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Oh no, not a CGP Grey video. And a parable, at that! It's a shame the humans in the story still die of natural causes, otherwise it might actually be relevant
by rhet0rica 1y ago
Oh no, not a CGP Grey video. And a parable, at that!
It's a shame the humans in the story still die of natural causes, otherwise it might actually be relevant to the discourse around the ethics of life extension. The dragon is a metaphor for normal preventative diseases and does not scale well to the demographic crises caused by functional immortality.
- FL33TW00D 1y agoThe story was specifically written to provoke discussion around the ending of human senescence: https://nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon https://nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon