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Yeah I love picking nits too. I just meant to reaffirm that it's not an Abrahamic religion innovation.
I have trouble working out who the pagans are: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-20/the-christian-convert...
whatever that means
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Yeah pretty much any pagan religion has some sort of post mortuary soothing story. Worth looking into?
Seems redundant given 'pagan' means either * not Christian other religions in the Roman Empire, or (more generally) * not Christian religions. Easier to say most, if not all, religions have an afterlife story.
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Because I love life and there’s nothing after this?
Jesus claimed to offer everlasting life to those who believe in him (see Gospel of John). Worth looking into?
Maybe I should hold out for "and everyone gets a pony."
Makes me wonder how many more billions will have to die before we bother to put some actual effort into ending death, but I know that's a very obscure opinion. https://nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon
We do put huge amounts of effort into ending it, which so far has only served to delay it by decades. It's part of life that it ends, it seems. No way of getting around that no matter how many sci-fi solutions Bostrom proposes as realistic.
That's not a general truth. The Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish is biological immortal.
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If me manage to cure death, then there is no need to stick around on earth. We can start exploring the universe.
How are those two concepts related
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I know people who work in mission operations, where they're basically on a Skype call with the ISS all day. Several years ago, there was one astronaut in particular who had to be frequently reminded to cover up. Once they're up there, no one can prevent them from doing what they want, especially if it's their last flight. They're professional in the sense of completing the mission, but they're humans with pilot perso…
Who would honestly turn down the opportunity to have sex in 0G if given the chance
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We do put huge amounts of effort into ending it, which so far has only served to delay it by decades. It's part of life that it ends, it seems. No way of getting around that no matter how many sci-fi solutions Bostrom proposes as realistic.
> It's part of life that it ends, it seems. No way of getting around that no matter how many sci-fi solutions Bostrom proposes as realistic. That's not a general truth. The Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish is biological immortal.
Entropy guarantees that every system will eventually disintegrate
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I think it's precisely this. We see exponential population growth of population, so we naturally assume most humans are alive now. What this intuition fails to grasp is quite how long humans have been around: eventually that adds up.
With a precise exponential the tail wouldn't really add up all that much. The integral to infinity is a finite number.