[ExI] Economics of SENS

samantha sjatkins at mac.com
Thu Jun 19 08:51:49 UTC 2008


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?
>
>
>   

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.

- samantha





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