The Times is doing "op-eds from the future," written as if published many years from now. And while most of them are from science fiction writers, the latest is from ... mehttps://nyti.ms/2XTREfv
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Imagine hating a group of people (tech billionaires) so much, you’re willing to sentence billions to an avoidable death just to spite them.
Exactly. Future people will cite this article as a classic example of the 'pro-death trance', as Aubrey de Grey calls it. The view that death is natural, and therefore good and necessary and ethical.
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Once you snap out of the pro-death trance, this whole worldview isn't just bizarre, it's so obviously immoral.
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This is an unconscious product of a conscious mind chiefly oriented to analog thinking, rooted in chronological impermanence.
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