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I plan for the entire history of human civilization to be less than 1% of my lifespan.
by Eliezer 17y ago
I plan for the entire history of human civilization to be less than 1% of my lifespan.
- Gormo 17y agoTo accomplish this, you must both (a) live to be at least 100(x+7000) years old, and (b) destroy human civilization within x years. I hope you're already working on your immortality elixir and your doomsday device.
- aristus 17y agoFunny you say that: E is working on something that is both.
- sailormoon 17y agoI believe he means that he intends his consciousness, in some form, to dramatically outlast corporeal human existence as we know it. This simply requires some mechanism to upload one's consciousness, and then all you have to do is wait.
- Eliezer 17y agoHey, I said human civilization, not humane or human-originating civilization.
- nostrademons 17y agoThat sounds like an awfully boring existence. What will you do for the remaining 99% of your uncivilized life?
- sailormoon 17y agoAnything he wants? There is a whole universe of things to do. So many books to read, so much music to listen to, so many things to learn and build and understand. I just can't imagine being bored, not in a million lifetimes.
- SpoonMeiser 17y agoWhat about a million and one?
- tybris 17y agoAhum, no civilization: no books, no music, no building.
- iclelland 17y agoNo, just no new books. Still plenty already written for a few hundred lifetimes' worth of reading, though.
- jcl 17y agoReminds me a little of "The Last Answer" by Asimov... http://destructionoverdrive.blogspot.com/2005/06/last-answer-by-isaac-asimov.html http://destructionoverdrive.blogspot.com/2005/06/last-answer...
- xiaoma 17y agoThere's nothing to say the latter 99% will be an uncivilized existence. Far more likely is that it would be very civilized, but no longer human.
- jodrellblank 17y ago"You should probably die because I'm worried you'll get bored otherwise"