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gjm comments on Immortality: A Practical Guide - Less Wrong Discussion

34 Post author: G0W51 26 January 2015 04:17PM

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Comment author: gjm 28 January 2015 11:26:36PM 4 points [-]

There are such things as convergent series. If the maximum utility you can get from each millennium of experience is (e.g.) only 99% that of the previous millennium, then the utility of an infinitely long life is only 100x that of its first millennium.