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Rabbi: Joseph, that is just so... unbelievably...
(Mary holds her breath.)
Rabbi: NEAT!
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You know, Eliezer, sometimes that's the way things like the Friendly AI effort (and Alcor, and a few other things) strike me.
I want to believe.
Does that make me as gullible as Joseph, or as opportunistic as the Rabbi?
Too soon to tell.
I'm up in Sonoma County -- how about something teleconferenced via Skype, or something multipoint?
Why not believe you'll go to heaven regardless, and trump mere FAI and mere cryonics combined, so long as you're believing things you want to believe?
Because then I won't get to go to Dresden Codak's Secular Heaven. It's a Catch-22.