I always preferred the ‘Friendship is Optimal’ version. It’s a my little pony fanfiction in which a video game based on the franchise featuring AI achieves the singularity and creates a sort of digital afterlife. Humans can be uploaded, but the process is destructive, resulting in their real body’s death.
The afterlife created for them is uniquely calibrated to provide maximum contentment. Each space features a small number of other people (some real, some NPCs) following Dunbar’s number to ensure our minds can care about them. The people chosen are calibrated to mesh well with your personality.
It features interesting things for us to do, with enough challenges to keep things fresh and engaging, but not so many as to overly frustrate us. Basically it turns our experience into that of an idyllic version of reality.
That’s about as close a description of ‘eternal bliss’ as I can fathom except for the fact that by nature it’s not 100% bliss all the time. It’s just living in a world where you matter, can surround yourself with loved ones you gel with and can pursue your passions endlessly in ways that are personally rewarding to you. Even then I’m not sure how it’d actually keep working after a few thousand years or so.
I always preferred the ‘Friendship is Optimal’ version. It’s a my little pony fanfiction in which a video game based on the franchise featuring AI achieves the singularity and creates a sort of digital afterlife. Humans can be uploaded, but the process is destructive, resulting in their real body’s death.
The afterlife created for them is uniquely calibrated to provide maximum contentment. Each space features a small number of other people (some real, some NPCs) following Dunbar’s number to ensure our minds can care about them. The people chosen are calibrated to mesh well with your personality.
It features interesting things for us to do, with enough challenges to keep things fresh and engaging, but not so many as to overly frustrate us. Basically it turns our experience into that of an idyllic version of reality.
That’s about as close a description of ‘eternal bliss’ as I can fathom except for the fact that by nature it’s not 100% bliss all the time. It’s just living in a world where you matter, can surround yourself with loved ones you gel with and can pursue your passions endlessly in ways that are personally rewarding to you. Even then I’m not sure how it’d actually keep working after a few thousand years or so.