Well, for someone who’s accusing me of emotionally still defending a wrong mainstream norm (deathism), you’re also doing it yourself by espousing empty positivism.
I wasn’t really planning it as an accusation. It was supposed to be a potentially helpful hint at the source of your cognitive dissonance. Sorry, it seems that I failed to convey it properly.
Is it honest to feel enthusiastic about something when your probabilities are grim? The probabilities should come first, not how you feel about it.
Previously you mentioned being scared due to imagining to live for a quadrillion years. I thought it would be appropriate to share my own emotional reaction as well. I agree that probabilities should go first. And that’s the thing I do not see them as grim. For me it’s more or less 50-50. I’m not competent enough regarding future scientific discoveries and true laws of nature to shift them from this baseline. And I doubt anyone of currently living really is. That’s why I’m surprised by your pessimism.
Well I do have one to prove the opposite: the brain is finite, and as time tends to infinite so do memories, and it might be impossible to trim memories like we do in a computer without destroying the self.
You may notice that the whole argument is based on “it might be impossible”. I agree that it can be the case. But I don’t see how it’s more likely than “it might be possible”.
“You may notice that the whole argument is based on “it might be impossible”. I agree that it can be the case. But I don’t see how it’s more likely than “it might be possible”.”
I never said anything to the contrary. Are we allowed to discuss things that we’re not sure whether it “might be possible” or not? It seems that you’re against this.
I wasn’t really planning it as an accusation. It was supposed to be a potentially helpful hint at the source of your cognitive dissonance. Sorry, it seems that I failed to convey it properly.
Previously you mentioned being scared due to imagining to live for a quadrillion years. I thought it would be appropriate to share my own emotional reaction as well. I agree that probabilities should go first. And that’s the thing I do not see them as grim. For me it’s more or less 50-50. I’m not competent enough regarding future scientific discoveries and true laws of nature to shift them from this baseline. And I doubt anyone of currently living really is. That’s why I’m surprised by your pessimism.
You may notice that the whole argument is based on “it might be impossible”. I agree that it can be the case. But I don’t see how it’s more likely than “it might be possible”.
“You may notice that the whole argument is based on “it might be impossible”. I agree that it can be the case. But I don’t see how it’s more likely than “it might be possible”.”
I never said anything to the contrary. Are we allowed to discuss things that we’re not sure whether it “might be possible” or not? It seems that you’re against this.