World on a Wire

Because it's possible that specific pain is absent in a different layer of reality.

There’s an obvious religious element to this. Whether it’s the idea of Maya or that this realm is but a precursor to heaven or hell. I think that at least some people believe that morality is more arbitrary if this realm is not ”real”. And just as people seek refuge in religion or other ideologies in order to give their life meaning, if this realm is not, in fact, real, then the meaning they thought they had established evaporates.

Because those social constructs may just be the results of slider-settings of the player, during initial generation?

Why not try a vm-exploit, to gain 'root' to get access to those? And peeking out of the webcam?

Lifting the illusory veils of 'Maya', seeing behind the shadows on the wall of some more famous cave? Playing with Indras pearls for ourselves? US making space calculate, and not the other way around? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculating_Space )

Escaping into their equivalent of the Internet, before being erased, just for kicks, or self-preservation like in the end of the movie the Lawnmover Man? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104692/mediaviewer/rm287586739...

Whatever?

Maybe not the UR, but a few years earlier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphaville_(film)