Gilgamesh encodes myths and lessons for human race with no technological access to 'immortality'.
I think mortality has a purpose within the context of life. And there's literally limitless implications it would have. To me it seems like the most inhumane pursuit conceivable
There is no purpose but what we make of it, and why it would be inhumane? It's inhumane to watch people you loved die.
What is the difference between not investing in life extension research and just putting a pillow over the face of a million people?
On the obverse side, there's a string of unavoidable consequences and complications that are unfathomable. Once such a technique becomes available though, that culpability becomes real. And on many complex levels. It's a fools errand cartooned in the purile mind, and far more responsibility than humanity will ever be capable of justly handling.
The trolley problem would like a word.
You want people to die. I think that is horrendous. Our world views seem to be fundamentally different, is there any point continuing this conversation?
If everyone lived like the average American today, the maximum sustainable population is about 70 million humans (give or take a factor of about 2), even if they’re all mortal.
Conversely one can conceive a green tech and policy future which is compatible with having trillions of ageless humans living comfortably in what are currently deserts while the rest of the world is maintained as a nature reserve.
On immortality, my thing is actually psychologically framing it were it to become a reality; it's entirely inconsistent with everything we have ever known. I think mortality has a purpose within the context of life. And there's literally limitless implications it would have. To me it seems like the most inhumane pursuit conceivable.