Comments on: wanna live forever?

wanna live forever?

leotrotsky — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:40:24 -0800

fable of the dragon-tyrant 'an actual fable with an actual moral.'

By: leotrotsky

leotrotsky — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:43:01 -0800

Escape Velocity: Why the Prospect of Extreme Human Life Extension Matters Now
Q&A with Aubrey de Grey

By: leotrotsky

leotrotsky — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:45:34 -0800

and while we're at it, a couple of blogs shanghai-ed from the Glenn Reynolds article: fightaging and futurepundit. So, are we hearing all about this because the technology is getting closer, or because the baby-boomers are getting the first glimpses of their own mortality?

By: andycoan

andycoan — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 12:02:45 -0800

Well, that was fifteen minutes of my life I'll never get back again...

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:05:00 -0800

You know I'm born to lose and gamblin's for fools But that's the way I like it baby I don't want to live forever

By: ed\26h

ed\26h — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:55:39 -0800

Didn't expect to see this here. Seen his simulation argument?

By: Wulfgar!

Wulfgar! — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:08:07 -0800

Well, that was fifteen minutes of my life I'll never get back again... Yes, and masturbating for you is 30 seconds of your life you'll never get back. What's your point? I think there's a particular strength to this parable concerning quality of life. The rather ham-handed application of it to aging is a bit off-putting, however, when there are so many other dragons that threaten the quality of the lives that we hold dear, and yet we accept them with resolute calm. How many times must we just swallow the idea that "war is hell", or that poverty is too big a problem to deal with. The list goes on from there, but the strength of this story is to shine a little light on the huge lengths that humans will go to simply to accommodate a horrible circumstance. ed/26h, got a link? I'd like to see it.

By: ed\26h

ed\26h — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:16:37 -0800

Wulgar: Here. A while ago, a friend and I had the idea of sending Bostom's CV in to apply for certain menial jobs. McDonald's worker, cleaner etc. Amused us at the time. Still does.