Re:If cryonics suddenly worked, we'd need to face the fallout
by stcredzero on Thursday April 28, 2016 @06:12PM
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That's a great future problem to have
It always looks like that from the "before" side of things.
Our lives have gotten better for it.
That is the historical trend. But it's only a trend, so beware of inductive reasoning. It's not firmly anchored in any kind of mechanism or theory. There are reasons to believe that immortality overlaid on a capitalist free-market system might be horribly dystopian.
More likely, horribly dystopian and utopian all at once. In fact, I'd say the Bay Area is already horribly dystopian and utopian all at once.
Re:If cryonics suddenly worked, we'd need to face the fallout
by FeepingCreature on Friday April 29, 2016 @06:39AM
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I for one am thankful that our present-day problems include "how do we keep our populations at a sustainable level" and not "how do we deal with all the corpses from all the pestilence we're having".
Re:If cryonics suddenly worked, we'd need to face the fallout
by stcredzero on Friday April 29, 2016 @02:59PM
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"how do we deal with all the corpses from all the pestilence we're having".
There is still no guarantee we won't end up in that situation again.
That's a great future problem to have, and it's the same problem that people brought up at the dawn of the age of antibiotics. Our lives have gotten better for it.
Who knows, maybe by the time immortality is possible, Earth won't be our only home, so population will be less of a problem.