[ExI] Economics of SENS
Stathis Papaioannou
stathisp at gmail.com
Thu Jun 19 13:20:49 UTC 2008
2008/6/19 samantha <sjatkins at mac.com>:
> In part. The biggest obstacle in my opinion is that we (almost all
> humans) have become very, very good at making a virtue of or deeply
> accepting that which until recently no one much thought we could do
> anything about. That goes really deep.
Yes, I think this is far more significant than people not supporting
anti-ageing research because they think growing old and dying is a
good thing. In fact, I suspect that those who make such outrageous
claims do so mainly to console themselves in the face of what they
consider inevitable.
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Stathis Papaioannou
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