alt Hacker NewsDario would like to ‘cure’ aging. He’s got some personal experience with bad illnesses, but aging isn’t that. I also have reduced trust for people who want to live forever and don’t have kids.
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> I also have reduced trust for people who want to live forever and don’t have kids.
I have reduced trust in people who make judgements about the value systems of others based on fairly meaningless characteristics.
> I also have reduced trust for people who want to live forever and don’t have kids.
Why are you only allowed to live forever if you have kids?
Seems like someone seeking immortality should be willing to do for the elixir if they want it even a little bit...
I would like him to cure aging too! I have kids, am I allowed to want to live indefinitely?
> I also have reduced trust for people who want to live forever and don’t have kids.
How so?
tbh we are trying to treat aging as a chronic illness and we probably will
I mean, if people start living forever, they better stop having kids... at least until we colonize other planets.
Probably should have left off the kids, but lets start with just distrusting anybody who wants to live forever. At the level of influence billionaires have, it is downright dangerous.
For everyone else confused: Think of all the people throughout history we would prefer would not have lived forever. Then multiple that by A LOT. Then consider how greedy and sociopathic most of the billionaire class is already.
Now, we could spend time getting distracted by childless. I don't think it matters.
Why? Who in their right mind would have children in 2026? Everything is burning, gone to shit, and projected to get worse. Having children is insanely irresponsible.
> I also have reduced trust for people who want to live forever and don’t have kids.
I want to live forever (or until I'm bored of it) and I don't have kids. I'm not sure what that has to do with trustworthiness.
Edit: And, you're saying you want to die. Is that more trustworthy than not wanting to die? I suppose if you are religious, you might believe you're going somewhere good when you die, in which case, you don't actually believe death exists, so we're having different conversations. I believe death exists and is permanent, and I'd like to not do that.