Re:Is Aging Inevitable?
by CryptoPunk on Monday July 26, 2021 @04:26AM
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There is nothing meaningful in death. It's a meaningless tragedy. If and when we can give humans the option of living forever, you're always free to not avail yourself of that option, if that is your preference.
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Sure there is, the fact of its apparent permanence provides and ordering criteria for a value system. Are you saying that there's nothing - nothing at all - for which you'd be willing to sacrifice your life?
Re:Is Aging Inevitable?
by CryptoPunk on Monday July 26, 2021 @05:54PM
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You can have an ordering criteria without having lifespans limited to 7-8 decades. Time still matters in the absence of death from aging.
You can, and you'll also end up with a gerontocracy. I see you don't address the sacrifice question so I guess that means there isn't any such thing. Perhaps that will change in the future.
Re:Is Aging Inevitable?
by CryptoPunk on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @12:56AM
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Issues like gerontocracy will be completely irrelevant when we're spanning the solar system, and especially when we're sending colony ships to star systems light years away.