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Why doesn’t anyone see death as a feature not a bug? Our environment is always changing so is it wise to throw away the opportunity to adapt?
by CTDOCodebases 5y ago
Why doesn’t anyone see death as a feature not a bug?
Our environment is always changing so is it wise to throw away the opportunity to adapt?
- xvector 5y agoWe can adapt without dying, thank you very much. In fact, traditional death-based evolution is probably hindering our adaptation more than it helps, since it takes a few hundred thousand years to do what we can now accomplish in just a few decades.
- edrxty 5y agoNot to get political but have you seen the makeup of the US Congress? The world is ruled by octogenarians that never seem to die.
- xvector 5y agoNot really an argument against curing aging, but rather an argument for age limits or age-based representation.
- CobrastanJorji 5y agoWe've already thrown out evolution, which isn't a huge deal because our environment is changing far too quickly for it to be helpful. But even if none of that were the case, arguments that death is a positive and should be kept around have a huge burden to meet. When your argument is "we should murder everyone who will ever exist because X," then the value X had better be pretty fucking huge.