Against immortality?

Abstract

Epistemic status: there are some strong anti-death / pro-immortality sentiments in EA/rationalist circles, and it’s bugged me that I haven’t seen a good articulation of the anti-immortality case. This is a quick attempt to make that case. I’m confused about what to think about immortality overall; I think that it may depend a lot on circumstances/details, and be eventually desirable but not currently desirable.