"Well, you had your version of the Rovagug problem and we had ours."

"And - I'm sort of not getting the 'exist less' part?  If you offered to suddenly inject a bunch of realityfluid into me and have me exist five times as much for the next week, I wouldn't be particularly excited about that because, from my perspective, it wouldn't feel like anything to exist more.  It's not like getting to go on an additional date with you, it's like going on the same date but there's five times as much of it."

"If this Keltham has such a thing as a natural lifespan, even in a world with souls and the chance of godhood, it's determined by how much time he can spend being Keltham before he gets tired of that.  Why spend that limited time being yourself, before you have to move on and become somebody different from that, in a world where you're not having fun?"

"Also in a certain pragmatic sense, if you're going to live several billion years before the stars burn out - and then, I guess, move on from there by death-travel, after your universe gets cold - are you really existing that much less if you skip over a couple of unhappy decades to get to the Future a few centuries later."

"Well, you had your version of the Rovagug problem and we had ours."

"And - I'm sort of not getting the 'exist less' part?  If you offered to suddenly inject a bunch of realityfluid into me and have me exist five times as much for the next week, I wouldn't be particularly excited about that because, from my perspective, it wouldn't feel like anything to exist more.  It's not like getting to go on an additional date with you, it's like going on the same date but there's five times as much of it."

"If this Keltham has such a thing as a natural lifespan, even in a world with souls and the chance of godhood, it's determined by how much time he can spend being Keltham before he gets tired of that.  Why spend that limited time you have to be yourself, before you have to move on and become somebody different, with the experience of not having fun?"

"Also in a certain pragmatic sense, if you're going to live several billion years before the stars burn out - and then, I guess, move on from there by death-travel, after your universe gets cold - are you really existing that much less if you skip over a couple of unhappy decades to get to the Future a few centuries later."

"Well, you had your version of the Rovagug problem and we had ours."

"And - I'm sort of not getting the 'exist less' part?  If you offered to suddenly inject a bunch of realityfluid into me and have me exist five times as much for the next week, I wouldn't be particularly excited about that because, from my perspective, it wouldn't feel like anything to exist more.  It's not like getting to go on an additional date with you, it's like going on the same date but there's five times as much of it."

"If this Keltham has such a thing as a natural lifespan, even in a world with souls and the chance of godhood, it's determined by how much time he can spend being Keltham before he gets tired of that.  Why spend that limited time you have to be yourself, before you have to move on and become somebody different, with the experience of not having fun?"

"Also in a certain pragmatic sense, if you're going to live for billions of years before the stars burn out - and then, I guess, move on from there by death-travel, after your universe gets cold - are you really existing that much less, if you skip over a couple of unhappy decades to get to the Future a few centuries later?"

"Well, you had your version of the Rovagug problem and we had ours."

"And - I'm sort of not getting the 'exist less' part?  If you offered to suddenly inject a bunch of realityfluid into me and have me exist five times as much for the next week, I wouldn't be particularly excited about that because, from my perspective, it wouldn't feel like anything to exist more.  It's not like getting to go on an additional date with you, it's like going on the same date but there's five times as much of it."

"If a Keltham has such a thing as a natural lifespan, even in a world with souls and the chance of godhood, it's determined by how much time he can spend being Keltham before he gets tired of that.  Why spend that limited time you have to be yourself, before you have to move on and become somebody different, experiencing not having fun?"

"Also in a certain pragmatic sense, if you're going to live for billions of years before the stars burn out - and then, I guess, move on from there by death-travel, after your universe gets cold - are you really existing that much less, if you skip over a couple of unhappy decades to get to the Future a few centuries later?"