One possibility is having Horcruxes (well. backup copies of your brain stored somewhere). Which would effectively end death by most causes less dramatic than supernova. Another is eventually making people (who wish to be) substantially more durable. But aging might be a more tractable problem than either of those, so it’s possible we’ll have a length of time during which you can’t die of old age but you can still be killed. That’d be scary, i agree, but the worst outcome is ‘you die’, which is the outcome anyway if we don’t cure aging, so it’s still worth going for.
Identity gets weird once backups are possible. These questions get a lot more complicated than they sound right now.
It does, but I’m guessing most people would take the identity issues over risking inarguable death.
(Also I approve of there being copies of me even if I knew for sure that all of them are definitely not me. That part probably doesn’t apply to everyone else.)
Yeah, I don’t quite get why when mind-uploading comes up, the question people always ask is “would an AI version of yourself really be you?”. I mean, that’d be nice to know, but it seems to me that the much more important question is “is dying and being survived by an AI version of yourself better than dying and not being survived by an AI version of yourself?”.
I’m inclined towards “AI!me is not me, but she’s better than nothing”, but it’s one of my more open-to-persuasion stances.
(I’m not entirely sure why I find the idea of an AI version of me (who is not me) living on after my death to be comforting, but not the idea of a genetic descendant living on, since at first glance those would seem to have similar reasoning behind them. It’s probably to do with whether your descendant inherits your memories.)
Ain’t no seder like a ds9 seder because a ds9 seder don’t stop because someone thought it would be a good idea to let Garak hide the afikomen
Is hasperat kosher for Pesach?
It is not one of the five grains mentioned in the Talmud so it should be fine as long as you don’t try to make bread out of it. Strict observant Ashkenazim might feel differently depending on how close it is to wheat.
After three hours of increasingly fruitless searching, Sisko finally has to call in the big guns: getting Quark to negotiate terms for its return.
So I know we’re always complaining about Lupin and how it’s ridikulus for someone not born a werewolf to be named freaking “Guy-raised-by-wolf John Wolf-like” but, like, there’s a simple explanation no one ever talks about.
It’s a freaking assumed name.
Think about it. Remus was a little kid when he got attacked. It would have been all over the papers at the time. It’s in the papers later when another kid gets attacked by Greyback in HBP. So it would ruin everything if Lupin turned up at Hogwarts his first year only to have some wizard-born prat (*cough cough Snape*) say “Lupin? I know that name from somewhere” and go looking through old Daily Prophets.
Dumbledore was probably like “Why don’t you pick a new name?” and this little shit future Marauder went “Hmm, I’ll go for something subtle.”
There is a common criticism of people (okay, of Tumblr denizens) for being special snowflakes. They make up an absurd number of labels! Why would you want to identify as a requiessexual heteropoetisexual squidgender moongender aroflux lesbian when you could identify as, well, normal?
But, in fact, as absurd as the subsubsubsubsubclassifications get sometimes, Tumblr’s attitude towards sexual…
After the brief run of Leverage/Incryptid crossovers, I really want Urban Fantasy Heist stories.
Hiring a retrieval specialist to break into an elf hill to steal back Changeling babies.
A vampire grifter that specializes in running -really- long cons on succeeding generations of the same family.
Thief who’s so heavily cursed already she can steal cursed artifacts and just ignore the hilarious side-effects.
A wheelman who’s got a the ghost of a famous race car driver bound to his car to help with getaways.
(I realize Shadowrun covers some of this ground. But it doesn’t cover -all- the same ground, (Being kinda more invested in D&D fantasy than a lot of what’d you see in the urban fantasy section of the bookstore) and sometimes I just don’t wanna deal with cybernetics or the pages of equipment porn or a vision of the future of the internet based in the nineteen eighties. And also it’s super-invested in ‘magic and tech don’t get along’ which is a trope that bores me to tears.)
