The Fear of Dying Before You Become Yourself

https://www.dailicle.com/read/the-fear-of-dying-before-you-become-yourself

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valdork59•34m ago

The blog post is not just beige— it's filled with em dashes, and here's why that matters.

glimshe•31m ago

AI can do a surprisingly good job at philosophy. I think that the "knowledge join" LLMs are so good at helps the of philosophical works.

That said, the post is pretty boring.

mercanlIl•21m ago

The blog post does the “It’s not X, it’s Y” pattern a few times. It’s hard not to assume the post is just produced by an LLM.

It’s frustrating not knowing whether I’m reading the musings of a real person, or the output of an LLM.

CommieBobDole•15m ago

This is the Platonic ideal of an LLM-generated blog post; it's pages long, it uses a lot of flowery language, and communicates almost zero actual information. I can't disagree with the premise, because the premise melts away when you try to pin it down, like cotton candy washed in a stream by a raccoon.

Congratulations, person who wrote the prompt that caused a machine to generate this article, you have truly achieved some sort of perfect something.

xandrius•32m ago

> People say they're afraid of death, but often what they really mean is dying as the wrong person.

Nope, pretty sure it's almost always a mix of a) not knowing what (if anything) is after, b) the way one achieves the state of "being dead", c) high possibility of own consciousness ceasing to exist and d) leaving someone behind.

I don't really care if I'm meant to become the next Luke Skywalker or the pope, I would live just fine if I didn't have to die for something I have no control over and just remain me.

topgrain2•19m ago

> c) high possibility of own consciousness ceasing to exist

Yeah, death being the subjective end of the universe is kinda high on the list of reasons it bothers people, I think.

throwaway27448•13m ago

I think it depends on the person. I can't say I've worried about any of this since I was a teenager except d. Angst over how I live my life definitely ranks much higher than stressing about nonsensical concerns.

deadbabe•25m ago

Humanity will someday solve death: make everything lifeless by default. No more death.

MyHonestOpinon•2m ago

We may solve it for Humans. Earth will continue living without us.

gitowiec•22m ago

I like this article, for me it hits the point. I'm tumbling through live, I barely make choices

nicbou•21m ago

This blog became really active in 2025. I struggle to believe it's written by a human.

jjulius•19m ago

There is no self.

__s•15m ago

I've experienced the opposite: wishing I were dead so life wouldn't go on with me falling into just another glum existence. That at the emotionally present moment I snapshot it, preventing inevitable dullness that time moves on

Unfortunately here I am, life moves on, now I'm just wasting away on HN

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