Comments on: The Other Side of the Immortality Coin https://lifeboat.com/blog/2007/09/the-other-side-of-the-immortality-coin Safeguarding Humanity Mon, 17 Apr 2017 05:27:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 By: Chris K. Haley https://lifeboat.com/blog/2007/09/the-other-side-of-the-immortality-coin#comment-14946 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:32:27 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=92#comment-14946 “…the A-Prize currently has a grand total of three donors: myself, Sergio Tarrero, and one anonymous donor. This is probably a result of insufficient publicity, though.”

Great article, Michael, and now you have four!

]]> By: stuart https://lifeboat.com/blog/2007/09/the-other-side-of-the-immortality-coin#comment-10822 Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:12:39 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=92#comment-10822 “It’s easy to understand why. Life extension therapies are a positive and happy thing, whereas existential risk is a negative and discouraging thing.”

This is true, but not a plausible explanation for why people don’t spend much time thinking about it. People LOVE imagining our doom. Y2K, global warming, nuclear holocaust etc. I have many friends who claim to believe that the odds of human annihilation in the next 100 years are very good indeed.

Most likely they think that the technology will not exist that can do these terrible. I’d use people’s pessimism to explain it, not a desire to avoid thinking about nasty things.

]]> By: tom.mccabe https://lifeboat.com/blog/2007/09/the-other-side-of-the-immortality-coin#comment-10756 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:51:19 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=92#comment-10756 “One argument I have against the “life extension” can be summed up in two words–food and resources.”

See http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/tom/?p=18.

]]> By: Darnell Clayton https://lifeboat.com/blog/2007/09/the-other-side-of-the-immortality-coin#comment-10753 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:20:25 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=92#comment-10753 One argument I have against the “life extension” can be summed up in two words–food and resources.

How are you going to feed, and provide for all of “us immortals” if none of us die? (as humans tend to consume an awful lot of resources).

As far as the other risk you mentioned before, I agree. The greatest risk to humanity is humanity, and neither going to space or extending our lifespan is going to save us from ourselves.

Unless of course the machines take over. ;-)

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