While I haven’t downvoted your comment, I considered it briefly. Why?
Your reading of the initial statement is only one possible take on what could be meant, and it’s by far the most uncharitable reading. (Contrast to reading it as “I wasn’t planning on retiring, if we achieve biological immortality or updating technologies.”)
It’s a bit noisy. The thrust of the piece is in its quotation, which is relatively interesting. The poster’s beliefs which may be crazy don’t really affect it. It’s not in any way advocating those beliefs, merely mentioning them as they pertain to why the poster was interested in this.
While I haven’t downvoted your comment, I considered it briefly. Why?
Your reading of the initial statement is only one possible take on what could be meant, and it’s by far the most uncharitable reading. (Contrast to reading it as “I wasn’t planning on retiring, if we achieve biological immortality or updating technologies.”)
It’s a bit noisy. The thrust of the piece is in its quotation, which is relatively interesting. The poster’s beliefs which may be crazy don’t really affect it. It’s not in any way advocating those beliefs, merely mentioning them as they pertain to why the poster was interested in this.