What are the characteristics of a super-being that are likely to succeed in the long run? To use the analytical framework developed by New York University’s historian James Carse, we can conclude that beings of the future who gain immortality would play an open and infinite game with dramatic strength, which is the courage and resilience to prevail against all odds, rather than theatrical power, which is the force to bend or defeat others in a closed and finite game. Strength must be applied in an unselfish fashion because any “self” has a finite and closed existence. True power is not the
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