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most of the rest of the human race of course. Most of the human race? Isn't there a meme that said pursuing immortality is folly? That being said, I am in sup
by kiba 12y ago
most of the rest of the human race of course.
Most of the human race? Isn't there a meme that said pursuing immortality is folly?
That being said, I am in support of giving humans the opportunity to become immortal even though that implies we have to give up making babies.
- biomimic 12y agoExtending human lifespan solves for space travel. Space travel solves for [fill in the blank]
- Turing_Machine 12y agoNot necessarily. People would still be killed by accidents, acts of war, etc. As long as each person contributed only one set of genes on average to the next generation (i.e., two children if each one was with one other partner, one child for full clones) the population would stabilize eventually. At a much higher level, yes, but it wouldn't grow without bound. I think I read somewhere (but can't source at the moment) that if you got rid of diseases and old age, the average lifespan would be about 400 or so. That's considerably higher, but not true immortality. All bets are off if we get computer brain backups and those are legally and philosophically accepted as being the "same person".