Maybe none of these guys would have done what they've done.
Maybe they'd never even have been born, their parents being to lazy.
Maybe we'd never have evolved from being pretty comfortable monkeys sitting around - why would we have evolved to breed, to love sex, and to make babies at all? Babies are just competition to an immortal being.
Bottom line is, none of us would be around to mourn the passing of an apparently very nice person. RIP Ilya.
Maybe we'd never have evolved from being pretty comfortable monkeys sitting around - why would we have evolved to breed, to love sex, and to make babies at all?
But we are here now, and we don't want to die. Death might have been useful in the past, but now it's the high time for it to go away.
You could asses any natural disaster or mass genocide with the same "maybe" logic. I don't know you, but I doubt you applied the same framework to September 11th or the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004. These events are objectively tragic, as is the death of Ilya.
I think yes, maybe much more. If you could plan for hundred years in the future, not for few decades, if you could realistically hope you have so much amazing things to see and do in front of you... I'd say it's much more motivating than knowing you already lived (for most of us here) 1/3 or 1/2 of your life, and things will soon start to get worse for you.
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Without death, would we be as motivated to live life?
In a land of immortality, would you willingly give yourself an 80-year death contract in order to motivate yourself to live your life?
Please. Give Einstein, John Von Neumann or Francis Crick another 50 years on this planet and tell me the world would be worse off because of it.
Maybe none of these guys would have done what they've done.
Maybe they'd never even have been born, their parents being to lazy.
Maybe we'd never have evolved from being pretty comfortable monkeys sitting around - why would we have evolved to breed, to love sex, and to make babies at all? Babies are just competition to an immortal being.
Bottom line is, none of us would be around to mourn the passing of an apparently very nice person. RIP Ilya.
But we are here now, and we don't want to die. Death might have been useful in the past, but now it's the high time for it to go away.
You could asses any natural disaster or mass genocide with the same "maybe" logic. I don't know you, but I doubt you applied the same framework to September 11th or the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004. These events are objectively tragic, as is the death of Ilya.
...Stalin, Franco, Pinochet?
Didn't Crick advocate Eugenics?
I think yes, maybe much more. If you could plan for hundred years in the future, not for few decades, if you could realistically hope you have so much amazing things to see and do in front of you... I'd say it's much more motivating than knowing you already lived (for most of us here) 1/3 or 1/2 of your life, and things will soon start to get worse for you.
people might get more serious about current activity with effects far in the future.
Would it matter?
Unless you plug into the matrix, you'll end up living your life eventually if you have all the time in the universe to do it.
Touche.