>>15570056
>all this stupid bullshit
People like you have been proven wrong over and over in history.
>"Personal computers will never be a thing, they're just too big!"
>minimalization happens rendering the whole problem obsolete
>"Oh noes people have nukes, we will all die in nuclear fires!"
>MAD is a thing and nuclear war never occurs
direct brain-computer interaction is a matter of the next 100 years at most and current energy production and resources are already fully sufficient to sustain human civilization for millennia ("muh oil will run out!" has been a thing ever since oil was discovered; it's not going to run out within our lifetimes, and even if it magically did, there's still ridiculous assloads of coal, not to mention nuclear power), rendering the matter of being or not being a Type 1 civilization pointless, as there is no need to be one. The idea of being stuck in a virtual reality is amusing, but nonsensical. Were our reality to actually be a virtual one, I can assure you we'd be the NPCs generated by the program, not actual people wired to it.