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

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Comment author: Will_Sawin 23 October 2011 09:21:47PM 2 points [-]

However, empirically, I don't think this is the case. Since we are so messy, we probably don't have a feature to make desires for sex, power, companionship, exercise, etc. vanish when we attain immortality. We will probably just go on desiring those things, perhaps in somewhat different ways.