[ExI] My review of Eliezer Yudkowsky's new book

[Giulio Prisco]

On Sun, Oct 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
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> On Sun, Oct 5, 2025, 1:30 AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> This is what I should do, but I keep accepting paid gigs, always
>> promising myself that this is the last.
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> I advise that you keep doing that.
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> If you are approaching or in old age, the "one weird trick" to extending your life is: never fully retire.  A 9-5 job, or even a paid job (if you have enough money to live on, if modestly), is not necessary - but staying mentally active is.  (Physically active helps too, but mentally active is arguably more important, and more under your control.)  If you surrender to idle leisure and stop doing challenging things, your body starts to shut down, accelerating the aging process.
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I definitely intend to stay mentally active for as long as I can, and
I have more than enough personal projects to last a long lifetime. The
thing is, paid gigs take time away from the projects that really
interest me. I have enough money to live on, but modestly indeed. I do
paid gigs to pay for the extras.
Perhaps after I buy my next car... No, hold on, that and also a long
vacation in some exotic place... No, hold on...
I also try to stay physically active, long walks,  swimming 2/3 times
a week etc. Too bad I must do that with that chronic back pain...
G.

> This by itself can make the difference between dying at 75 vs. dying at 95 - and determine whether you will still have enough of a brain left, if you do die before the Singularity and have to go into cryonics, to be uploadable.
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