Re: First understanding of mortality

Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Tue, 07 Dec 1999 21:17:38 -0600

Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> It was all good news to me (I think, can't recall any staggering moment of
> insight), since I was raised as a pious Catholic and death was the
> uploading portal to, ahem, Ascension... I spent quite a long time wishing I
> could advance that happy day, and was baffled that this was regarded as
> wicked.

Logical consistency. Some guys got it, some guys don't.

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