What's your take on this Nick Bostrom fable of conquering death/longevity research, re: your work? nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.h
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I just chatted with some of those guys about it if you have an hour to spare reviewthefuture.com/?p=408 basically I think it's great!
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but with the caveat that life-extension tech is CURRENTLY used on people without their consent, and that is bad
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You don't find the centralized dragon-metaphor and magic-bullet metaphor are scientifically off a little?
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Oh I meant longevity/immortality/uploading research in general - not referring to hellsims! hold on will read
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Listening right now. Very good stuff. Your book and Gawande's mortality book are high on my list now for unrelated reasons

