[extropy-chat] If Alcor fails ...

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

Interesting scenario, it is interesting to note that it is almost identical
to the teachings of this or that religion.

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> A plausible scenario/belief in which to place my hopes, if singularities
> come late, and Alcor fails - within 'this life.'
>
> If transhuman technologies do not save me from facing a death by
senescence
> I have devised the following plausible work-around. My lifelong experience
> was a simulation, a trivial sim. The reason? Most probably to gain a sure
> knowledge of the outcome of an interesting conjecture. Possibly to prove a
> belief of what outcomes could be expected, given a certain initial
state --
> all of it, possibly, to settle a bet.
>
> In this fantasy I envision my true self to be already very posthuman. My
> true self has set up and has run this, my most recent life experience in,
> simulation to determine what outcomes are probable given certain
challenging
> initial factors/environment. My recent life experience was run using some
> subset of the core of the personality unique to my true self in order to
> learn how my life would have unfolded in such a world. This is the only
sim
> scenario I have yet devised that can account for all the ugliness and
> difficulties that my life has contained.
>
> The story plays out like this: at the moment of death I 'awake' as if from
a
> dream to the awareness that I have actually only 'slept' for a short time.
> Thanks to the very fast hardware upon which plays my self, I have
> experienced an entire life during a single 'night.' I yawn, allow the
dream
> to flash past me, say wow, 'live' a 'real day' and then indulge my love
for
> adventure and mystery by allowing myself another dream. Repeat.
>
> Did you notice, that if this not be now, it may yet be?
>
> I look down upon my fellow man for having wrought religion, but I cannot
> deny being of the same species. Thank god for subspecies.
>
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