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0 pointsreasonattlm15y ago0 comments

You could focus on supporting the cryonics industry instead, if your judgement is that you're on the wrong side of the line no matter what. The same point stands: if you are blinkered, you will not do this.

http://www.longevitymeme.org/topics/cryonics.cfm

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nir15y ago

The author is not going to single handedly push forward the cryogenics or life extension industries.

Maybe life will be significantly longer in the near future, maybe not. In the 60s we expected moon colonies around now and in the 50s top researchers considered AI almost around the corner. Science predictions are meaningless. From what I see right now my parents at their 60s aren't much different from my grandparents at the same age.

jonhendry15y ago

Cryonics is just magical thinking. You might as well read 'The Secret' and request eternal life from the Universe.

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