Re:The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant
by dinamic on Sunday January 01, 2023 @11:43AM
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> but, by constitutional law, nobody, not even the king himself, could put off their turn indefinitely.
I'm not sure that any real-life moral imperatives could be based on made-up story about obviously utopian society.
For me, immortality does not sound as a good idea even as a thought experiment. We already have problems with wealth and power imbalance. The invention of immortality would just deepen these problems exponentially.
Re:The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant
by naasking on Sunday January 01, 2023 @12:24PM
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So solve the problems of wealth and inequality too. I fail to see why these must be intrinsically linked. If anything, the compounding effect of immortality on wealth inequality would almost certainly lead by itself lead to a structural revolution.
I'm not sure that any real-life moral imperatives could be based on made-up story about obviously utopian society.
For me, immortality does not sound as a good idea even as a thought experiment. We already have problems with wealth and power imbalance. The invention of immortality would just deepen these problems exponentially.