[extropy-chat] Yehuda Yudkowsky, 1985-2004

[Damien Broderick]

The real tragedy, the tragedy that will continue to evade future effective 
life extension treatments and any system of Big Benevolent AI intervention 
short of total surveillance and dictatorial control, is that those who 
choose to end their own lives will do so. Arguably we must respect their 
decision, while grieving that it is so. We can hope to help and support 
them in their suffering or misery or despair--if they choose to let us know 
about it--but death remains a choice always available to every individual 
(except for those who most wish it, trapped in a hospital or hospice bed).

Damien Broderick