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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
But can't pretty much any world be made to be a utopia if you add a footnote "your mind gets altered so you actually really enjoy the thing I just described above"?
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@vitalik.eth
It's possible but I think humans require complex environments for fulfillment, and anything that doesn't involve genuine challenges, progression, and other forms of "complex fun" may be ecstatic for the first day, but not the 10000th day. And I worry that people are judging utopias by the first-day experience.
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tldr (tim reilly)
@tldr
You should check out one of Socrates' accounts of the afterlife in the last 10 pages The Republic - "The Myth of Er". It has some super novel features, which I believe are supposed to incentive happiness and virtue in this life:
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Joe Toledano
@joetoledano
Reminds me of that futurama bit of a professional gambler waking up at a casino, where he always wins: (up to about the 9 seconds mark, until it goes off the rails) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FnilxKLoadY#bottom-sheet
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Stickie Ickie
@stickie
Plot twist. God is just a super advanced life form and "Heaven" is just his hard drive full of human souls "code".
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