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Lumifer comments on Estimate the Cost of Immortality - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 18 December 2015 04:02:46PM 1 point [-]

Basically the idea is that everyone realizes that if we do this that we could vastly accelerate the speed at which we develop

This seems obviously, patently false to me.

Even if you have in mind a far-reaching remaking of humanity into enthusiastic slaves of some god-like entity, I don't think that it would either "vastly accelerate the speed" or would lead to "more free life" in the future.