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Slackson comments on Russian plan for immortality [link] - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: Dr_Manhattan 01 August 2012 08:49PM

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Comment author: Suryc11 02 August 2012 05:35:12AM 3 points [-]

This was posted to Reddit earlier in the worldnews subreddit. Given that this subreddit is comparatively large, there are some surprisingly (at least to me) positive responses to this--relatively little "death is good because it helps me live life better" nonsense.

Comment author: Slackson 02 August 2012 12:09:09PM *  3 points [-]

Quite a bit claiming that consciousness is incapable of being copied, however.

Comment author: Suryc11 02 August 2012 06:06:35PM 0 points [-]

Yeah that was somewhat frustrating to read, especially with upvoted comments just asserting that and not advancing an actual argument.