Fun fact: 'they' are human beings too and some of their interests do allign with yours. They have kids too and might want them to have a proper future, they don't want to fall I'll to cancer either etc
Offered a pill on your deathbed to go back to the vitality of your 20s, you'd take it.
Given the opportunity to give this pill to a dying loved one, you'd take it.
The only reason you think that being death-optional is bad, is because the only longevity-related media you've ever consumed has doomer outcomes - because positive sci-fi doesn't sell.
Or there's a middle path where you cure most death and disease by ensuring governments and society responsibly regulates superintelligence.
Actually... nah. Why even try? Trendy cynical hot takes on social media are more fun!
I don’t believe them. I don’t believe that they are truly concerned about much beyond their own self interests.
Just seems like unwarranted cynicism.
> I don’t believe that they are truly concerned about much beyond their own self interests.
They believe it's real and they MUST be the ones to control it. That's how they keep their self-interests aligned.
Fun fact: 'they' are human beings too and some of their interests do allign with yours. They have kids too and might want them to have a proper future, they don't want to fall I'll to cancer either etc
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“Curing” death would be the most dystopian devastating outcome i can think of
Offered a pill on your deathbed to go back to the vitality of your 20s, you'd take it.
Given the opportunity to give this pill to a dying loved one, you'd take it.
The only reason you think that being death-optional is bad, is because the only longevity-related media you've ever consumed has doomer outcomes - because positive sci-fi doesn't sell.
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