Decius comments on Rationality Quotes August 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Decius 04 August 2012 09:50:42PM 1 point [-]

Nobody alive has died yet.

Comment author: mfb 04 August 2012 10:11:46PM -2 points [-]

At least not in worlds where he is alive.

Comment author: Decius 05 August 2012 12:48:16AM 0 points [-]

Is it worse to enter a state of superimposed death and life than to die?

Comment author: wedrifid 06 August 2012 06:11:28PM *  2 points [-]

Is it worse to enter a state of superimposed death and life than to die?

I hope not. That's the state we are all in now and what we are entering constantly. Unless there are rounding errors in the universe we haven't detected yet.

Comment author: mfb 06 August 2012 11:25:04AM 1 point [-]

I think life requires a system large and complex enough to produce decoherence between "alive" and "dead" in timescales shorter than required to define "alive" at all.

Comment author: Decius 06 August 2012 06:08:37PM 0 points [-]

Sorry, that was a Schrodinger's Cat joke.

Comment author: dspeyer 05 August 2012 10:59:21PM -2 points [-]

It will be quick. It might even be painless. I would not know. I have never died.

-- Voldemort