If we became capable of significantly extending human lifespan, I wonder how our attitude towards preventing physical accidents would change
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This made me look up gun deaths since ofc. they've been in news. Perhaps separate category more directly connected to death w/o abstraction.
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as death rates from other causes have dropped over the past century, suicides have remained constant
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I was just thinking about implications in that direction!
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also something something about this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation …
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in 1900 just under 1% of deaths, now almost 2% of deaths - at some point it's going to be a majority (as with gun deaths)
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