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

Samantha Atkins sjatkins at gmail.com
Tue Jun 29 04:58:49 UTC 2004


On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 11:50:59 -0400, Chris Phoenix <cphoenix at crnano.org> 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 would take 2 first to see if they worked as advertised and without
bad effect.   If they had already been well-vetted I would skip this
step.  Eventually I would take enough to have a 25 year old body.  
Presumably this treatment does not wipe out 5 years of knowledge for
each 5 years of age it rolls back!
 
> "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 like it!



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