Viliam comments on Open Thread Feb 22 - Feb 28, 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Viliam 26 February 2016 08:06:23AM 3 points [-]

Because there are other things associated with death, such as suffering from a painful terminal illness, where the excuse of Epicurus does not apply. With things like this, "quantum immortality" could potentially be the worst nightmare; maybe it means than after thousand years, in the Everett branches where you are still alive, in most of them you are in a condition where you would prefer to be dead.

Comment author: entirelyuseless 26 February 2016 03:14:53PM 0 points [-]

I agree, except that you are not actually refuting Epicurus: you are not saying that death should be feared, but that we should fear not dying soon enough, especially if we end up not dying at all.