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Artificial Afterlives

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Importance of Afterlifes

The general concept of afterlives would seem to include options like reincarnation and possible limbo-like hoarding pens between recurring lives. We might call something like this a waiting room, but it obviously has a lot in common with an afterlife. There are also non-cyclic versions in which one is basically climbing a ladder, one wrong each life, with an eventual instinct. And now for a lot of these scenarios we're going to contemplate today sound good at first glance, but have some holes in them as we dip deeper.

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