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Once you're dead you'll miss out on all the cool stuff that's happening. It's bad enough we missed out on all the stuff that happened before we died.

by pekk 11y ago

grondilu 11y ago
You don't miss anything because you don't exist anymore. Missing things is considered a bad thing when you can experience the frustration of not being able to do things you would like to do. But if you don't exist, you can not experience this frustration, thus not being able to do stuff does not mean anything to you because nothing does. The only frustration you can feel is the idea that in the future you won't be able to do stuff that you would like to do now while you're alive. So you're suffering from an idea. It's all in your head. Fear of death is a self-inflicted pain. Best attitude towards death is not to think about it. Like in this movie: - A hundred years from now there won't be one sad f.ck to look at any of this. What keeps you going? - You know what it is, Theo? I just don't think about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDEFgX-uFZc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDEFgX-uFZc
- melling 11y ago
  Trying to be clever we are. "miss out" or "miss" has a couple of definitions. You are "missing" the point.
- saint_fiasco 11y ago
  There is a difference between missing out on things and feeling sad because you miss out on things. Dying protects you from feeling sad about missing things, but you are still missing out on things. If you think only the feeling matters and not the missing out itself, you might as well spend the rest of your life on pleasure-inducing drugs. Most people care about things other than their own subjective experience.
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- orangecat 11y ago
  Best attitude towards death is not to think about it. That may have been the best attitude in previous centuries. But now we're getting to the point where we might actually be able to do something about it, and holding on to that attitude may result in the unnecessary annihilation of billions of sentient beings.
- fizixer 11y ago
  > You don't miss anything because you don't exist anymore. But I can miss things while I do exist. I miss 'doing things as a healthful immortal' already! And I'll miss them more and more as my health declines and I age. Also pekk is correct. You would totally "miss out" on doing things if you're dead. Because you were alive at some point and could make it far into the future to enjoy commercial space travel or something more, but instead you died. Only a universally non-existent human would not miss out. By 'universally' I mean one who never existed in the past and never will in the future (like an imaginary human). But you and I are not imaginary. We've already had 'the taste of existence', and we can never be the same again!
- oneshot908 11y ago
  Not even remotely accurate if quantum immortality is true, and I'm not saying it is, but we still have no idea WTF consciousness really is therefore no idea what happens to it when its CPU and memory are destroyed. But do come back when you've figured this all out and you know how to create a new consciousness in any way except for the obvious way.

Once you're dead you'll miss out on all the cool stuff that's happening. It's bad enough we missed out on all the stuff that happened before we died.

by pekk 11y ago

Once you're dead you'll miss out on all the cool stuff that's happening. It's bad enough we missed out on all the stuff that happened before we died.

grondilu 11y ago

You don't miss anything because you don't exist anymore. Missing things is considered a bad thing when you can experience the frustration of not being able to do things you would like to do. But if you don't exist, you can not experience this frustration, thus not being able to do stuff does not mean anything to you because nothing does. The only frustration you can feel is the idea that in the future you won't be able to do stuff that you would like to do now while you're alive. So you're suffering from an idea. It's all in your head. Fear of death is a self-inflicted pain. Best attitude towards death is not to think about it. Like in this movie: - A hundred years from now there won't be one sad f.ck to look at any of this. What keeps you going? - You know what it is, Theo? I just don't think about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDEFgX-uFZc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDEFgX-uFZc

melling 11y ago
Trying to be clever we are. "miss out" or "miss" has a couple of definitions. You are "missing" the point.
saint_fiasco 11y ago
There is a difference between missing out on things and feeling sad because you miss out on things. Dying protects you from feeling sad about missing things, but you are still missing out on things. If you think only the feeling matters and not the missing out itself, you might as well spend the rest of your life on pleasure-inducing drugs. Most people care about things other than their own subjective experience.
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orangecat 11y ago
Best attitude towards death is not to think about it. That may have been the best attitude in previous centuries. But now we're getting to the point where we might actually be able to do something about it, and holding on to that attitude may result in the unnecessary annihilation of billions of sentient beings.
fizixer 11y ago
> You don't miss anything because you don't exist anymore. But I can miss things while I do exist. I miss 'doing things as a healthful immortal' already! And I'll miss them more and more as my health declines and I age. Also pekk is correct. You would totally "miss out" on doing things if you're dead. Because you were alive at some point and could make it far into the future to enjoy commercial space travel or something more, but instead you died. Only a universally non-existent human would not miss out. By 'universally' I mean one who never existed in the past and never will in the future (like an imaginary human). But you and I are not imaginary. We've already had 'the taste of existence', and we can never be the same again!
oneshot908 11y ago
Not even remotely accurate if quantum immortality is true, and I'm not saying it is, but we still have no idea WTF consciousness really is therefore no idea what happens to it when its CPU and memory are destroyed. But do come back when you've figured this all out and you know how to create a new consciousness in any way except for the obvious way.