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Given enough time, anything with a non-zero probability of happening will eventually happen, and when you're dealing with the prospect of immortality, "enough t
by human20190310 8y ago
Given enough time, anything with a non-zero probability of happening will eventually happen, and when you're dealing with the prospect of immortality, "enough time" is a given.
Even if the optimistic scenario is true for your first 100 "rezzes", the 101st civilization that takes over after the 100th collapses might not be so nice.
EDITED TO ADD: Moreover "the kinds of irrationalities that lead a civilization to do that kind of thing" is confusing a value judgment with rationality. An extremely predatory civilization might maintain its edge through cruelty, the same way that cats seem to play with mice before killing them. That would be evil, but rational.
- vcavallo 8y agowhat about “everything is fine forever” as a possible thing with a non-zero probability of happening (which then does happen)? how does that confound the calculus?
- taneq 8y agoIt has to be fine every single day to be fine forever. It only has to be not fine once to not be fine forever. These dice get rolled every day.
- saalweachter 8y agoThis is basically the argument that turned Elan Morin Tedronai to the dark side.
- Wowfunhappy 8y agoSo does that one bad experience cancel out all the good ones?
- human20190310 8y agoI don't know. I'm just disturbed by the power imbalance between the people doing the reviving and the beings that are revived. I hope the optimistic scenarios are true.