Devil offers you deal: immortality in exchange for never growing any wiser. You'll never have another insight ever. Would you take it?
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Does "never growing wiser" include freedom from hedonic adaption? If yes, that's a great deal, IMO...
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hell no, you're thinking of a deal from god there, not devil :D
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What is the point of a life without new brain changing skills and knowledge? Wisdom is about seeing connections between things.
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Perhaps you could learn to parrot other people's insights without comprehension, but it would be a dull and empty eternity.
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And that's assuming the immortality package wasn't a raw deal on its own (eternal torment, left behind by evolution or extinction).
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Yes, I am now senile enough so this won't matter.
(will probably apply to everyone at some point)



