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Immortality Payoff Is an Alchemist's Illusion
The promised payoff of AI-delivered immortality is an illusion like the alchemist's 80 percent chance of making the king immortal: making people younger is possible in the limit of technology, but it is far beyond the present alchemist-level technical capability of AI builders, so the utopian gamble is being justified by a fabricated upside.
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Eliezer YudkowskyEvidence Quote
“the thing that you are hopefully trying to convey to the king over here is that the 80 chance of immortality is made up and it's not that immortality is forever impossible... but the alchemist can't do it that is beyond his reach”
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:10:11 AM
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