Very Bad Wizards

Episode 149: Death, Immortality, and Porn (Intuition) Pumps



October 2nd, 2018  •  1 hr 41 mins  •  Download (93.8 MB)  •  Link with Timestamp

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Is living forever a good thing? Could we maintain our values and personal attachments throughout eternity? Would we be motivated to accomplish anything? Can we make sense of a human life that doesn't have a fixed endpoint? We try to alleviate David's paralyzing fear of death by examining two articles - one on how immortality is worse than we think, and the other providing evidence that dying might be better than we think. Plus,we examine some famous thought experiments - if they were porn. And a special bonus: after the outro music, Eliza Sommers joins her Dad at to give her theory about Twin Peaks: The Return (contains spoilers).