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To do away with death is to do away with evolution. Not a very good idea. We should work towards improving the quality of life rather than extend it. Would hav
by asto 15y ago
To do away with death is to do away with evolution. Not a very good idea. We should work towards improving the quality of life rather than extend it.
Would have been happier if the article was "as more people fall to chronically painful illnesses, isn't it time we act?"
- thret 15y agoEvolution happens from one generation to the next and there isn't much we can do to prevent it. You are thinking of natural selection, and we've already done away with that by ensuring humans have the opportunity to procreate regardless of physical defects.
- gwern 15y ago> To do away with death is to do away with evolution. Not a very good idea. It's a great idea. Evolution is about the dumbest possible optimization process which still works. I don't see Google throwing its hands up and saying 'screw engineering Bigtable or MapReduce with our silly minds, we'll just evolve those fuckers!' Science: it works, bitches. (With apologies to http://www.xkcd.com/54/ http://www.xkcd.com/54/)