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hah! true. i was thinking of the story about a man obsessed with finding an immortality drug. spends his life travelling the galaxy ...
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but i wonder if it actually does make sense that an alien living for millennia might still waste those millennia chasing immortality
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good point! also perhaps the basic "speed of thought" assuming it's not the same for all brain architectures
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and maybe there's only so much cruft a brain can take before retrieval issues outweigh the benefits of accumulated experience.
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