alt Hacker NewsHere's a thought experiment. I offer you the chance to be put in a medically induced coma and shipped around the world to strangers you know nothing about. You don't know what economic, political, or moral system you'll awaken to. The only thing you know for sure is they, for some reason we're interested in receiving an unconscious person, no questions asked.
Do you take the deal? Do you sign your family up for it?
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By that logic I wouldn’t sign up for blood transfusions, organ transplants, or take any medicine I didn’t compound myself.
What’s the downside of skipping all that potential torture?… oh
Not a chance. In fact all these developments make me convinced that my early choice for cremation over burial was and is the right one. Arrive blank and leave with grace, try to improve the world while you're here.
Would the dynamical strange attractor system that is brain start in the same basin as it died in? Something to think about.
What for?
Even in the best case scenario I would wake up in a world that barely makes any sense to me, where the things I cared about are long gone and nearly forgotten.
Imagine everyday waking up in a world that forgot the grammar you dream on. That's a curse.
In this scenario, the alternative is “you die”. Let’s make sure we’re including that in the question.