Re: Hollywood and Immortality

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Feb 07 2000 - 22:27:21 MST


Eugene Leitl wrote:
>
> Yeah. I wish I had his problem.

Likewise.

> You don't age, keep your skills and
> your memories, and can eventually opt out by living "a perfect
> day". (One caveat: iirc tt took Phil hundreds of years of subjective
> time, which is a bit too long. Another minus: it should have happened
> in a major city, and the temporal loop should have lasted longer than
> a day. A week?).

I wonder how long it took him to get the *second* day right. They don't
show it in the movie.

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