knb comments on Rationality Quotes June 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 04 June 2016 04:36:45PM 0 points [-]

It's a moral imperative that we must create this.

John Carmack, speaking of the Holodeck/Virtual World concept.

Quoted by David Kushner in Masters of Doom, see also here.

Comment author: knb 07 June 2016 12:04:59PM 1 point [-]

Did he give an explanation of why he thinks that would be a "moral imperative?"

Comment author: gwern 07 June 2016 04:40:01PM 0 points [-]

If you are curious, you could've downloaded it off Libgen, or googled the phrase inside Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=yyaxyKjyp2YC&lpg=PA178&vq=%22moral%20imperative%22 The context on pg178 is the positive vision of games and entertainment as making lives better and giving people the opportunity to live out their dreams.