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Natural selection only works if the organism is allowed to die. I think the same is true for institutions and the cultural elite. Part of the stagnation, if you
by mkoubaa 4y ago
Natural selection only works if the organism is allowed to die. I think the same is true for institutions and the cultural elite. Part of the stagnation, if you buy it's existence, is a slowing of the rate of death of institutions. I partially buy these arguments but life extension is such a stupid non-goal because it'll only calcify the elite leadership important institutions.
Within a year or two we will have an AI ethics governing body whose members may live to 150. I find that concerning
- quonn 4y agoIt‘s the Singularity talk from 2009 all over again … Why would they live to 150? They won‘t. They will die with 95, just like everyone else.
- okwhateverdude 4y agoWell, who knows what genetic advances we'll make in 40 years. We squashed a pandemic in two years based on research that had been percolating for ten years. People don't die of old age, they die of ailments that accumulate through age. The more of those we fix, the longer people live. I'm not confident of the 150 number, but larger generational cohorts above 100? You bet.
- quonn 4y agoI have already accounted for that and that‘s why I said 95 and not 75. Take a look at the historical numbers and extrapolate. And that‘s without taking into account that most progress is preventing death at a young age.
- Towaway69 4y agoThis is also noticeable in the ages of our leaders, it seems that 80 years of age is becoming the new average. With that we get out-of-date worldviews and status-quo capitalism.