I really don’t see how it follows that if one believes in the singularity and the potential of living forever, one should make a great sacrifice for a small chance of living another dozen years. How would that further the goal of living for thousands of years?
i.e. if the way to immortality is discovered in those fourteen years? Fair enough, that’s a good answer. I think it also applies to every other goal/event, though.
Sure, but the difference is that the upside of living through to the singularity is supposedly so enormous as to dwarf almost any sacrifice you could make prior to that. That’s not true for many other goals.
I really don’t see how it follows that if one believes in the singularity and the potential of living forever, one should make a great sacrifice for a small chance of living another dozen years. How would that further the goal of living for thousands of years?
It gives you a better chance of making it there.
i.e. if the way to immortality is discovered in those fourteen years? Fair enough, that’s a good answer. I think it also applies to every other goal/event, though.
Sure, but the difference is that the upside of living through to the singularity is supposedly so enormous as to dwarf almost any sacrifice you could make prior to that. That’s not true for many other goals.
True. Just clarifying.