[ExI] Economics of SENS

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Tue Jun 17 18:07:11 UTC 2008


On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Aleksei Riikonen <aleksei at iki.fi> wrote:

 > Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
 >> Is it plausible that the reason more money isn't spent on SENS is that
 >> people have neglected important positives in the cost-benefit
 >> analysis, rather than simply because they don't believe it is likely
 >> to work?

 > Cost-benefit analyses have next to nothing to do with how humans
 > usually make decisions.

That's what Stathis just said.




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