yes, but practically preposterous.


10 posted on 10/12/2016 1:15:21 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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