Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev...
by raducu on Friday August 04, 2023 @03:08AM
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> you’re hypothetically depriving a line of offspring of lifetimes they’d otherwise have.
I don't want to open a can of worms, but... about 40 milion people are aborted each year...
Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev...
by layer8 on Friday August 04, 2023 @06:15AM
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Not to speak of the zillions of eggs and sperms that are deprived from combining with each other.
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by raducu on Monday August 07, 2023 @05:11AM
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And the mathematical amount of genetically unique people that can ever live...
Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev...
by gorbachev on Friday August 04, 2023 @05:09AM
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I think a majority of the people who want to live "forever" are the types of megalomaniacs who want to populate the earth with their own kind of uber mench, and will actually have more children than an average person.
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by wiseowise on Friday August 04, 2023 @08:41AM
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You read too much fiction.
There are millions of people who would love to just live their life.
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by ETH_start on Friday August 04, 2023 @08:15PM
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The vast majority of healthcare spending is incurred at the end of life, because when death really approaches, almost everyone wants to avoid it. People who are explicitly pursuing immortality are just thinking on a long-term basis instead of only reacting once they face the reality of mortality, in their impending death.
But amongst the popular left, there seems to be an aversion to competency and rationality, as they are symbolically linked to high status and social dominance. And so those who work deliberatively to end the scourge of aging and illness from humanity are—due to their displaying a rational results-oriented mindset—disdained.
If people could live for much longer then they’re likely disincentivised to procreate due to worries of overpopulation and then, in one way of thinking, you’re hypothetically depriving a line of offspring of lifetimes they’d otherwise have if you’d had what we consider a normal lifespan now.
Yes I realise there are probably an infinite number of takes on this, I’m just pointing out one possible way of looking at it for the sake of saying not all technological advances have universally positive outcomes.