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  1. Scientific AmericanAvi Loeb5 min
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    • vunderkind3 years ago

      I feel, oddly enough, that the author was not as committed to this thought experiment as they could have been.

    • TripleG
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      3 years ago

      A million years is way too long for the evil that might lurk in the hearts of man.

    • Florian3 years ago

      Loved reading this thought experiment

    • deephdave
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      3 years ago

      The nearer-term future, though, need not be so bleak. The immediate benefit of prolonging life is to keep loved ones alive for more time. The endpoint is inevitable, but as the Greek philosopher Epicurus noted in his Letter to Menoeceus, death should not be feared because we never meet it, since “when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”

    • Ruchita_Ganurkar3 years ago

      Birthday cake cannot hold a million candles :)