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Re:MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading by SomeNeuroGuy on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @09:10PM (#16750999)
Epictetus was friggin insane though. Taking life advice from him is pretty awful. I doubt his death advice is any better.
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Re:MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading by nostromo95 on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @09:56PM (#16751235)
>Epictetus was friggin insane though.

What do you mean?

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Re:MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading by SomeNeuroGuy on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @06:28PM (#16759869)
He says don't hope for anything, because you can't control that. Just decide you're happy as-is, because all you can control is your own mind.

A) Not hoping for anything is a great way to stay in shit situations, and B) Yeah, no, you can't actually control your own mind that well.

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