alt Hacker NewsNot the argument I expected. I'm also against people living forever, but more because it's a way for society to go forward and get rid of old ways of thinking. There's a saying that science advances one death at a time. And can you imagine a world where current leaders are still in power 1000 years later? Or where the leaders of 1000 years ago were still in charge? Whenever I hear people talk about living forever I think of how it'd be something tech billionaires and autocrats would use to oppress us forever. No thanks.
I'm also against people living forever, but more because it's a way for society to go forward and get rid of old ways of thinking.
Well, I'd like to get rid of the old way of thinking that death is good :p
And can you imagine a world where current leaders are still in power 1000 years later?
Leaders generally don't rule for life in functioning countries, and the mortality of individual Kims has not helped the people of North Korea.
I think of how it'd be something tech billionaires and autocrats would use to oppress us forever.
How are these people currently oppressing you, and how would the existence of longevity treatments make that worse?