If you could spend one month fully immersed in a virtual world in order to acquire an important skill that would take one year to learn IRL, but you would not be allowed to meet or interact with anyone *real* during that one month, would you do it?
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Replying to @TheAnnaGat
Is this another way of asking, "would you sacrifice for what you want?" If one isn't social, maybe it's not a sacrifice. Is the experience very unpleasant? If so, how does it allow such rapid learning? Is it permanently damaging? If so, it seems generally unwise.
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Replying to @kareem_carr @TheAnnaGat
That being said, many people have historically socially isolated themselves to enhance their learning or for deep mental work. It's not VR, but there is probably a reason people think of places like colleges, monasteries and retreats as not the 'real' world.
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Replying to @kareem_carr @TheAnnaGat
Yea. I read this as what PhDLife felt like very often.
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