&gt; <i>Maybe I&#x27;m rambling here, but the point is, how will removing death solve all the other problems that come with billions of autonomous agents with generally incompatible wills existing together in a single, inherently meaningless universe with (probably) immutable physical laws and finite time, matter, and energy?</i><p>&gt; <i>OK, so solving death is an incremental improvement, and thus may be worth it to some... but perhaps I&#x27;ve described a reason not everybody is going to be obsessed with it -- it&#x27;s just one form of a vastly large general problem.</i><p>You answered it yourself. It won&#x27;t. Removing death will just solve the problem of death. But having more time to live and study would probably be a big step in the direction of solving other problems.<p>&gt; <i>I also want an infinite supply of resources (for me, and for everybody else, why not), the ability to experience any scenario I can dream up with any people I want even if they don&#x27;t want it, omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence.</i><p>Well, you can&#x27;t get absolutely everything you imagine, but that doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s not worth going after things you can. Getting rid of death is something we could get. Full omniscience and omnipotence maybe not, but a subset of it is something worth aiming for, and personally I am going to try. That&#x27;s what science and technology is for - multiplying our power, both collective and individual.