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

Bret Kulakovich bret at bonfireproductions.com
Mon Jun 28 18:14:06 UTC 2004



Just a thought - take out second repeat of "pill" and replace with "one"

That way you don't trigger the pharmaphobia tick either.

Bret Kulakovich



On Jun 28, 2004, at 11:50 AM, 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?"
>
> "Five years" short-circuits the bogus philosophy.
> "Younger" short-circuits the medical worries.
> "A pill" makes it sound simple and cheap, mitigating worries about 
> social justice.
> "They developed" may bypass skepticism by invoking R&D.
> "How many" makes it clear that the user has a practical, 
> straightforward choice that will have a large but comprehensible 
> effect on his life, and further distances the question from practical 
> worries.
>
> I'd appreciate it if people would try this out on relative strangers 
> (not people who've already built up opinions on life extension) and 
> report their reactions.
>
> Chris
>
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> Director of Research
> Center for Responsible Nanotechnology          http://CRNano.org
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