[extropy-chat] A new life/health extension meme...

[Eliezer Yudkowsky]

Chris Phoenix wrote:

> I've found that when I talk about life extension, or even health 
> extension, people start reacting weirdly; they worry about Alzheimers, 
> or the meaning of life, or social justice, or boredom...
> 
> I think I've come up with a way to introduce the topic without 
> triggering all that.
> 
> "If they developed a pill that would make you five years younger for 
> each pill you took, how many of them would you take?"

I'm torn between "one" and "two".  If I took three, I could learn to speak 
Japanese with no accent, but that probably wouldn't be a good idea right now.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence