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85 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 December 2008 07:14PM

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Comment author: Princess_Stargirl 21 December 2014 06:59:36PM *  0 points [-]

The value of immortality does not seem infinite to me. Merely very large. The odds that magic or religion will save you seem vastly tiny. Sufficiently tiny that they are bad uses of time and energy even if the benefits are potentially very large.

Comment author: [deleted] 21 December 2014 09:22:30PM 0 points [-]

Ah, desert-dryness of speech: capable of making even immortality sound boring and unappealing!