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I plan for the entire history of human civilization to be less than 1% of my lifespan.


To accomplish this, you must both (a) live to be at least 100(x+7000) years old, and (b) destroy human civilization within x years.

I hope you're already working on your immortality elixir and your doomsday device.


Funny you say that: E is working on something that is both.


Hey, I said human civilization, not humane or human-originating civilization.


I believe he means that he intends his consciousness, in some form, to dramatically outlast corporeal human existence as we know it. This simply requires some mechanism to upload one's consciousness, and then all you have to do is wait.


I want this pleasant summer afternoon to last forever. Can I upload that too? Because that makes about as much sense.


Your subjective experience of it can last quite some time after the physical event is over.


That sounds like an awfully boring existence. What will you do for the remaining 99% of your uncivilized life?


"You should probably die because I'm worried you'll get bored otherwise"


There's nothing to say the latter 99% will be an uncivilized existence. Far more likely is that it would be very civilized, but no longer human.


http://lesswrong.com/lw/xy/the_fun_theory_sequence/


Anything he wants? There is a whole universe of things to do. So many books to read, so much music to listen to, so many things to learn and build and understand.

I just can't imagine being bored, not in a million lifetimes.


Reminds me a little of "The Last Answer" by Asimov...

http://destructionoverdrive.blogspot.com/2005/06/last-answer...


Ahum, no civilization: no books, no music, no building.


No, just no new books. Still plenty already written for a few hundred lifetimes' worth of reading, though.


What about a million and one?




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