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Why bother staying? Why bother anything? Because why not.

I didn’t say I was going to sign up :)

But I don’t think it’s too far fetched. Imagine a VR system that doesn’t require wearing a helmet and can be displayed in physical space. And/or a Matrix-style direct jack into the brain. Any environment you can think of, easily accessible. Doesn’t seem that bad to me.

Beyond that, A lot of people already spend 10+ hours staring at screens here on Earth...

Does it replicate smells, tastes and touch sensations as well as just sound and vision? I spend a lot of time staring at a screen, but it's the time I spend not staring at a screen and interacting with other beings that makes life worth living.

Obviously we are speculating here, but projecting current tech 300-400 years into the future, it doesn’t seem that absurd to me.

And don’t forget that you’d be in space with tons of other colonists too.

To build a Dyson sphere so that you have enough power to finally run VR Minecraft at 60 FPS! ;-)

e.g. because your star is about to blow up.

Because someone wants to