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[Gadersd]

> Does this change with the introduction of backups from which the dead can be resurrected (perhaps having amnesia about the time between their last pre-death backup and their resurrection)? 

A case can be made that as backups are created over time the probability of the destruction of all backups may approach zero and therefore bypass the assumption that the probability of death per year has a lower bound greater than 0.

This will buy some time, but still doesn’t avoid the inevitable heat death. If the multiverse has sufficient variety then it may be that there exists a version of each of us where some being pulls us out of the “simulation." Infinite other survival possibilities are also possible in a multiverse with sufficient variety. If all mathematical structures exist then these possibilities are inevitable, granting potential true immortality. The probabliity distribution of these possibilities remains unknown as we lack a theory of everything. Better not to put hope in speculation.

> On Jun 17, 2023, at 9:31 PM, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 3:53 PM Gadersd via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>> wrote:
> I must object to the use of the term “immortality.” If the probability per year of death is for all time greater than some number, ε, then with certainty all beings will eventually perish. There will always be a nonzero probability of accidental death that I think can be bounded by some number ε. In any case there is the heat death to end the stragglers.
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> Does this change with the introduction of backups from which the dead can be resurrected (perhaps having amnesia about the time between their last pre-death backup and their resurrection)? 
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