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At a population level, humans getting rid of their off switch is about as good of a thing as your own pancreas cells getting rid of theirs.
by mullingitover 2mo ago
At a population level, humans getting rid of their off switch is about as good of a thing as your own pancreas cells getting rid of theirs.
- octoberfranklin 2mo agoI know you're gesturing emphatically at some kind of analogy to cancer, but malignant cancer requires replication not immortality.
- mullingitover 2mo agoSeems very naive to think that people who have access to immortality technology aren't going to have children, and if you're immortal of course you're not going to watch your children grow old and die, so you share it with them. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to count out how many generations you need to run this until it's 'oops, all self-replicating individuals with broken off switches.'