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by zem 4y ago
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"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
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if you want to improve the net intellectual progress of humanity solving inequality will do a lot more than solving aging.
- Viliam1234 4y agoWhy not both?
- zem 4y agowell, if current trends are any indication, anti-aging research will tend to disproportionately benefit the wealthy, and if anything increase the percentage of resources that flow upwards. the potential einsteins labouring in a mine or field are even less likely to be helped if they are not made a systemic priority.