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TagLast edit: 28 Mar 2024 12:19 UTC by MondSemmel

Even if the stars should die in heaven
Our sins can never be undone
No single death will be forgiven
When fades at last the last lit sun.
Then in the cold and silent black
As light and matter end
We’ll have ourselves a last look back
And toast an absent friend.

– Song of Dath Ilan, Eliezer Yudkowsky

First you’re there, and then you’re not there, and they can’t change you from being not there to being there, because there’s nothing there to be changed from being not there to being there. That’s death. This tag includes posts about the deaths of particular people, or about death in general.

Cryonicists use the concept of information-theoretic death, which is what happens when the information needed to reconstruct you even in principle is no longer present. Anything less, to them, is just a flesh wound.

See also

Daniel Kah­ne­man has died

DanielFilan27 Mar 2024 15:59 UTC
185 points
11 comments1 min readLW link
(www.washingtonpost.com)

Ver­nor Vinge, who coined the term “Tech­nolog­i­cal Sin­gu­lar­ity”, dies at 79

Kaj_Sotala21 Mar 2024 22:14 UTC
149 points
25 comments1 min readLW link
(arstechnica.com)

Daniel Den­nett has died (1942-2024)

kave19 Apr 2024 16:17 UTC
150 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(dailynous.com)

Cry­on­ics and Regret

MvB24 Jul 2023 9:16 UTC
187 points
34 comments2 min readLW link

Univer­sal coun­ter­ar­gu­ment against “bad­ness of death” is wrong

avturchin18 Dec 2021 16:02 UTC
27 points
42 comments1 min readLW link

Be­ing against in­vol­un­tary death and be­ing open to change are compatible

Andy_McKenzie27 May 2024 6:37 UTC
32 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

My at­ti­tude to­wards death

Richard_Ngo25 Feb 2022 15:20 UTC
63 points
31 comments6 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Gary Gy­gax An­nihilated at 69

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Mar 2008 20:54 UTC
16 points
20 comments3 min readLW link

The art of griev­ing well

Valentine15 Dec 2015 19:55 UTC
106 points
23 comments9 min readLW link

SSA re­jects an­thropic shadow, too

jessicata27 Jul 2023 17:25 UTC
74 points
38 comments11 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

[Question] What’s the best overview of com­mon Micro­morts?

Raemon3 Sep 2020 2:39 UTC
37 points
8 comments1 min readLW link1 review

An­throp­i­cally Blind: the an­thropic shadow is re­flec­tively inconsistent

Christopher King29 Jun 2023 2:36 UTC
43 points
40 comments10 min readLW link

Thoughts on be­ing mortal

Joe Carlsmith1 Jan 2021 19:17 UTC
83 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

Age changes what you care about

Dentin16 Oct 2022 15:36 UTC
141 points
37 comments2 min readLW link

Value Deathism

Vladimir_Nesov30 Oct 2010 18:20 UTC
26 points
121 comments1 min readLW link

The Mean­ing That Im­mor­tal­ity Gives to Life

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Oct 2007 3:02 UTC
71 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Is driv­ing worth the risk?

Adam Zerner11 May 2021 5:04 UTC
28 points
29 comments7 min readLW link

Things I’ve Grieved

Raemon18 Feb 2024 19:32 UTC
124 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

We Live in an Era of Un­prece­dented World Peace

lsusr30 Aug 2021 22:25 UTC
27 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Death Pos­i­tive Movement

lejuletre11 Dec 2020 18:29 UTC
23 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

The ones who endure

Richard_Ngo16 Jun 2023 14:40 UTC
61 points
16 comments5 min readLW link
(www.thinkingcomplete.com)

Nav­i­gat­ing emo­tions in an un­cer­tain & con­fus­ing world

Akash20 Nov 2023 18:16 UTC
42 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

[Question] What is our true life ex­pec­tancy?

