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Give me a break. You think you're still going to be running around with fleshy arms and legs and a meat brain after one thousand further years of technological
by Eliezer 18y ago
Give me a break. You think you're still going to be running around with fleshy arms and legs and a meat brain after one thousand further years of technological progress? Do you realize that the whole scientific revolution only started five hundred years ago?
No, you will not die "crossing a red light" after living a thousand years. Sheesh, talk about your failures of imagination.
- randomwalker 18y agoIt's called a metaphor. I suppose he could have said, "you might die accidentally hitting the wrong button on a hyperdimensional panfibrillator," but people don't generally talk like that, preferring more familiar and concrete imagery. Come to think of it, "1000 years" just means "really big number that's way longer than our current lifespan." When someone uses an exemplar to describe a class of things, you're supposed to imagine the other objects in that space.
- DavidSJ 18y agoEven if I did hit the wrong button on a hyperdimensional panfibrillator, I'd just be restored from my S3 backup.