also why on Earth is Popular Mechanics publishing this, will articles
detailing the theories of your annoying uncle who thinks 5G turns people
into lizards be next?
Well the thing is that Everett was a founder of the Many Worlds Interpretation, and earnestly believed that this had implications for quantum immortality, even if he didn’t necessarily think he was guaranteed immortality as a result
That gives it a lot of cache the idea doesn’t perhaps deserve
In fairness I think these charts would make excellent background material for a science fiction series. I wonder why we don’t get more good sci-fi from this community.
If you are a fan of batshit insane charts made by this prolific, um researcher, you are in luck as many more can be found on lesswrong, username turchin.
Here's just one as a taster: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/L3dsN8Tr75exEK7Mz/a-roadmap-how-to-survive-the-end-of-the-universe
> In fact, to assemble and come up with these 50 ideas I spent about 200 working hours, and if I had spent more time on it, I'm sure I would have found many new ideas.
Out-sneered at every turn.
” When Turchin was 11 years old, a girl in his class died. The
experience planted the first seeds of the possibility of eternal life in
his young mind. “I started to think in science-fiction terms about what
could be done,” “.
So this all about his inability to process grief? This is kind of
sad.
But that isn’t even what a Dyson… Nevermind, I can see you worked
hard on this delicious-looking word salad, I’ll just dig in and savor
the flavor. I love Bostromverse EU fanfic.
you’ll eventually come back to life. So will everyone else who ever
had a hand in the history of human civilization.
Note that this exludes a lot of people. Shows the privilege and
exclusive of certain groups of poor people from transhuman ideas. (And
that these people are simply not mentioned).
The AI will doggedly search for your DNA—it will even dig up your
grave
Not only is this prob not possible (unless yoyr dyson sphere has a
time machine) but it also excludes so many people, sucks for all the
cremated people I guess. (Now I wonder if there are crazy anti cremation
transhumanists (I already know which disgusting comparisons I fear they
could make) yes im making up a guy).
> sucks for all the cremated people I guess
I mean, not really. I don't understand the point of the whole exercise. **You** will still be dead, there'll just be a highly faulty and incomplete simulacrum of you existing inside some megahypercomputer. And if that's what our sentient AI overlords want to do with their time in the far, far distant future, they can have at it, I guess, but it doesn't have anything to do with us.
This is why I can't get into Greg Egan. All these guys take it for granted that the reader will be profoundly connected to their simulation / quantum double or whatever, but why should I give a shit at all?
True but the tension in a lot of stories is predicated on the reader identifying with a protagonist whos losing their mind over superposition or whatever
His early short stories on the ethics of possible new technologies are very good. His very latest novels are based on rigorously worked out imaginary physics. You have to go to his [home page](https://www.gregegan.net/) to see the equations, read essays and watch simulations. Not for everyone, though I'd imagine physicists love it.
Have you read, "Learning To Be Me" by any chance?
It's a short story by Egan about someone who has doubts about whether their simulation is really them.
Frankly, Egan knocks my socks off.
> Note that this exludes a lot of people.
Yeah I doubt they're thinking about the billions of people who sustain humanity with ceaseless and thankless work. The educated elite is always who these types identify with despite being low-born peasants dreaming of the power their idols are born into.
**[Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Fyodorovich_Fyodorov)**
>Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov (Russian: Никола́й Фёдорович Фёдоров; surname also Anglicized as "Fedorov", June 9, 1829 – December 28, 1903) was a Russian Orthodox Christian philosopher, who was part of the Russian cosmism movement and a precursor of transhumanism. Fyodorov advocated radical life extension, physical immortality and even resurrection of the dead, using scientific methods.
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this batshit insane chart is the icing on the lunatic cake
also why on Earth is Popular Mechanics publishing this, will articles detailing the theories of your annoying uncle who thinks 5G turns people into lizards be next?
” When Turchin was 11 years old, a girl in his class died. The experience planted the first seeds of the possibility of eternal life in his young mind. “I started to think in science-fiction terms about what could be done,” “.
So this all about his inability to process grief? This is kind of sad.
But that isn’t even what a Dyson… Nevermind, I can see you worked hard on this delicious-looking word salad, I’ll just dig in and savor the flavor. I love Bostromverse EU fanfic.
Calm down there Anakin.
E:
Note that this exludes a lot of people. Shows the privilege and exclusive of certain groups of poor people from transhuman ideas. (And that these people are simply not mentioned).
Not only is this prob not possible (unless yoyr dyson sphere has a time machine) but it also excludes so many people, sucks for all the cremated people I guess. (Now I wonder if there are crazy anti cremation transhumanists (I already know which disgusting comparisons I fear they could make) yes im making up a guy).
On Jupiter, like the Toynbee Tiles said?
Say, was I imagining things, or did Popular Mechanics suddenly lose a massive amount of clout?
wow this really is fucking nuts isn’t it
Good title, needs more quotation marks.
“Physical resurrection according to God’s Will -
Confluence with god” What the fuck
Amazing idea
I’m glad to see LW is budding off new gods at pace.