Everyone can't have everything because everyone's everything contradicts everyone else's everything. Humans have mutually exclusive goals with one another, and no amount of didactic, pop-psychobabble, wishful thinking or hostility will ever, ever change this.
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Anonymous2012-03-06 6:51
Kill your neighbor for he is your enemy, who wants your property.
OP doesn't heard of Full Immersion Virtual Reality? The rules for this universe actually allow for the possibility of very little scarcity, it's just our earthly origins that lead to this illusion
God is a mental midget. God should go clean another toilet.
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Anonymous2012-03-08 1:33
>>12
OP said "humans". Agents living inside a machine won't be humans. And machine operation still requires energy, so nobody guarantees there won't be a schism inside a machine.
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You have some deep hidden assumptions about the nature of reality, and they're most likely wrong. Humans could have the worst and most incompatible goals and motivations ever, and even then it wouldn't matter because there is a solution of getting everyone what they think they want (maybe with a few unimportant lies which can never be uncovered).
>>14
There you go assuming that you know the nature of this universe again: you don't know if the universe is primary or computational or mathematical. It's not too hard to show that the primary universe idea is illusory if you take a few simple mechanistic assumptions about the workings of our brains and consciousness. And given that assumption - an agent admiting a digital substitution and a human are mostly indistinguishable, both in body and in mind (as long as it's done at the right 'level').