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Can someone explain what I said incorrectly? Assuming you can either be killed by someone else, be killed in an accident, or commit suicide, the rationality of
by Vecr 2y ago
Can someone explain what I said incorrectly? Assuming you can either be killed by someone else, be killed in an accident, or commit suicide, the rationality of living forever appears correct. Avoiding being killed by someone else is generally rational, because they probably don't have your best interests in mind, demonstrated by them trying to kill you. Being killed in an accident won't help anyone. That leaves suicide, and I'm not sure who says suicide is generally rational.
I can think that if you are going to be tortured to give up the secret to destroying the world it might be rational, but that's not "with all else equal" and is not a generally common situation.
Otherwise, it comes down to the simple math of "the next number" or the "successor" function, where applying the function "wanting more to be alive tomorrow than dead tomorrow" to the current day, applying the successor function, then repeating, ends up with an outcome of "infinity".