No, it’s like not using the word ‘God’ to describe a super-intelligent AI. The two concepts have some things in common, but a physical, man-made computer program just isn’t what people mean when they say “God”. Likewise, their brain getting reconstructed some decades after their death isn’t what people mean when they say “afterlife”.
When people say “afterlife”, what they mean is living after they die. It’s words with fairly general meaning. (By the way, inability to generalize or use general concepts is a big autism stereotype)
No, it’s like not using the word ‘God’ to describe a super-intelligent AI. The two concepts have some things in common, but a physical, man-made computer program just isn’t what people mean when they say “God”. Likewise, their brain getting reconstructed some decades after their death isn’t what people mean when they say “afterlife”.
Yet.
X-D
I think God would fit in many places where people on LW say Omega.
When people say “afterlife”, what they mean is living after they die. It’s words with fairly general meaning. (By the way, inability to generalize or use general concepts is a big autism stereotype)