It’s not generally possible to conduct controlled experiments of the effects of new technologies on society. Do you...
I can’t imagine what a pro-death position would look like in practical terms for that very reason; senescence is the...
OK, so to be clear, I don’t think that trading off lifespan for pleasure is unthinkable. I very much engage in pleasant...
I think that you are mostly not addressing my point, which is that *if* you have a tradeoff between long+sad and...
Evidence for me towards the “could make people less happy” side of things is that people would still rack up losses -...
I don’t think transhumanism makes any sense without an unconditional right to suicide. This is my main problem with...
I mean, I’d prefer to address things by restricting reproduction rather than withholding life-saving treatment, but...
Besides the other argument (that eliminating death wouldn’t even double our current population growth, and overall the...
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I agree that more attention should probably be paid to the social changes — both good and bad — that would come from...
ending nonconsensual death, literally, would mean everybody is not only forever young but also like, encased in armor or...
There might be problems. Don’t care. They cannot possibly be as bad as nonconsensual death.
It’s implausible that the downsides of immortality would be so bad that having nonconsensual death would be preferable....
At the same time, most people act like deaths are far more of a limiting factor to population than they actually are....
Debating whether nonconsensual death should be ended on a civilizational scale is all well and good, but I personally...
It probably *won’t* work that way. If we can get people to live to 150 we can probably get them to live to 1500 with...
Eh, I’m anti-death and I am absolutely on board for ending death immediately. Because I a) have trouble imagining a...