AlexU comments on Theism, Wednesday, and Not Being Adopted - Less Wrong

56 Post author: Alicorn 27 April 2009 04:49PM

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Comment author: MBlume 27 April 2009 06:27:25PM 9 points [-]

If Wednesday sees the argument for cryonics and dismisses it out of hand because her religion guarantees her an infinite life, and if a positive singularity occurs >100 years from now, Wednesday will lose nearly everything in that one moment of dismissal, because of her religion.

Comment author: AlexU 28 April 2009 09:30:18PM *  7 points [-]

A problem I have with the LW community is this background assumption that infinite life somehow equals infinite utility, that living forever is clearly the rational goal, and that anyone (the vast majority of people, it seems) who doesn't express any particular zeal for this notion is deluded, irrational, or under religion's spell. A long, healthy life is certainly desirable to most people, but I think there are good, irreligious, perfectly sensible reasons for not placing any great value on immortality or living to see the distant future.

Comment author: lessdazed 25 May 2011 06:29:10AM 2 points [-]

My pet peeve is when people equate living for a long time with living forever or immortality.

Pet peeves are like opinions, everybody has one.