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Michael Hendricks' take is the best: > “Burdening future generations with our brain banks is just comically arrogant. Aren’t we leaving them with enough proble
by omegaworks 9y ago
Michael Hendricks' take is the best:
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“Burdening future generations with our brain banks is just comically arrogant. Aren’t we leaving them with enough problems?” Hendricks told me this week after reviewing Nectome’s website. “I hope future people are appalled that in the 21st century, the richest and most comfortable people in history spent their money and resources trying to live forever on the backs of their descendants. I mean, it’s a joke, right? They are cartoon bad guys.”
We are on the verge of great shifts in climate and energy resources. Millions of humans are already migrating across continents in search of food security and an escape from perpetual war. We're already seeing climate refugees from vulnerable island nations, consumed by the rising seas. Entire governments have been toppled in the Arab Spring, replaced with authoritarian regimes installed to protect the borders of the west.
And a few of the richest people in human history are using their unimaginable resources to try to live forever.
- coldacid 9y agoOn the upside, it's not like they'll need physical bodies for their immortality. Just a quantum mainframe with an unlimited power supply.
- OscarCunningham 9y agoAre you equally outraged by people who spend $10000 on other leisure activities?
- knowThySelfx 9y agoRelax, it is not gonna happen. Even if it "happens" in a sense, it won't be "them". Tech dissent is not much appreciated in yc, esp when a yc fellow is backing this.
- omegaworks 9y ago>Relax, it is not gonna happen. It already is happening in some sense. Prices for many drugs people need to cope with chronic disease continue to rise. The price of insulin, for example, has tripled in the past decade.[1] >Tech dissent is not much appreciated in yc, esp when a yc fellow is backing this. If you're accusing me of luddism, you've missed my point entirely. Do you think we should automatically fall in line when marketing materials are posted to this discussion forum? 1. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/whats-behind-skyrocketing-insulin-prices https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/whats-behind-skyrocketin...
- knowThySelfx 9y agoNo, I wasn't accusing you at all. In fact, was agreeing with you. Just that I used a bit of sarcasm by pointing out how it is in here.