August 25, 2019 Sophia Kornienko

If you live infinitely long, anything that has a non-zero probability will happen infinitely many times in your life. For example, if the event we are talking about is an accident, the first time it will happen in your life, you're already dead. So when you cross the street and want to live infinitely long there's a risk that an accident will happen and you die. So we come to the conclusion, that if you want to live infinitely long it's not worth crossing the street. But there's always a risk that you die, so if you live infinitely long, it's not actually worth living. So we've got a little bit of a problem here. Unless you come to the more extreme idea of detaching yourself from the physical world all together. And I'm not talking about the sort of thing that you don't have a body, but somehow still exist in the physical world. I mean literally that you live in a pure mathematical world. Because in mathematics, you can have things that have zero probability of happening.

In reaction to Yuval Noah Harari’s book Homo Deus (the part about humans evolving to break out of the organic realm and possibly breaking out of planet Earth)