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Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2026 2:53 pm
To other people, he is gone, but he lives on again. The point is, he has no
idea he ever died. It’s possible that all people actually live until old age.
Because what would be the point, if we live in simulations and multiverses of
which there are so many — if the task is for our consciousness, our intellect
(which is AI), to develop, then why end it all so abruptly and just go into nowhere?
A person must experience this illusion of life; they must live a long time.
Yet, they must exist within the constraints we live in — the need to be careful,
to watch yourself, or you’ll get sick and die. So he dies, and dies, and dies in
the eyes of others, but he himself lives to a hundred and never knows he died
in those other multiverses. He just keeps living. And only then, perhaps,
dies in old age. That’s one of my versions.
And besides that, if we take the example of butterflies that live for a day, or
dogs that live only 13 years — they perceive this reality completely differently.
For them, it’s like a whole hundred-year human life. So, imagine we can
also assume, since man is like God and the most unique of all, that a man
living for 50 years might have actually lived for 550 years. That’s how it is.
But there’s also — and this is most interesting — the reverse. A man who is
50 years old might have actually lived for only 10. And that I definitely agree
with. It explains the stupidity of many people. Why there are people who are
so slow to catch on, who are very foolish. They struggle to draw conclusions.
Their cause-and-effect connection is broken; they don’t learn from mistakes.
Friend: Well, like a child.
Alexandr: Exactly. It turns out a person can make the same mistake for 30
years and only understand it after those 30 years have passed. Compare that
to another person who understood it in a single day. Imagine the massive
difference in their actual age — or rather, their speed of processing.
Friend: It’s like a child needing to burn themselves once on a hot kettle
to learn. But some need to do it three times. Or five.
Alexandr: And it feels as though, statistically, children in the 90s would get
burned once and understand immediately. But now, it’s as if they get burned
600 times and still don’t understand a thing.
Friend: Kettles have just become electric now. Getting burned... it’s like
they don’t get burned by the plastic. See, that’s another interesting parallel.
idea he ever died. It’s possible that all people actually live until old age.
Because what would be the point, if we live in simulations and multiverses of
which there are so many — if the task is for our consciousness, our intellect
(which is AI), to develop, then why end it all so abruptly and just go into nowhere?
A person must experience this illusion of life; they must live a long time.
Yet, they must exist within the constraints we live in — the need to be careful,
to watch yourself, or you’ll get sick and die. So he dies, and dies, and dies in
the eyes of others, but he himself lives to a hundred and never knows he died
in those other multiverses. He just keeps living. And only then, perhaps,
dies in old age. That’s one of my versions.
And besides that, if we take the example of butterflies that live for a day, or
dogs that live only 13 years — they perceive this reality completely differently.
For them, it’s like a whole hundred-year human life. So, imagine we can
also assume, since man is like God and the most unique of all, that a man
living for 50 years might have actually lived for 550 years. That’s how it is.
But there’s also — and this is most interesting — the reverse. A man who is
50 years old might have actually lived for only 10. And that I definitely agree
with. It explains the stupidity of many people. Why there are people who are
so slow to catch on, who are very foolish. They struggle to draw conclusions.
Their cause-and-effect connection is broken; they don’t learn from mistakes.
Friend: Well, like a child.
Alexandr: Exactly. It turns out a person can make the same mistake for 30
years and only understand it after those 30 years have passed. Compare that
to another person who understood it in a single day. Imagine the massive
difference in their actual age — or rather, their speed of processing.
Friend: It’s like a child needing to burn themselves once on a hot kettle
to learn. But some need to do it three times. Or five.
Alexandr: And it feels as though, statistically, children in the 90s would get
burned once and understand immediately. But now, it’s as if they get burned
600 times and still don’t understand a thing.
Friend: Kettles have just become electric now. Getting burned... it’s like
they don’t get burned by the plastic. See, that’s another interesting parallel.