From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 03 2002 - 17:15:17 MDT
gts wrote:
Webster defines "immortal" as "exempt from death" (surely this is the
common sense definition as well as the dictionary defintion). A person
with a 1/32768 chance of dying is not "exempt from death." Thus the
people in Eliezer's scheme are not immortal.
### No, because 32767 out of every 32768 of these organisms are exempt from
death, in the infinite time series so considered. Your ignorance as to who
exactly is the unlucky one doesn't make all others mortal.
Rafal
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