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i'm a proponent of the SENS approach myself, but nobody else asked yet, so i will: what if 150,000 people dying per day is the cost of mankind's ability to pro

• JoshTriplett 9y ago
  Making people's lives better is by far the most important goal of science. Look at it this way: if we were currently in the state where nobody died, ever, who would choose to start murdering a hundred and fifty thousand people every day in the name of "progress", or in the name of anything? And in any case, who's to say we wouldn't gain massively in progress by not losing the most experienced minds, and instead benefiting from their experience? Or by letting people study longer because they have all the time in the world?
  • orangecat 9y ago
    Look at it this way: if we were currently in the state where nobody died, ever, who would choose to start murdering a hundred and fifty thousand people every day in the name of "progress", or in the name of anything? And would we do so not by painlessly euthanizing people after 100 years of healthy life, but instead by infecting everyone with a plague that cripples our bodies and minds over several decades?