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I'm with you on your core point, but in a way, it's orthogonal: Death will continue to be an inevitability, and can arrive at any time - even after we solve sen

I'm with you on your core point, but in a way, it's orthogonal: Death will continue to be an inevitability, and can arrive at any time - even after we solve senescence. (Accidents, murder etc)

xvector 5y ago
The endgame (a few hundred years from now) would be virtualizing consciousnesses and distributing them across space so only a cosmic disaster could end a being.
- jacquesm 5y ago
  You've arrived at heaven and the afterlife through non-religious ways.
  - morticiansflame 5y ago
    There's an episode of Black Mirror for this - "San Junipero".
    - xvector 5y ago
      Definitely my favorite episode, and beautifully optimistic. I like how they flipped the script on the generic and easy "immortality bad" hot-take.
      - mLuby 5y ago
        Also a brilliant subversion of expectations, given how bleak the rest of the series is.
- fossuser 5y ago
  Basically Permutation City: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City
- 8note 5y ago
  Still sounds like death to me. The computer could be a near copy, but the actual me dies
  - xvector 5y ago
    You'd use something like gradual replacement to create a true transfer as opposed to a mere copy.