From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Sep 04 2002 - 18:54:20 MDT
gts wrote:
>
> Robert Bradbury has suggested in light of this thread that we should
> coin a new term to replace "immortality." I think it's a grand idea.
I think the word you may be looking for is "amortal". Amortality, while
desirable since it would remove the very last traces of the fear of death,
involves a much higher degree of difficulty than immortality, since it
requires absolute immunity not only from probabilistic physical laws but
also the possibility of outside supervention by more powerful entities
ranging from outside superintelligences to the Matrix Masters. I would
tend to put it into the "things that require ontotechnology" category.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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