Rationality Quotes February 2014

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Another month has passed and here is a new rationality quotes thread. The usual rules are:

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Another month has passed and here is a new rationality quotes thread. The usual rules are:

Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be upvoted or downvoted separately. (If they are strongly related, reply to your own comments. If strongly ordered, then go ahead and post them together.)
Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote from Less Wrong itself, HPMoR, Eliezer Yudkowsky, or Robin Hanson. If you'd like to revive an old quote from one of those sources, please do so here.
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

So suppose everyone (who wanted it so) were right now made immortal. Except, for moral reasons, the possibility of suicide were left open.

How confident are you that human beings would be around forever? Or for, say, a trillion years?

Right now, I don't want to die. There's more I want to see and do! And even if I can't think of anything, I think I'll come up with something new.

But after a trillion years of subjective experience? I really don't know. What kind of a person can keep themselves ticking for that long without just getting bored to death? Finding something for us all to do that will occupy us forever is a non-trivial existential problem, assuming most or all of the other ones get solved.

I think as a child I got bored from time to time and didn't know what to do with my time. I didn't really felt that at all in the last 5 years.

2Said Achmiz12y

Is this meant to be an argument against anything I said? If so, I don't see how it is.

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