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I'd rather solve immortality first, and figure out how to deal with it second.
by gallerdude 9y ago
I'd rather solve immortality first, and figure out how to deal with it second.
- goatlover 9y agoImmortality is impossible. You'll die of something else if it isn't old age. Even your copies will die, and the means for making them will be destroyed at some point or succumb to entropy.
- aleeds 9y agoI think he meant "Why don't we solve dying of old age first". I think that is pretty obvious from context.
- red75prime 9y agoEntropy is non-decreasing in closed systems. Also you can make a habit of not keeping all of your copies in one solar system.
- pmoriarty 9y agoWould you really think of all of these "copies" as yourself?
- Koshkin 9y agoRight. Immortality is impossible without indestructibility. The mean time from birth to a fatal accident is probably around 200 years. But indestructibility is worse than mortality - imagine yourself stuck forever in a situation you can't get out of, like being accidentally buried inside a slab of concrete. What a boring life that would be!
- mavdi 9y agoChrist you just described the nightmare scenario I've been having since hearing the possibility of the universe being infinite, which would mean a consciousness exactly like mine is stuck under a pile of stone somewhere.