Punching-bags

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punching-bags

Title text: I would like this VR game, plz

Votey

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Welcome to heaven, dave! Here are your four punching bags!

What do they do?

There are lots of things that matter to humans in earthly life. In heaven, you get them all by performing repetitive physical labor.

This is your high status bag. This is the morality bag. This is the love bag. And, this is the sense of meaning bag. The more you punch each of them, the more you get.

Everything is measured with perfect precision

And you can look up growth on a chart. Your total amount increases in each category with the precise exponential

Function required to

Make each day seem new

And interesting.

So. Weird. Yet so compelling.

We basically stole it from video games.

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The "experience machine" scenario is never tempting until I imagine something like this.

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