Scott Alexander

We grant her the rank of Forebear, and the Ancestor Veneration and Simulation Collective has built a mega-cathedral to her memory three star systems over.

I'm not trying to push you in any direction, honest.

If you get everything totally wrong, too bad.

But you'll still be remembered forever for trying.

Even Pontius Pilate has immortality of a sort.

Both Eliezer Yudkowsky and Beth Jezos have their page in the textbooks assured.

If you're a well-off Silicon Valley person, you're already well-placed to join them.

So participate in the discourse.

Create some art.

Donate to a cause you believe in.

Make a prediction.

Discover something interesting.

Have more fun than anyone has ever had before.

After all, history remembers Aristippus.

Start a cool group house.

After all, history remembers Epicurus.

Be extremely hot.

History remembers Antinous too.

Sell people the lowest quality copper that has ever been sold and live forever as a meme 6,000 years later.

But don't waste this amazing opportunity you've been given on a vapid attempt to escape the permanent underclass.