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RowanE comments on Open Thread for February 11 - 17 - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: Coscott 11 February 2014 06:08PM

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Comment author: dunno 13 February 2014 09:57:37AM 0 points [-]

What if the 3^^^3 people were one immortal person?

Comment author: RowanE 15 February 2014 12:37:44PM 1 point [-]

Well then the answer is still obviously death, and that fact has become more immediately intuitive - probably even those who disagreed with my assessment of the original question would agree with my choice given the scenario "an immortal person is tortured forever or an otherwise-immortal person dies"