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On Don Delillo’s ‘Zero K’ and the dream of eternal life.
Would it be easier to use artificial intelligence to resurrect the more self-absorbed and robotic among us?
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On immortality.
In my last essay, I mentioned Ravana’s boon. Immunity to harm from gods. But that wasn’t what he wanted. Here’s another quotation from the Uttara-kanda, this time from the Robert Biggs translation (it’s less literal than the Dutt translation, which means fewer bizarre sentences. Less poetic, though. But I definitely appreciate that he did all that…
