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Transhumanism is an amazing opportunity if we do it right. I think I saw something that they think the first person to live to be 1000 is alive today. I don't know how true that is but don't seem that far fetched
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Mona Lisa and mad hatters. Sons of bankers, sons of lawyers. Turn around and say good morning to the night. For unless they see the sky, and they can’t and that is why they know not if it’s dark outside or light. >

Kurt Vonnegut wrote a short story about his. What made immortality particularly nasty was the fact that the drug only cost pennies. >

Which story, Do you know? >

Counterpoint: longer time horizon for consequences of actions means more incentive for better behaviors, ethics, protecting the earth and ecosystems. Longer lived humans, even rolled out first to the wealthy, means fewer repeat mistakes and a lived experience of history that could be adaptive. As with other medical and mechanical innovations, these may be accessible to nonrich people before very long, as is the case with inventions like refrigerators, pacemakers, or a search engine. >

Oh yeah let’s just hope billionaires provide us poors a nice habitat in their eternal paradise… >

That depends on whether or not they can keep immortality out of the hands of the masses. If there is no fear of death, the little man will not let the ruling class keep him oppressed. >

I would imagine immortality in this case would only apply to not dying of old age. >

Not unless billionaires hord eternal life and make reguler people do the evolving for them