If you could live in a personalized simulation, would you stay?

[SomewhereAlongThe]

If you were allowed to program your own reality to your liking (wealth, looks, friends, etc) and live in it with simulation, would you give up on your suicidal ideation and stay? The only downside is nothing would be real in that simulated reality (the people, your girlfriend, etc) but you wouldn't know that. Everything would be just as good as the real thing.

 

[zulcywulcy]

If you were allowed to program your own reality to your liking (wealth, looks, friends, etc) and live in it with simulation, would you give up on your suicidal ideation and stay? The only downside is nothing would be real in that simulated reality (the people, your girlfriend, etc) but you wouldn't know that. Everything would be just as good as the real thing.

yes ofc

 

[soulessbunny]

Most definitely

 

[sevennn]

yes of course. i actually hope there is something like this after i die

 

[TheHolySword]

Honestly no. As weird as it is to say. I may not know it isn't reality but I feel like it's almost a worse fate for my loved ones. Death at least has some final closure. In a simulation I'm alive but totally unreachable. I don't think I could cope with something like that if someone I loved did it.

 

[Death is my goal]

no, surprised by the people saying yes, why would anyone want to live in a delusion/lie?

 

[RosebyAnyName]

No.

One, my biggest struggle anhedonia and being unable to enjoy things in life. Just because I could experience anything I wanted in a simulation doesn't mean I will have the mental capacity to enjoy it.

Two, my other biggest struggle is overstimulation. Being in a simulation where I get to be happy all the time would undoubtedly mess up my dopamine receptors beyond repair. I would definitely get to the point where absolutely nothing would make me happy no matter what because nothing would ever be good enough, just like how I was during all the worst points of my various addictions.

 

[yowai]

I don't know how I would deal with that on an existential level

 

[MiraiShisen]

yes at least one life to experience all the good I could not in this one , now its too late.

 

[needthebus]

probably not after a while. i feel too victimized over past events but its also hard to know.

 

[sevennn]

no, surprised by the people saying yes, why would anyone want to live in a delusion/lie?

its not hard to understand at all, i dont see what is so surprising about it. technically everything around you or me can be fake at this exact moment. but we will never know. we could already be in a simulation. just not in a good one

 

[dontwakemeup]

If you were allowed to program your own reality to your liking (wealth, looks, friends, etc) and live in it with simulation, would you give up on your suicidal ideation and stay? The only downside is nothing would be real in that simulated reality (the people, your girlfriend, etc) but you wouldn't know that. Everything would be just as good as the real thing.

Like the movie, Vanilla Sky. Of course I would! Please don't ever wake me up or tell me the truth!

no, surprised by the people saying yes, why would anyone want to live in a delusion/lie?

But we all already are doing this. We lie to everyone around that we're fine. We lie to our Dr about our SI. If you don't, I applaud your honesty and courage.

 

[Forever Sleep]

Not sure. I'd probably be happy to sample it at least. Maybe it would be like playing a game in 'sandbox' mode though. I've sometimes found that so unchallenging that it became boring in a short time. So, maybe this 'reality' would be the same. After all, I wouldn't deliberately choose a difficult setting! I suppose we could make it so that we got huge fulfilment out of achieving things. Anything.

It's pretty hard (I think) to imagine a reality that suits everyone (presumably, other 'real' beings populate it) that isn't in some way based on this (very flawed) reality.

So- for example- how do we get rid of the things that cause pain here? Can there be a reality that isn't competitive or exploitative but, people still feel a sense of achievement? Surely, choice is important but, some of the choices we make hurt others. Will death exist? If not then, can birth exist? Can this new reality sustain new life without death? Maybe it wouldn't feel 'off' if we only knew this new world. So- do we forget who we are now and, start from scratch? It still seems like too much effort to me. With too much potential for things to go wrong! Especially if we're in charge (and everyone realises it.)

 

[WorthlessTrash]

No. I want something real.

 

[davidtorez]

I'd still prefer nothingness/ non existence over a great simulation, but a simulation over my current reality

 

[FuneralCry]

I personally find existence to be deeply undesirable in every way possible, to be conscious in this existence will always be an terrible, torturous burden to me, I just don't wish to experience anything at all and I don't see any value to such, existence just feels like a cruel mistake to me, personally I just want peace instead of all this pointless suffering and I suffer simply from existing, I just want to cease existing and never suffer ever again.

 

[Emeralds]

No. It would be a waste of your life because it's not real. It wouldn't be as good as the real thing no matter how good the simulation is. I doubt someone would be happy for long. You would still know on some level that something was missing.

 

[ijustwishtodie]

No thanks. Me being in a simulation would only change my perception of reality, it wouldn't change reality itself. What I have an issue with is reality itself. Me being in a stimulated reality wouldn't change the fact that animals get brutally murdered or that lots of sentient beings are suffering every single second. Life just isn't about me, it's about every single sentient being on this planet

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

No I reject any kind of life / existence / consciousness

What I want is non-existence asap, non-existence forever asap

I know this existence is only my brain. There is no soul nor outside simulation nothing

Only this brain creates a kind of simulation already of a viewer that is able to be immersed in extreme torture . A brain that is capable of suffering unending constant unbearable pain : this is what we constantly are taught is wonderful beautiful important valuable sacred good. To me it's just that extreme torture it can produce at any moment, a horrific abomination.

 

[Forveleth]

This was my biggest problem with The Matrix movies. They made a simulation that was boring, old real life. Give me a world I can customize and I will be your human battery for free! So yes, the ability to make reality MY reality is the only thing that could keep me from CTB.

 

[kril]

No.

 

[MyTimeIsUp]

No, because it wouldn't be real. Fuck that.

 

[PlannedforPeru]

Is the simulation a lifetime or forever? (Not related but since you brought it up: Could I be made to know that it's not real?)

Assuming it is forever, an eternity of paradise would eventually become boring if it's still experienced as a human, I'd have to hope it somehow transcends biological mechanisms.

If I could opt out at any time with a snap of my fingers then sure, that alone would be enough to accept the offer.

 

[L'absent]

Absolutely not. I care nothing about human existence and even less about its lies. The world remains the crap it is. I don't need an additional veil of maya.