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Spending about 50/50 time in VR and reality sounds great. I have my doubts about being limited to living in VR as an upload. If you exist solely on the computer substrate, a sadistic programmer could potentially, relatively easily, and quite literally make your life hell. Or simply delete you and all of your backup copies from existence (though torture would probably be more satisfying to the sadist). A skilled programmer would have god-like power over uploaded people.
"Beneficial" technology always comes with strings attached, and I don't think VR will be any different. It'd be naive to think that VR will be some sort of utopia. It will have it's own shortcomings. I'd love to experience it, nonetheless.
* loud sound of the door slamming behind me *
Well, I would expect to spend most of my Workday in VR, for the same reason that I use a computer currently instead of a typewriter.
This probably depends upon what it available within this "reality" verses what is outside. If people were getting more of what they want and need inside, then that is where many poeople would spend most of their time.
Whether near-ideal or not this is my idea of a nightmare! I'm just glad the question was posed to give the impression of free-will. I think I'm glad that I'll be long dead by the time such technology becomes possible. I'm so glad to be part of nature that the thought of "escaping" really frightens me.
All the time. The real world will never be a decent place, not by conventional standards, so escapism through VR, religion, etc., is legit, permissible.