So, should we take big world immortality seriously?
Whether or not we take it seriously doesn't seem to have any effect on how we should behave as far as I can tell, so what would taking it seriously imply?
I mostly wanted to hear opinions on whether to believe it or not. But anyways, I'm not so sure that you're correct. I think we should find out whether big world immortality should affect our decisions or not. If it is true then I believe that we should, for instance, worry quite a bit about the measure of comfortable survival scenarios versus uncomfortable scenarios. This might have implications regarding, for example, whether or not to sign up for cryonics (I'm not interested in general, but if it significantly increases the likelihood that big world immo...
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