Aubrey De Grey wants to radically extend life

[iwanttodie019]

Sure ,the aging process causes suffering.

But here are a few problems with trying to radically extend life(off the top of my head):---

1)Population explosion
2)extending life means extending suffering
3)Bad people living for a prolonged time.Imagine the miscarriage of justice.
For example someone does something very evil(for example rapes and murders someone) and gets away with it and then he gets to live for centuries

and btw death will always remain inevitable because of entropy.
A wise man once said
"fighting against the inevitable(entropy/death) is dumb and stupid "

Do you support radical life extension technologies?

 

[INYGTRMTFMO]

Bad people living for a prolonged time.Imagine the miscarriage of justice.
For example someone does something very evil(for example rapes and murders someone) and gets away with it and then he gets to live for centuries

Conversely, they could make things like "three life sentences" an actual threat, ie "You did something so heinous and atrocious that you need 300 years to think about what you did and how awful it is".


I think it's a good option for those who want it; if you're enjoying life and have the means accessible to keep doing that, why not go for it?

Would I extend my own lifespan? Probably not; as long as I outlive my parents and see my daughter off into an adult life, 60-80 years is enough. But if others want to, then who am I to deny them that?

The risks you listed could be mitigated if the rest of science catches up to it. For population, for example, if the science is there to drastically extend the lifespan, then the science would ideally also be there to create more effective contraceptives and birth control, to make a Morning After pill that is 100% effective or as close to it as feasible, and maybe even to transplant an embryo/fetus from the uterus of a person who does not want to be pregnant to that of one who does. And maybe we could also better treat suffering, ie better treatments for mental health conditions and trauma, ways to produce food and housing that is significantly most cost-effective and therefore more accessible, ect.

 

[iwanttodie019]

Conversely, they could make things like "three life sentences" an actual threat, ie "You did something so heinous and atrocious that you need 300 years to think about what you did and how awful it is".


I think it's a good option for those who want it; if you're enjoying life and have the means accessible to keep doing that, why not go for it?

Would I extend my own lifespan? Probably not; as long as I outlive my parents and see my daughter off into an adult life, 60-80 years is enough. But if others want to, then who am I to deny them that?

The risks you listed could be mitigated if the rest of science catches up to it. For population, for example, if the science is there to drastically extend the lifespan, then the science would ideally also be there to create more effective contraceptives and birth control, to make a Morning After pill that is 100% effective or as close to it as feasible, and maybe even to transplant an embryo/fetus from the uterus of a person who does not want to be pregnant to that of one who does. And maybe we could also better treat suffering, ie better treatments for mental health conditions and trauma, ways to produce food and housing that is significantly most cost-effective and therefore more accessible, ect.

"Conversely, they could make things like "three life sentences" an actual threat, ie "You did something so heinous and atrocious that you need 300 years to think about what you did and how awful it is".

I said gets away with it