Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Unexpected TIL from reading https://unsongbook.com/ :
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Ed O'Shaughnessy
@eddieosh
Less a death, more an upgrade to eternal life in heaven!
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Ooh this is a chance for me to give my other blasphemous opinion (some credit to Eliezer): Christian heaven is actually not that fun, and I think most people would consider it worse than life on Earth. Here's a GPT summary of what heaven is like. Do you really want to pray to god and sing songs for hours every day?
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
In fairness to all the people who participated in coming up with this memeplex, Eliezer's whole point is that coming up with a world that we would *actually* consider to be a utopia (as opposed to just a world that sounds really nice in a story) is really frickin hard.
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Joshua Hyde
@jrh3k5.eth
Reminds me of the quote (paragraphing): conservative Christians trying to sell me on spending eternity with them in the afterlife is not the sales pitch they think it is.
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Mikko Lyytinen
@mikkolyytinen
Will there be autotune?
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Jon "JonnyRingo" Williams⚰️
@jonnyringo.eth
Christian heaven is described in hyperbole. Our judgement of whether it is desirable comes from our life experience and expectations of reality. Humans have trouble experiencing life without pain to define pleasure. "There can be no good, without evil" this concept applies across ideals and perceptions....
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Hanada
@hanada
You should look into Heaven concept in Islam. It is basically whatever you want it to be.
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