#rationality #transhumanism # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought # [[Immortality]] reluctance under the [[Availability bias]] #to-digest >If you came from somewhere that no-one had ever even heard of death, and I suggested to you that it would be an amazing wonderful great idea for people to get wrinkled and old and eventually cease to exist, why, you'd have me hauled right off to a lunatic asylum! So why would anyone possibly think any thought so silly as that death is a good thing? Because you're afraid of it, because you don't really want to die, and that thought hurts so much inside you that you have to rationalize it away, do something to numb the pain, so you won't have to think about it " ~ [[Eliezer Yudkowsky]] What if death did not exist? Would you want to try it for fun? Or are our reluctance to the idea of living forever caused by the [[Availability bias]], i.e. the abundance of [[Information|information]] about the fact that all humans die (yet) of old age at some point.