Dorikka comments on What Would You Do If You Only Had Six Months To Live? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Unknowns 21 May 2015 07:24:16AM 0 points [-]

I would act as though he were wrong, for anthropic reasons. In other words, six months later (or 70 years later) I will certainly not wake up one day and notice that I am dead, since this can never happen to anyone.

Comment author: Dorikka 22 May 2015 08:07:33AM 0 points [-]

Would this brand of anthropics imply that you never actually die in experiential terms? Given processes of bodily degradation, etc; this brand of immortality might be equivalent to a personal hell were it to exist.