The fact that people are not interested in the immortalists’ staff is one of the greatest misteries. It is the black matter for transhumanism. Less people have signed for cryonics than was eaten by birds in Zoroastrism.
One way to explain it is Tanatos, built-in death drive. Human apoptosis. But on personal level humans try to survive.
Or fear of revolting against God’s will. Religious people are ok with immortality in afterlife, and they are not afraid that the paradise will be overpopulated or will be boring. The key difference is the idea of God? But we have superintelligence as its substitute.
Or, if we try to rationalize their argument in another way, they say: it is impossible to overstretch one parameter of the system to infinity, while other parameters are finite. Like if we get infinite lifespan, but the amount of fun is the same, the fun will be so narrowly distributed over eternity that there will be no fun at all in any given moment. The same about resources. This argument is at least reasonable, but could be objected.
I don’t intend to continue this exchange. Just so you know. I’ve walked this particular road plenty of times already and am just not interested anymore.
The fact that people are not interested in the immortalists’ staff is one of the greatest misteries. It is the black matter for transhumanism. Less people have signed for cryonics than was eaten by birds in Zoroastrism.
One way to explain it is Tanatos, built-in death drive. Human apoptosis. But on personal level humans try to survive.
Or fear of revolting against God’s will. Religious people are ok with immortality in afterlife, and they are not afraid that the paradise will be overpopulated or will be boring. The key difference is the idea of God? But we have superintelligence as its substitute.
Or, if we try to rationalize their argument in another way, they say: it is impossible to overstretch one parameter of the system to infinity, while other parameters are finite. Like if we get infinite lifespan, but the amount of fun is the same, the fun will be so narrowly distributed over eternity that there will be no fun at all in any given moment. The same about resources. This argument is at least reasonable, but could be objected.
I don’t intend to continue this exchange. Just so you know. I’ve walked this particular road plenty of times already and am just not interested anymore.
But I sincerely wish you well on your journey.