Tim_Tyler comments on Beyond the Reach of God - Less Wrong

66 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 October 2008 03:42PM

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Comment author: Tim_Tyler 07 October 2008 05:48:00PM 0 points [-]

That sounds like the "One Big Organism" concept. Nick Bostrom has also written about that - e.g. see his What is a Singleton?

The fictional Borg work similarly, I believe. Death would become rather like cutting your toenails.