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Replying to @JesseNichols and @nabeelqu
I think it has to be good. Safety of the real world can be largely ensured if you take a Feynman, "there's plenty of room at the bottom" stance towards VR/XR.
Yes, the metaverse rn is cringe, yes the tech has a long way to go until The Matrix.
![- In the case of [[moral philosophy]], the empiricist and justificationist misconceptions are often expressed in the maxim that โyou canโt derive an ought from an isโ (a paraphrase of a remark by the Enlightenment philosopher David Hume). It means that moral theories cannot be deduced from factual knowledge. This has become conventional wisdom, and has resulted in a kind of dogmatic despair about morality: โyou canโt derive an ought from an is, therefore morality cannot be justified by reasonโ. That leaves only two options: either to embrace unreason or to try living without ever making a moral judgement. Both are liable to lead to morally wrong choices, just as embracing unreason or never attempting to explain the physical world leads to factually false theories (and not just ignorance).
- [Moral philosophy]([[moral philosophy]]) is basically about the problem of what to do next โ and, more generally, what sort of life to lead, and what sort of world to want. Some philosophers confine](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhZpwvvUcAAYpAt?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
