1.1 Billion people to die...

[self biased]

You'll live a long life...of utter boredom...

i will never be bored so long as i have Civ.

[Elok]

I don't see what dragons have to do with aging.

There was this rather clumsy parable written comparing senescence to an immortal dragon that kept eating more and more people until science learned how to kill it. Then people argued whether it was right to kill the dragon until some little kid whined about how the dragon took his grandmother. Then they were all for it. The lesson: all heavy moral questions should be solved by consulting the nearest prepubescent child. Or something.

Both that parable and the link glibly brush Malthus aside by pointing out that technological advances have allowed us to produce a lot more food. I expect the authors are also fond of endless reliance on fossil fuels (people have been saying they'll run out for decades now, so plainly they never will) and nuclear proliferation (Armageddon? Psssht, get back to 1954, grandpa).

[Alinestra Covelia]

The lesson: all heavy moral questions should be solved by consulting the nearest prepubescent child.

Have some decency. Michael Jackson is dead, you heartless swine!

[Elok]

Okay. All heavy moral questions should be solved by consulting the nearest prepubescent child and offering him/her a hefty dose of "Jesus juice." Better?

[Heraclitus]

Be aware that virtually all 6.5 Billion people alive today will be dead within 100 years. If anyone could figure out how to prolong people's lives without further deterioration, they would be very rich. So people try. But prolonging one's life from say 90 to 102 when those last twelve years are spent deteriorating and demented does not seem like a good idea.

Didn't read my link... what yoiu did there was a simple Tithonus error



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-aging_trance

Read the link its just a line or so.

[Heraclitus]

I don't see what dragons have to do with aging.

The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant by the transhumanist philosopher Nick Bostrom

http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html

[Heraclitus]

i will never be bored so long as i have Civ.

QFT


Come on even someone with no imagination whatsoever could surley spend a century well amused by video games alone.

[Heraclitus]

I believe it is because we failed to keep up the human sacrifices.

Oh someone remembers my old thread.

[Heraclitus]

Both that parable and the link glibly brush Malthus aside by pointing out that technological advances have allowed us to produce a lot more food. I expect the authors are also fond of endless reliance on fossil fuels (people have been saying they'll run out for decades now, so plainly they never will) and nuclear proliferation (Armageddon? Psssht, get back to 1954, grandpa).

If the solution to Malthus is to let people die then why the hell are we sending aid to the third world. Also why don't we waste medical resources on people over 60?



They aren't relying on fossile fules, heck if we implimented nuclear tech on a wide scale we could easily power our civ. The green revolution is unsustainable.


Also you make the silly assumption that we would share the tech with the third world. If only western devils live for 1500 years with brithrates as low as 1.3 we still have a manageable population growth.

[Dis]

this girl has the cure for aging. I actually hope they don't prolong life. The world is overcrowded as it is.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529036,00.html

[Space05us]

16 and can't talk, she is so physically a baby that her brain hasn't developed?

As for overcrowding, very few people die of "old age". Even if there were a way to extend humans natural life span to infinity people would die from malnutrition, cancer, swine flu, good old fashioned war and so on.

[Heraclitus]

I actually hope they don't prolong life. The world is overcrowded as it is.

I don't really understand you, we are already prolonging life. Average lifespans are about 50% longer than they where a century ago. Should we stop doint this as well?


Why should people be forced to die if they don't want to?

[EPW]

We are all going to die, even if we find a "cure" for aging. Get over it.

[Heraclitus]

I don't have a problem with death. I'm willing to settle for a couple of thousand years even 500 would be pretty nice.

What really bothers me is people have this wierd thing about considering aging "natural" its no more or less natural than dying from cancer or from a infection. Would it be so horrible to give people a choice to live for ~1500 years if they feel like it? Why aren't we spending more money on eliminating the single biggest cause of death in the Western world? Why do waste trillions of dollars on treating the symptoms of age related diseases of millions of elderly people instead of just curing aging?

[Thoth]

Have some decency. Michael Jackson is dead, you heartless swine!

Good riddance to bad rubbish.


(did anyone remember to cut off his head and put a stake through his heart so he stays that way?)