In our desperate attempt to achieve symbolic immortality through the creation of superintelligent machines, we may be engineering our own obsolescence, and the failure of the very immortality project ...

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Key points. Immortality projects provide a sense of purpose and meaning and help us cope with existential dread. Immortality projects help us achieve some form of lasting impact or enduring legacy.

Beware longevity scientists hawking miracles and immortality. For centuries, the world’s most powerful figures have tried to cheat death. The Epic of Gilgamesh tells of a king’s desperate ...

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Wordsworth’s view of immortality was that nature gave him access to a world of lost innocence and that that world has its own ...

The fall of the Sycamore Gap tree was more than a loss of natural beauty. It was, for many, a symbolic attack on permanence, ...

The Bible agrees with this sense of mortality. Ecclesiastes says, “There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under the heavens, a time to be born and a time to die ...

Don’t die. That’s the simple mission statement of Bryan Johnson, tech entrepreneur and subject of the recently released Netflix documentary Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever.

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