[ExI] Fwd: Scientists remain PC

Jonathan El-Bizri srndpty at gmail.com
Mon Jul 28 22:15:17 UTC 2008


On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 7:16 AM, Dagon Gmail <dagonweb at gmail.com> wrote:

> This issue will only be resolved if suddenly our anticipated lifespans go
> up by a century
> and we have to start imagining how the world will be by then. Right now it
> is just to easy
> to leverage hidden costs over the fence into the neighbor's pond, or dump
> the costs of
> resource depletion, irreversible environmental decay, species extinction or
> overpopulation
> to your grand-children's world because you don't have to live in that shit.
>
>
> My single best argument we need immortality treatments in the 7/11 NOW.
> Once people
> have to face consequences they'll change their tune really fast. I see no
> other way to
> resolve many of our problems.
>

Increasing lifespans by a hundred years won't change things until those
lifespans become part of human culture. The cognitive biases that cause this
world destroying behaviour, some implicit in human neurology, some learned
from our social environment, won't be addressed if people only think they
might live to be a few hundred years old, rather than actually having lived
it.

Jonathan El-Bizri
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