From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Sep 03 2002 - 21:45:11 MDT
GTS, you are attacking a strawman. I suppose 100.0000% subjective
assurance of immortality would be convenient for peace of mind, but what
all of us are interested in is actually living forever. If you choose to
define immortality in some odd way such that someone who actually lives
forever is not "immortal" because that person "could have" died or did not
at any point have an absolute subjective assurance of immortality, you are
talking about a quantity that we do not necessarily care about. It's
actually living forever that counts.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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