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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 83 points 6 months ago (7 children)

This is one of the theories that explain why we don't hear anyone else in our galactic neighborhood.

Civilizations just develop highly sophisticated digital worlds that they can just live in in complete bliss forever or until their system degrades and falls apart in millions of years.

We could be surrounded light years in every direction by perverts having infinite fun with tentacle hentai porn in their perfect digital world and they will never know or want to know that we even exist.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago (6 children)

But on earth that won't work because Apple and Facebook don't allow tentacle hentai on their VR headsets.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 20 points 6 months ago

Either these companies will die out because they won't accept tentacle hentai or new companies will take their place to offer tentacle hentai .... whatever happens, we will get our tentacle hentai and never explore the universe.

[–] xionzui@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Like that’s going to stop me

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 6 months ago

I can get tentacle hentai on my Quest just fine.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

It will never be a utopia, because those companies will use it to extract your thoughts, and pump relevant ads directly into your brain. Also, you'll forget to pay your subscription and you'll wake up in hell.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

Civilizations just develop highly sophisticated digital worlds that they can just live in in complete bliss forever or until their system degrades

If I want to be blissed out until my body falls apart, I can do that now by turning my retirement account into a stockpile of fentanyl. I don't think its presumed that intelligent civilizations all just do this, for the same reason I don't believe modern human civilization will collapse on itself simply because we've discovered opium.

We could be surrounded light years in every direction by perverts having infinite fun with tentacle hentai porn in their perfect digital world and they will never know or want to know that we even exist.

We struggle to confirm the existence of a ninth planet while. We're living in a solar system at the rural edge of the galaxy and we just found out black holes exist. Would we know what an advanced civilization would even look like?

We haven't even fully ruled out life on Mars, ffs. There could be a layer under the cloud system of Jupiter, Uranus, or Neptune that's absolutely teaming with life. The Great Space Whale Migration of Proxima Centauri could be happening right now and we'd never have a clue.

Do not sell the galaxy spanning race of sentient porn-loving starfish short just yet.

[–] Kedly@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Tbf, turning your retirement account into pure bliss with Fentanyl greeeaaaatly reduces the amount of time you get to be blissed out. This hypothetical future likely had found a way to reach permanent bliss with as few downsides as possible

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This hypothetical future likely had found a way to reach permanent bliss

Might want to look up The Problem With Paradise

[–] Restaldt@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I hear they paved it and put up a parking lot

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[–] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If I want to be blissed out until my body falls apart, I can do that now by turning my retirement account into a stockpile of fentanyl. I don't think its presumed that intelligent civilizations all just do this, for the same reason I don't believe modern human civilization will collapse on itself simply because we've discovered opium.

The key difference is that we still live in a society where, at least most people, have to work to live. If you spend your retirement on fentanyl the fentanyl isn't going to be the thing to make your body fall apart, assuming you get pure shit and are able to dose properly and not od your body can handle that for decades. What's going to tear your body apart is the poverty and deprivation of living on the streets after you lose your job. If you're in a fully automated post scarcity society and you're able to hook yourself up to one of these machines and live a long life I could see a majority of people doing that. Sure some people would object to it being meaningless, but in a post scarcity reality where God is dead, a robot can do anything better than you, and there's no conflict or competition for resources there isn't much meaning to be had anyway.

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[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

VR porn + haptic suits = great filter

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Porn + direct brain interface = great filter

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

If that DBI can completely disconnect you from your actual body? (yes I saw that season of that anime where they used them on surgical patients and shit in lieu of heavy sedation that's what I'm talking about) Chronic pain could become a thing of the past sign me the fuck up. Shit, just hook it up to my actual eyes I'm good.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Gonna need to see a Kurzgesagt video on this one.

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A system that lasts a million years? Man, we can't even build a system that lasts a month without constant maintenance.

[–] 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

But what a hell of a month it will be

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 months ago

I bet you could get really energy efficientefficient with it too. Like convert people into highly specialized pleasure nodes in a vast network spanning the circumference of the sun's orbit

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The other one is that if we were to disasemble all our planets (we can leave earth alone for sentimental reasons) and rebuild them in shells around our sun we could create as much habitable living area as the surface of every natural planet (habitable or not) in our entire galaxy. Plus the whole thing would fit inside the orbit of mercury which means very low light lag. Why build a galaxy spanning empire when you can just build a galaxy at home and have much better ping?

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Oh, a theory pushed by people that have no idea about the size of a galaxy? I like it.

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[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Dyson Sphere

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[–] Omgboom@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Like the sleepers in Eve online

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This has meme template potential.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Honestly though, he’s not hurting anybody else so let him enjoy it.

[–] Gigan@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Pretending like addictions don't hurt anyone else is selfish and naive.

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

A serious take on a meme about a guy hooked up to an auto masterbator

[–] abracaDavid 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah there's no chance that it's an analogy or something.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

I don't think so, the master baiter is on the front, we have no evidence anything anal is going on.

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[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago (3 children)

TFW you know how to spell 'masturbate' correctly, but not really sure you should point that out.

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

good point. mastur isn't in the English dictionary, its from the Latin masturbatus. and fap used to mean 'drunk' in the 16th century.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No no, he's an expert at bating. Clearly he's just edging.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Ah, as in abate.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

It's a brand name!

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

The entire circumstances of biological life is weird. You gotta deal with the fact that we're aware of the pointlessness of what turns us on. You can find a little bit of functional meaning of you dig into it, but it's a fucked up rabbit hole best avoided.

[–] felbane@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The novel The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect explores what might happen if this technology were available to everyone. Good read, kinda fucked up.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Real page turner that one. Crunchy and fanfic-y in a good way. The pedo stuff way way too detailed for my comfort, but if that's not a trigger for the reader, then it's a real head trip.

[–] nul9o9@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It didn't take long for it to get to a zombie "rape" with flesh eating worms in the ejaculate.

What a fucking sentence lol.

[–] thorbot@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Whoa, yeah, that link is staying blue. Thanks for the warning

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[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Oh wow! Great to see a reference out in the wild!

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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@lemmy.one 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Do you think enough Harry Potter porn is produced to cover a continuous video stream / decent-rate picture slideshow?

Anyway, these could be AI-generated with feedback from EEG.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 months ago

Nah, it is just the same "Harry getting railed by the hippogriff" on a loop

[–] Rayspekt@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

The matrix after (before?) enshittification happened

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I wouldnt call catatonia very enjoyable

[–] bitwaba@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Yeah, whatever dogatoniaist.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

My tax dollars! /s

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