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pedanterrific comments on Greg Linster on the beauty of death - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: Jonathan_Graehl 20 October 2011 04:47AM

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Comment author: pedanterrific 21 October 2011 01:15:25AM 4 points [-]

Even assuming your interpretation is correct, the claim is not that immortality would be boring. The claim is that nothing could be more boring than immortality. I would argue that an infinite series of observer-moments, each with a non-zero chance of being interesting, is ridiculously obviously less boring than a finite series of observer-moments concluding with ceasing to exist.