Gray writes the following chilling lines: “If you understand that in wanting to live for ever you are trying to preserve a lifeless image of yourself, you may not want to be resurrected or to survive in a post-mortem paradise. What could be more deadly than being unable to die?” (my emphasis)
Gray… is not good with the thinking.
Why are we hearing quotes from an economics grad student who is clearly a fool? Aren’t there higher status, better qualified people who say silly things about the value of future life that we can quote and ridicule? (Robin Hanson springs to mind.)
Francis Fukuyama springs to mine first, though I thank the Laws of Probability, Time, Space, and Physics that he is no longer in a position to whisper into the ear of the President of the US.
Gray… is not good with the thinking.
Why are we hearing quotes from an economics grad student who is clearly a fool? Aren’t there higher status, better qualified people who say silly things about the value of future life that we can quote and ridicule? (Robin Hanson springs to mind.)
Francis Fukuyama springs to mine first, though I thank the Laws of Probability, Time, Space, and Physics that he is no longer in a position to whisper into the ear of the President of the US.