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Features a utopia should have

(Note: I’m talking a *real* utopia. Something we’d need significant technological improvements to implement on earth)

  1. Ability to wear any body (animal, human, etc)
  2. Ability to ‘share’ a body with one or more other occupants
  3. Ability to ‘melt’ – temporarily crosswire memories and/or decision trees in various combinations with other people
  4. “Flexible time” – ability to stop time for a participant until another participant wanted to do something with them
  5. “Conditional virginity” – the ability to temporarily forget having experienced something so you could experience it for the first time again
  6. Of course, pretty much every activity on earth, available in unlimited amounts
  7. The ability to control individual neurons and clusters of neurons, complete with a scripting language
  8. Ability to ‘matrix learn’ i.e. temporarily assign master knowledge for things you don’t want to have the long slow agonizing experience of learning. (Of course, it might not be possible to make the skill *yours* without learning it the slow way)
  9. Ability to learn the slow way, and to save having learned the slow way in different banks so you can develop multiple personalities, multiple musician styles, etc
  10. Lots of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. (Well, art in general. Music, video, kinesthetic, worlds you can visit)
  11. Unlimited budget, but protections against doing stupid things. (One friend of mine suggests the ultimate resource to conserve is quota of memory storage, a la Lambda)
  12. Ability to experience any work of fiction (film, movie, video game) as a immersive environment. (The holodeck, basically)
  13. Help with the interface, which I think perforce is going to have to be somewhat complex
  14. Ability to create immersive worlds
  15. Computer systems that can synthesize new works of art based on existing ones
  16. No need to worry about money, food, or shelter
  17. Lots of dogs. Ideally with no leashes or need of them, and ideally with us having the ability to communicate cross-species or at least natively understand communications
  18. Not a lot of restrictions based on what other people think are good art. Restrictions or at least help when interfacing with other people so no one gets hurt. Restrictions on work with simulations pretty much only limited to preventing people from hurting themselves too badly
  19. Unlimited amount of time
  20. Free will to use all of the above to drive the adventures one wants to see

 

I may update this post as I think of more.

 

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4 Responses to “Features a utopia should have”

  1. bunne Says:
    October 23rd, 2020 at 1:15 am

    I’d settle for no pain, good weather, and somebody to love.
    Then again, I’m pretty easy to keep happy. : )

  2. sheer_panic Says:
    October 25th, 2020 at 8:26 am

    My guess is after the first few thousand years you would find this *vastly* inadequate 😉

  3. bunne Says:
    October 28th, 2020 at 2:13 am

    On the premise of living a few thousand years, I most likely would. I am nearing that age where graduations are called funerals and I always remind, as I attend such services, that “life is precious because it ends”. I frankly cannot think of a good reason to live on this plane of existence for a few thousand years, Let alone with a trillion, billion other immortals. Where would we park? : )

  4. Swipes Says:
    June 21st, 2023 at 6:56 pm

    It’s enlightening to see what you’d pick and the parameters you have for them. I think your utopia is definitely different than mine. If you’d find value in it, let me know if I should work on laying mine out.

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