Thiel is the true
. Whole interview is great on all the usual topics (crypto, AI, Trump, Silicon Valley) but ending question about striving for life extension/immortality was really interesting to hear him point out the cognitive dissonance we have around death.https://twitter.com/sknthla/status/1022495955910905856 …
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Reminded me of
@ESYudkowsky's brilliant passage from HPMOR:pic.twitter.com/7mDO9O7cvu
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Pratyush Retweeted Anton Troynikov
This is a great counter however: https://twitter.com/atroyn/status/1022525028057923585 … The downstream/second-order effects for humanity may be very bad and stunt progress in the long-term. Selfishly though, I'm still hoping we figure it out for the moment.
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Anton Troynikov @atroyn
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The explicit worry I have with indefinite life extension is that the cultural mores of a single generation will become permanently entrenched, since living longer automatically allows you to accumulate power and resources by virtue of just having more time.
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