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-29 Post author: Will_Newsome 02 June 2012 12:08AM

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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 24 June 2012 10:19:19AM 4 points [-]

I'm so stupid: I read your comment, I saw the comment karma, I saw the article karma, but I read the discussion anyway. Now I will never get those 20 minutes of my life back, and if I happen to die exactly 20 minutes before Omega invents immortality, it is all my own stupid fault.

For people like me, this is what this whole article is about: Will Newsome trying to be interesting, without ever offering anything of substance. If you read the comments trying to find more information, there isn't any!

Comment author: wedrifid 24 June 2012 10:30:44AM 13 points [-]

Now I will never get those 20 minutes of my life back, and if I happen to die exactly 20 minutes before Omega invents immortality, it is all my own stupid fault.

Not wasting the 20 minutes wouldn't have helped you survive till Omega invented immortality. (You didn't shorten your life in an absolute temporal sense, you just wasted some of the middle.)

Comment author: Lu93 01 September 2014 11:08:38AM 0 points [-]

Not if he was the major ingredient in inventing immortality...