Adam Zerner23 Oct 2020 23:17 UTC
15 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Philo­soph­i­cal con­sid­er­a­tions of ces­sa­tion of brain activity

clockwork21 May 2022 15:18 UTC
9 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Toni Kurz and the In­san­ity of Climb­ing Mountains

GeneSmith3 Jul 2022 20:51 UTC
270 points
67 comments11 min readLW link2 reviews

Have you con­sid­ered get­ting rid of death?

Willa29 Aug 2022 1:31 UTC
20 points
19 comments1 min readLW link
(immortalityisgreat.substack.com)

Do not miss the cut­off for im­mor­tal­ity! There is a prob­a­bil­ity that you will live for­ever as an im­mor­tal su­per­in­tel­li­gent be­ing and you can in­crease your odds by con­vinc­ing oth­ers to make achiev­ing the tech­nolog­i­cal sin­gu­lar­ity as quickly and safely as pos­si­ble the col­lec­tive goal/​pro­ject of all of hu­man­ity, Similar to “Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant.”

Oliver--Klozoff29 Jun 2023 3:45 UTC
1 point
0 comments28 min readLW link

To cap­ture anti-death in­tu­itions, in­clude mem­ory in utilitarianism

Kaj_Sotala15 Jan 2014 6:27 UTC
12 points
34 comments3 min readLW link

Re­mem­ber­ing the pass­ing of Kathy Forth.

Elo16 Apr 2018 1:53 UTC
38 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

How to be Deader than Dead

gwern24 Aug 2011 15:47 UTC
26 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

A poem for LessWrong

RolfAndreassen28 Jan 2011 20:40 UTC
32 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

How did my baby die and what is the prob­a­bil­ity that my next one will?

deprimita_patro19 Jan 2016 6:24 UTC
37 points
23 comments3 min readLW link

Cry­op­reser­va­tion of Valia Zeldin

avturchin17 Mar 2019 19:15 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Dy­ing Outside

HalFinney5 Oct 2009 2:45 UTC
397 points
91 comments2 min readLW link

This Didn’t Have To Happen

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Apr 2009 19:07 UTC
27 points
189 comments1 min readLW link

Third Alter­na­tives for After­life-ism

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 May 2007 7:41 UTC
35 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity, Com­mu­nity, and Death

zaph4 Apr 2011 17:07 UTC
31 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

[Link] How doc­tors die

Morendil6 Dec 2011 13:22 UTC
29 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

How best to show dy­ing is bad

Zvi8 Mar 2011 15:18 UTC
25 points
73 comments2 min readLW link

Great post on Red­dit about ac­cept­ing atheism

cousin_it30 Aug 2009 20:56 UTC
18 points
44 comments1 min readLW link

In mem­ory of Louise Glück

Joe Carlsmith15 Oct 2023 2:59 UTC
41 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

When Hope Fails

resurgam25 Jan 2021 20:22 UTC
5 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

I’m Sorry Fluttershy

sapphire22 May 2021 20:09 UTC
137 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Go­ing Out With Dignity

Tomás B.9 Jul 2021 22:07 UTC
194 points
25 comments6 min readLW link1 review

Book Re­view: De­nial of Death

PatrickDFarley14 Oct 2021 4:28 UTC
14 points
5 comments37 min readLW link

Re­s­ur­rect­ing all hu­mans ever lived as a tech­ni­cal problem

RomanS31 Oct 2021 18:08 UTC
48 points
36 comments7 min readLW link

Farewell Aaron Swartz (1986-2013)

Kawoomba12 Jan 2013 10:09 UTC
120 points
117 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why ra­tio­nal­ists are not much con­cerned about mor­tal­ity?

