"Anon" (tjsielsistneb)
05/06/2014 at 05:15 • Filed to: None
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"Anon" (tjsielsistneb)
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I'm currently using economic theory to describe why living for all of eternity would suck!
PS9
> Anon
05/06/2014 at 05:41 |
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Hmm....depends on who, what, where and how. An immortal slave would suck balls, but an immortal CEO of Weyland Yutani? That person would literally have it all; wealth beyond imagining, whole star systems under their control, endless options for either conquest or entertainment...could come to a nasty end if they meet a xenomorph somehow...or not, depending of if they can/can't be killed.
samssun
> PS9
05/06/2014 at 06:19 |
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And yet no matter how much crap you start with, the law of diminishing marginal utility (enjoyment of 1st slice of pizza vs. 4th vs. 12th) means you'd eventually tire of it all. Don't know if that's the point of the post though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_…
AthomSfere
> samssun
05/06/2014 at 06:37 |
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Except if one lived a really long time, who says you would run out of new things to learn / see?
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samssun
> AthomSfere
05/06/2014 at 07:49 |
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I agree if you mean "a really long time", if you mean long enough to patiently work through all kinds of secrets of the universe, but eternity isn't "a really long time". It's taking whatever you consider a really long time and making that an infinitesimally small fraction. A thousand, million, billion years might as well be a microsecond. Then what?
thebigbossyboss
> Anon
05/06/2014 at 08:36 |
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Law of marginal utility man!
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AthomSfere
> samssun
05/06/2014 at 10:27 |
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But eternity in all probability does not exist, at least not in any way eternity would be survivable to anything we might call living (in space time)...
So all I have is a really long time, from now until the end of the universe. Eternity or living for it is nonsense even outside of this silly mental exercise.