Are you just using it to say in-between or have you actually read Dante

> A common trope in properties featuring the undead is that the creature believes what they believed when they died. So, in theory, if FK was a Muslim, he wouldn't give 2 shits.

And sometimes I've seen the opposite, that regardless of any gods' reality whatever the person fighting the undead believes is what can defend them personally e.g. this old X-Men comic where the X-Men face off against Dracula and Dracula is stopped from biting Jewish X-Man Shadowcat by her star of david necklace despite being undeterred by her holding up a cross earlier

I wasn't saying I'd do it, are you saying it'd work

You can just not pay attention to celebrity news

But it seems like a bit of a garden-path way to say have more empathy

You sound like you want to create one

who tests the testers, also the test (as in the most common assessment used, that's another wrinkle, what to use) is highly prone to inflating scores of takers on the autism spectrum who e.g. might justify what seems like an immoral answer through either having interpreted it literally or finding a scenario where it would be good to do that and also some autistic people might over-literally interpret the narcissism questions and just treat it as common-sense evaluation of actually having a positive self-concept (believe it or not I may be autistic but I'm not speaking from my experience but some of my friends')

Then you'd need people in power-in-the-shadows to do the forcing-people-into-the-job who'd need A. a similar-but-not-so-similar-it's-an-infinite-regress check on their own power and B. some form of "thought police"/"mind-reading machine"/whatever to distinguish those who actually don't want it from those who want to sneak their way into power by either keeping their intentions to themselves so no one hears them want it or metaphorically yell from the rooftops lip service about how much they'd hate the job

What if a supervillain-type engineered that but made it so not as many died as looked like did and any of the 20% that were sympathetic to their cause just got their deaths faked and themselves moved metaphorically and literally underground to assist the effort to make society "get it" from the shadows

And you in some kind of wish-fulfillment power-fantasy role adequately plot-armored?

AKA you're just a gamer

If it's as simple as removing greed, how do you do that without making us so altruistic we have no sense of self-preservation and e.g. would rather give away our food to others we perceive as needing it more than eat it to live even if that's how we received the food so we all starve to death

It'd need trials to avoid unintended consequences (like, for the first sci-fi-level one that comes to mind (be mindful of extremes even if they aren't likely bad outcomes), so much selflessness/self-denial that we die out anyway because we'd rather give away resources to others than use them to ensure our continued existence even if that's how we got those resources)

So make it easy and/or profitable

no matter how our society changes, immortality is the key, society is extinction-proof if its people can't die

> I’d ask your permission to steal it but we’re the same entity so I guess that’s irrelevant?

And that's why this idea could never catch fire on a societal scale, as imagine if someone tried to use this argument on you with your personal property

But my point was if that's what we're meant to do why aren't we trying harder

> Future humans playing GTA 17 is one possibility.

Please tell me you meant it metaphorically as it could be any game series, you weren't just saying GTA because "people are assholes" or whatever

Then that's true for all lifetimes but someone has to have created it

Why are you not working towards building an Experience Machine then, as clearly we're not already there

Then why aren't we basilisk-ing towards it with that kind of fervor

Or because the "story of the game" is overcoming it

yeah, I was about to say that question is like (even assuming we were LIAS) asking why Valve let GLADoS kill all the scientists or why Game Freak condones the activities of Team Rocket

yet if there's multiple realities that'd be true for all of them but someone has to have made the first simulation but it'd be infinitely likely that that reality's a simulation too

> Because it would either have been horrendously bad engineered, or built by a sadist that wanted to see us suffer on purpose.

or built by someone who understands why the first Matrix failed

> and the world created by most people, left to their choices would definitely be much different to what we experience now.

Even assuming that's true it wouldn't necessarily all be something as low-stakes happy as a preschool cartoon or as wish-fulfillment as an isekai anime