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Re:Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials by Retric on Monday January 31, 2022 @09:47PM (#30158017)
You could say the same thing about people drinking heavily only to wake up the next day with a massive hangover. So it isn’t the differences between them that’s causing people to screw over their future self.
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Re:Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials by mlyle on Monday January 31, 2022 @10:30PM (#30158298)
I can't comprehend 1000-year-from-now me. I don't think I would take many actions to improve life for 1000-year-from-now me even if I knew I could live millennia. Doing so does not buy me any comfort today and does not let me "give" to any person that I identify with or recognize as part of me.

I can imagine time scales on a par with how long I've lived and to a lesser extent to the ages of people I identify with.

(500 year from now me would see the first paragraph as exceptionally foolish... and also inevitable. But that fact doesn't change the truth of what I'm saying).

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