Jeff2 comments on Touching the Old - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jeff2 20 July 2008 09:16:05PM 0 points [-]

Fly: "The human mind is a flashlight that dimly illuminates the path behind. Moving forward, we lose sight of where we've been. Living a thousand years wouldn't make that flashlight any brighter."

But technology that lets us live a thousand years should also help us cast a little more light.

--Jeff