The September Open Thread, Part 2 has got nearly 800 posts, so let's have a little breathing room.

This thread is for the discussion of Less Wrong topics that have not appeared in recent posts. If a discussion gets unwieldy, celebrate by turning it into a top-level post.

No invitations to Benton House have been forthcoming for the last couple months, so I thought we might do one located in a restaurant somewhere.  I would suggest Holder's Country Inn, but if anyone else has any suggestions, I'm more than willing to change venue.  I would suggest a meeting time of 7, but that is also amenable to change.

Edit:  We're meeting at the Inn.  I'll be out front at 7 with a sign saying Less Wrong.

tldr; It is incoherent to talk about a "you" which stretches through time.  Instead, we should think of a series of similar mind-moments.

Once upon a time, there was a little boy, who answered to the name Lucas Sloan and was scared of dying. I too answer to the name Lucas Sloan, and I remember being afraid of dying. Little Lucas wasn't scared of the present state of affairs, but it is fairly obvious that Little Lucas isn't around anymore. By any practical definition, Little Lucas is dead, he only exists as a memory in my mind and more indirectly in the minds of others. Little Lucas did not care that other people remembered him, he cared that he did not die. So what is this death thing, if Little Lucas was scared of it, but was not scared of the present situation?