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Comment author: DanielLC 27 January 2014 08:58:03PM 3 points [-]

I think it’d be horrible to give up food, sex, exercise, and the rest of our bodily experience

Then don't. Does it not count if it's virtual? Even if you're dead set on a physical body, why do you care whether the brain that's controlling it is made of meat or silicon?

Perhaps you could hibernate for fifty years at a time

Why would you do that? That's fifty years that you're not living. If you do that after each year, you'll only live a fiftieth as long. Also, there's the problem if everyone does that: https://xkcd.com/989/

Comment author: Vulture 27 January 2014 09:33:54PM *  2 points [-]

Why would you do that?

I think Rosenfelder's idea is that if neuroplasticity turns out to be an insurmountable problem, you could do this to get a taste of the future while you're still mentally young enough to appreciate it.

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