[ExI] The second step towards immortality

[Kelly Anderson]

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:01 AM, Martin Sustrik <sustrik at 250bpm.com> wrote:

> Fair enough. If people actually want to live in a Second-Life-like
> virtual environment that simulates ancestral living conditions, all
> the existing concepts, including torture, apply.
>
>
> That being said, why do you even want to escape mortality in this way?
> It sounds like sentencing yourself to an eternal game of Dungeons and
> Dragons with arbitrarily set rules and with no way to escape them and
> experience the real world (which happens to have ability to copy as
> one of its fundamental features).
>

Martin, The only difference between this and the "real" world we currently
inhabit is that in this world, as it currently exists, you are guaranteed
an "end" to the "game".

After all, you can't guarantee that we aren't participating in such a
simulation now.

-Kelly
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