Honestly I consider myself sympathetic to transhumanism but I cannot think of a more withering indictment of transhumanism than that, as human lifespans in industrialized countries have extended, the Overton window has gotten more and more comfortable with tyrannical gerontocracy
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
In theory the reductio ad absurdum of this is just no new babies being born anymore and just having a permanent immortal population, like 17776 Presumably eventually age differences would become irrelevant eventually
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Like how once you're in your 40s the people who were baby high school freshmen when you were a cool high school senior are basically the same age as you now
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