15 జనవరి, 2026

"I have given already given nine different arguments for my immortality. I’m fallible..."

"... maybe there’s a clunker or two in there. But surely at least one is a good argument! Therefore I am immortal."

From "Why I am immortal," by Hilarius Bookbinder, at Substack.
వీరిచే పోస్ట్ చేయబడింది Ann Althouse వద్ద 4:26 PM
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Achilles చెప్పారు...

If you write something good it will be used to train LLMs.

If you write something bad it will be used to train LLMs.

Writing something profound used to be a better way to achieve this sort of immortality.

15-01-26 4:33 PM
tommyesq చెప్పారు...

The universe did not exist to me before I came into the world. and will cease to exist to me when I leave it (unless, of course, there is a somewhat interactive afterlife). Hence, for all of time of which I am aware, I am alive and thus live forever.

15-01-26 4:35 PM
William చెప్పారు...

I think, therefore I am. I think, therefore I cannot think that I am not. Thinking affirms your existence. You just can't affirm your non-existence by thinking about it.

15-01-26 6:05 PM
William చెప్పారు...

I've got a birthday coming up--my eighty third. The smart money says I'll be dead in ten years and maybe in five. I don't have any religious beliefs and I can't think of any upside to death. Still, we know about as much about the workings of our cosmos as a cat knows about the working of the warm computer that he lies upon. For all we know our cosmos is just part of an infinitely larger cosmos and maybe everything exists in different dimensions and parallel universes. Some physicists said that the cosmos is stranger than we can possibly imagine..... I'm not totally ruling out the possibility of God or an afterlife, but then I would, wouldn't I. Billionaires believe in capitalism and low taxes on capital gains. Mortal beings believe in the possibility of God and an afterlife. Well, I guess like Scott Adams, I'll find out soon enough.

15-01-26 6:17 PM
Smilin' Jack చెప్పారు...

According to the theory of Quantum Immortality you can never die, because you can only experience those parts of the multiverse which you remain alive to experience. You can, however, get older, and older, and older…. As Stephen King taught us, sometimes dead is better.

15-01-26 6:19 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit చెప్పారు...

When I watch Feynman brilliantly explain in ways that resonate, how nothing is real, I think; well, if nothing is real, and everything is illusory, then I can very well never be disillusioned, can I? What's so bad about stuff not being real?

15-01-26 7:06 PM
Nancy చెప్పారు...

That is Hilarius.

15-01-26 7:21 PM
narciso చెప్పారు...

Iswdt

15-01-26 7:39 PM
rhhardin చెప్పారు...

Immortality will not always be a negation.

16-01-26 4:27 AM

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