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Because accepting the inevitability of death is a transformative insight that helps you live more richly, with less fear, and with a greater sense of contentmen
by swatcoder 3y ago
Because accepting the inevitability of death is a transformative insight that helps you live more richly, with less fear, and with a greater sense of contentment?
Putting off your opportunity to make that insight by fantasizing about immortality and indefinite life extension mostly just makes your life more difficult and stressful.
- happytoexplain 3y agoThis is written so scarily, honestly. It sounds like you're trying to convince somebody to die who doesn't need to or want to. The word "fantasize" especially is bizarre - we're discussing a premise (arbitrarily extended life), and you're using a word that escapes the premise (a synonym for "it's not real").
- quesera 3y agoArbitrarily extended life is a fantasy, today. As a premise, it might not be psychologically good for people if it was real. There is no warmth without cold; there is no life without death. But I would sign up to be a brain in a vat as long as I could read and write. Someday, Fyodor, someday.
- DennisP 3y agoThat makes sense as long as we're aging normally, but suppose indefinite life extension actually becomes a reality? Personally I'd be interested in seeing what sort of insights I could come up with over the course of a couple thousand years.