Re: Boredom (was Re: Anders Sandberg's Value System)

Chris Hind (chind@juno.com)
Tue, 04 Feb 1997 23:20:51 -0800


>I sometimes wonder if this will be the principal challenge to long-term
>immortality. Suppose you have a Theory of Everything, with a secure
>epistemological foundation, and the Final Answers to Eliezer's hard
>problems (why anything exists, what is consciousness, perfect ethics).
>Would you now be doomed to boredom, short of a translobotomy reducing
>you to a pre-TOE state of uncertainty?

At this point, I'd either delete content from major areas of my brain or
put myself in an endless loop of ecstasy and wait for the big crunch.
Hopefully theres a way out of this universe!

"Risk: You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage
to lose sight of the shore."

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