<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">The production of exaggerated, hysterical, and flat-out wrong articles is the biggest growth industry. </div>Max</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Maybe we just have too much media. Journals of all sorts exist in incredible numbers and will publish nearly anything, most of which is unreplicable trash (in psych, anyway). All sorts of media has been filling the world with 'facts' and 'data' and I am getting numerous requests on Quora asking me to tell them how to tell what's true and what's false, and how to learn critical thinking abilities, how to detect biases, and all the rest. It is no wonder to me that any crazy, paranoid theory can find adherents. Who can tell it's crazy and paranoid? Apparently not many of us. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 1:36 PM Max More via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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No doubt you are seeing more and more articles claiming ecological overshoot. The production of exaggerated, hysterical, and flat-out wrong articles is the biggest growth industry. </div>
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The reality is different. I have a long reading list if you want to know more. </div>
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<div id="gmail-m_-6018250483496433110divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> on behalf of BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 6, 2021 2:36 AM<br>
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<div>On Thu, 5 Aug 2021 at 17:56, Max More via extropy-chat<br>
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> We told you so.<br>
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> Seriously, it's encouraging to see the "longevity dividend" idea get more attention. It should be a powerful tool to help people rethink their economic and research priorities. Can we please step on the accelerator with the anti-aging? I'm 57 and cryonics
is looking more and more likely for me.<br>
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> --Max<br>
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Yes, anti-aging is becoming essential for the survival of humanity.<br>
Not just so we can live longer, healthier lives, though.<br>
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I am encountering more and more articles about climate change that<br>
refer to ecological overshoot. In effect, saying that there is no<br>
solution to the problem without a wholesale change in the way humans<br>
look at living on this planet. And for the great majority of humanity<br>
that change in outlook will not happen because of the short lifespan<br>
of humans. They just don't think on the long-term scale of the<br>
necessary changes required. No generation wants to be the generation<br>
that has to give up all their lovely shiny toys. So they won't.<br>
Until the planet forcibly takes them away.<br>
By then the very survival of humanity itself will be questionable.<br>
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BillK<br>
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