Hum, I don’t get the reasoning. You say the perspective of death allows you to better handle the thought of permanent injury. But “conquering death” also implies conquering permanent injury. I really don’t see how we could prevent death but not be able to regrow a limb (or foreskin). So if we remove both the risk of permanent injury and death at the same time, what’s your need for death ?
“I don’t desire never to die, but rather not to crumble away into something just more than nothing.”
There is a difference between conquering death and conquering the ailments of the mortal condition—mental and physical. If we can upload minds before we can repair bodies, we can achieve immortality without solving any of these issues.
Hrm, no, if we can upload mind, then we can just hold the minds in “stand by” mode until we have the technology to build bodies at least as good as a fully sane normal human.
Contingency-based wish machines are evil genies who may not even respect your wishes. I have to ask—what’s more likely in any given ten year period, pristine immortality being fully resolved, or somebody awakening my mind to an existence I would never want?
You should never pause your mind until some contingency is reached unless you are precisely aware of what other contingencies could result in your mind being unpaused—and have done the calculations and identified the risk.
Hum, I don’t get the reasoning. You say the perspective of death allows you to better handle the thought of permanent injury. But “conquering death” also implies conquering permanent injury. I really don’t see how we could prevent death but not be able to regrow a limb (or foreskin). So if we remove both the risk of permanent injury and death at the same time, what’s your need for death ?
“I don’t desire never to die, but rather not to crumble away into something just more than nothing.”
There is a difference between conquering death and conquering the ailments of the mortal condition—mental and physical. If we can upload minds before we can repair bodies, we can achieve immortality without solving any of these issues.
Hrm, no, if we can upload mind, then we can just hold the minds in “stand by” mode until we have the technology to build bodies at least as good as a fully sane normal human.
Contingency-based wish machines are evil genies who may not even respect your wishes. I have to ask—what’s more likely in any given ten year period, pristine immortality being fully resolved, or somebody awakening my mind to an existence I would never want?
You should never pause your mind until some contingency is reached unless you are precisely aware of what other contingencies could result in your mind being unpaused—and have done the calculations and identified the risk.