"Every mistake a civilization makes is ultimately repairable except for the mistake of a brain being destroyed.  ...Or so I would have said until I died in a plane crash and ended up here.  It's frankly hard to track the implications of that, and for purposes of supposing that two-way portals with dath ilan are possible, I have mostly been ignoring it.  Realistically, the people much smarter than me deduce a lot more about what it means, and there is a huge revolution in our understanding of reality, but I don't know what the output of that revolution will be... I guess it is a predictable directional update that true death may end up being treated as much less of an overriding consideration.  Or maybe even more of an overriding consideration if the Lost Dead are randomly ending up in worlds even worse than this one, but, again, mostly not thinking about it until the other parts of my thinking are in more of an equilibrium and my baseline emotional stability is higher.  I do suspect this is a topic that would drive people much more insane than astrology, if they come from the sort of civilization that can't figure out how to use likelihood functions in their science papers."

"Every mistake a civilization makes is ultimately repairable except for the mistake of a brain being destroyed.  ...Or so I would have said until I died in a plane crash and ended up here.  It's frankly hard to track the implications of that, and for purposes of presupposing that two-way portals with dath ilan are possible, I have mostly been ignoring it.  Realistically, the people much smarter than me deduce a lot more about what it means, and there is a huge revolution in our understanding of reality, but I don't know what the output of that revolution will be... I guess it is a predictable directional update that true death may end up being treated as much less of an overriding consideration.  Or maybe even more of an overriding consideration if the Lost Dead are randomly ending up in worlds even worse than this one, but, again, mostly not thinking about it until the other parts of my thinking are in more of an equilibrium and my baseline emotional stability is higher.  I do suspect this is a topic that would drive people much more insane than astrology, if they come from the sort of civilization that can't figure out how to use likelihood functions in their science papers."

"Every mistake a civilization makes is ultimately repairable except for the mistake of a brain being destroyed.  ...Or so I would have said until I died in a plane crash and ended up here.  It's frankly hard to track the implications of that, and for purposes of presupposing that two-way portals with dath ilan are possible, I have mostly been ignoring it.  Realistically, the people much smarter than me would deduce a lot more about what it means, and there'd be huge revolution in our understanding of reality, but I don't know what the output of that revolution will be... I guess it is a predictable directional update that true death may end up being treated as much less of an overriding consideration.  Or maybe even more of an overriding consideration, if the Lost Dead are randomly ending up in worlds even worse than this one.  But, again, mostly not thinking about it until the other parts of my thinking are in more of an equilibrium and my baseline emotional stability is higher.  I do suspect this is a topic that would drive people much more insane than astrology, if they come from the sort of civilization that can't figure out how to use likelihood functions in their science papers."

"Every mistake a civilization makes is ultimately repairable except for the mistake of a brain being destroyed.  ...Or so I would have said until I died in a plane crash and ended up here.  It's frankly hard to track the implications of that, and for purposes of presupposing that two-way portals with dath ilan are possible, I have mostly been ignoring it.  Realistically, the people much smarter than me would deduce a lot more about what it means, and there'd be a huge update in our understanding of reality, but I don't know what the output of that update will be... I guess it is a predictable directional update that true death may end up being treated as much less of an overriding consideration.  Or maybe even more of an overriding consideration, if the Lost Dead are randomly ending up in worlds even worse than this one.  But, again, mostly not thinking about it until the other parts of my thinking are in more of an equilibrium and my baseline emotional stability is higher.  I do suspect this is a topic that would drive people much more insane than astrology, if they come from the sort of civilization that can't figure out how to use likelihood functions in their science papers."