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Furcas comments on What do rationalists think about the afterlife? - Less Wrong Discussion

-16 Post author: adamzerner 13 May 2014 09:46PM

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Comment author: private_messaging 15 May 2014 07:32:03AM 1 point [-]

"Afterlife" encompasses a very wide variety of beliefs, especially if you are speaking of 99% of humanity. That's sort of like saying "trees" is incompatible with "pines".

Comment author: Furcas 15 May 2014 02:44:36PM *  0 points [-]

No, it's like not using the word 'God' to describe a super-intelligent AI. The two concepts have some things in common, but a physical, man-made computer program just isn't what people mean when they say "God". Likewise, their brain getting reconstructed some decades after their death isn't what people mean when they say "afterlife".

Comment author: Lumifer 15 May 2014 02:52:14PM 1 point [-]

but a physical, man-made computer program just isn't what people mean when they say "God".

Yet.

X-D

Comment author: ChristianKl 29 May 2014 03:01:55PM -1 points [-]

I think God would fit in many places where people on LW say Omega.