SurvivalBias10 Feb 2022 0:11 UTC
18 points
92 comments1 min readLW link

Tech­nolog­i­cal Re­s­ur­rec­tion: Two Pos­si­ble Approaches

Alex Polischuk14 Mar 2022 17:53 UTC
−3 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Brain preser­va­tion to pre­vent in­vol­un­tary death: a pos­si­ble cause area

Andy_McKenzie22 Mar 2022 12:36 UTC
39 points
1 comment10 min readLW link

In­ter­view with Nec­tome CEO Robert McIn­tyre—Brain Preser­va­tion, Per­sonal Iden­tity, AGI, and More

JohnGreer23 Feb 2022 1:54 UTC
20 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

[un­ti­tled post]

superads9130 Apr 2022 13:01 UTC
0 points
49 comments1 min readLW link

How Death Feels

sisyphus18 Dec 2022 23:47 UTC
−7 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Without—MicroFic­tion 250 words

Carissa Cassiel9 Dec 2023 21:49 UTC
20 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Any per­son/​mind should have the right to suicide

askofa12 Jan 2023 0:32 UTC
14 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

The Po­ten­tial Im­pos­si­bil­ity of Sub­jec­tive Death

VictorLJZ4 Jul 2024 18:17 UTC
3 points
34 comments1 min readLW link

Sex, Death, and Complexity

Zero Contradictions25 Jul 2024 21:22 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(thewaywardaxolotl.blogspot.com)

Near-death experiences

Declan Molony8 Oct 2024 6:34 UTC
3 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Do you want a first-prin­ci­pled pre­pared­ness guide to pre­pare your­self and loved ones for po­ten­tial catas­tro­phes?

Ulrik Horn14 Nov 2023 12:13 UTC
16 points
5 comments15 min readLW link

Lifeism in the midst of death

TobyBartels9 Dec 2012 13:28 UTC
97 points
19 comments4 min readLW link

Up­date on Kim Suozzi (can­cer pa­tient in want of cry­on­ics)

ahartell22 Jan 2013 9:15 UTC
68 points
63 comments1 min readLW link

My mother is now in cryostasis

turchin8 Jan 2011 20:27 UTC
46 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

[LINK] Terry Pratch­ett is dead

Baughn12 Mar 2015 17:46 UTC
23 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Ad­ver­tise while hon­or­ing the dead

KatjaGrace4 Jan 2010 5:00 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Father of Cry­on­ics “Dies” at age 92

JackEmpty27 Jul 2011 18:19 UTC
−1 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Hal Fin­ney has just died.

cousin_it28 Aug 2014 19:39 UTC
63 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Stanis­lav Petrov has died (2017-05-19)

fortyeridania18 Sep 2017 3:13 UTC
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.rt.com)

Ray­mond Smul­lyan has died

ike12 Feb 2017 14:20 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.nytimes.com)

Neil Arm­strong died be­fore we could defeat death

kilobug25 Aug 2012 19:49 UTC
−3 points
34 comments1 min readLW link

Chart­ing Deaths: Real­ity vs Reported

lifelonglearner30 Mar 2018 0:50 UTC
13 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(owenshen24.github.io)

Mike Dar­win on Steve Jobs’s hyp­o­crit­i­cal stance to­wards death

Synaptic8 Oct 2011 3:32 UTC
33 points
78 comments1 min readLW link

James Martin’s death

Stuart_Armstrong27 Jun 2013 11:57 UTC
33 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Open Source Soft­ware Devel­oper with Ter­mi­nal Ill­ness Hopes to Opt Out of Death

lsparrish13 Feb 2013 5:57 UTC
22 points
18 comments4 min readLW link

Stand­ing on a pile of corpses

Jsevillamol21 Dec 2018 10:36 UTC
35 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Flow­ers for Algernon

Anatoly_Vorobey18 Jun 2014 9:16 UTC
47 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Funeral Ritual

Raemon20 Apr 2018 1:40 UTC
48 points
13 comments7 min readLW link

“Me­mento Mori”, Said The Confessor

namespace2 Feb 2020 3:37 UTC
34 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.thelastrationalist.com)

The Ram­blings of an Old Man Suc­cumb­ing to Dementia

[deleted]16 Sep 2011 3:33 UTC
47 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Can dy­ing peo­ple “hold on” for some­thing they are wait­ing for?

Raemon27 Dec 2018 19:53 UTC
28 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
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