Baughn comments on No, Really, I've Deceived Myself - Less Wrong

55 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 March 2009 11:29PM

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Comment author: less_schlong 05 March 2009 08:36:25AM 8 points [-]

If you knew that everyone got uploaded to a virtual world when they died, and the virtual world was better in every way than the natural world, and when you died you would be reunited with them in the virtual world, then would you really have something to grieve about when their soul passed out of their body?

Comment author: Baughn 05 March 2009 10:30:19AM *  10 points [-]

Yes; you would be unable to talk to them for.. however long it'd take before you could join them.

Of course the rational solution then would be suicide or, failing that, good, ethical actions that certainly would get you into heaven but just happen to be incredibly dangerous. I'm sure we could find some.