The Ultimate Metaversal ADHD Cure

I recently had quite the thought the other day.  It was one of those thoughts you don't share with people who are at place emotionally where comprehending ideas of infinity might cause them difficulty. 

So, if you are someone who struggles with maintaining a grip on a reality that isn't terrifying, then please skip this post.  The cure is "Do it because if you don't someone else will and they are gonna do a really bad job of it".

Seriously, if you are prone to Panic Attacks, OCD, Dissociative States, AND it takes you a long time to get back to neutral please skip this post.  

This thought experiment will really mess with you if you are not ready to fight back. 

You have been warned.

If you can't handle Black Mirror, you cannot handle this. 

Okay, so I came upon a thought yesterday, it was a weird thought.  It was one of those thoughts you don't share with people who are at a place emotionally where comprehending ideas of infinity might cause them difficulty.

During the year of isolation during the coronavirus pandemic, besides pretending that I Was Legend, I did a lot of research into the quantum physics because why not think about the very fabric and nature of our reality.

During this time I also go introduced to the simulation hypothesis.  And you know how when you learn one thing, learn another, and then wait a little while and all of those things come together to give you a terrifying new idea?

I read an article a couple of months ago and made a Tik-Tok about the fact that AI's have been trained to diagnose people based on their text messages.

I warned that one thing you don't want happening, is that you do not want AI's to start diagnosing and treating mental illness.

Let's just say they do though.

I also read about how video games are being used to treat mental illness.  Which is great.  I mean you can't "treat mental illness" you can only "have a conversation with someone who has been through something so terrible that their body comes up with amazing and unique defenses in oder to navigate the world."  

Anyway,

What if we taught AI's how to treat mental illness? What if we taught the how to treat it using virtual reality?  What if they diagnose the entire human race as mentally ill based on our collective behaviors? What if they decided to pre-emptively start treating mental illness in the human population by placing them in simulations?

I mean, is that terrifying? I don't think it is terrifying.  I mean, my goal would switch from doing things to maintain the system to doing everything in my power to destroy it.  

That would probably require me to post more often.  Which I don't really feel like doing sometimes because I don't feel like I get immediate feedback.

Which I suppose is something that I would need to practice being okay with, especially if life is a training simulation for us to learn how to interact with others in the universe.

There is such an idea as Carbon-Based Supremacy. Or the idea that lifeforms all of the be carbon based.  Maybe there are some who are Boron based like in the show where a bunch of astronauts make horrible decisions called Another Life. 

Have you seen that show? Oh my god.  It is classic "aliens visit, but they aint nice" and so we go out searching for something I don't even remember because they crew members all made such horrible, horrible mistakes.  I mean basic mistakes. Like "don't eat food from a planet you've never been to before or you will get infected with a parasite that will make your [redacted] leave your body through your [redacted] and start [redacted] like a marionette.  It is on Netflix. Unless they cancelled it which they love to do for some strange reason.

It was brutal.  

Anyway, imagine there re other aliens in the world who don't immediately give feedback to your communications. I would imagine that me needing immediate feedback might trigger some sort of intergalactic destabilization of a peace treaty designed to keep us from lowing ourselves to smithereens. 

So it would be smart to place humans in sort of a training simulation.

Does that mean things aren't real?  Well absolutely not, there is no way to definitively prove what I am saying is true.  You also cannot disprove it. Which is very convenient and also serves as a wonderful test of whether or not the human is capable of empathy. Right? Like if it possible that a percentage of people in the world we interact with are simply programs being un in a virtual environment, is it possible for us to still have empathy for those programs?  

Is the mere possibility of having the ability to harm another "entity" in the world and it not matter enough for us to do it?

Or will there be those who will see it as an opportunity to help instead of hurt?

What does this have to do with ADHD? Oh, nothing much other than to prove you can focus on things you really want to focus on.

So why isn't the rest of the world so entertaining?