Downvoted: There are multiple problems, and different people can work on different ones. Pointing to one problem and saying it should be addressed isn’t the same as saying work should be halted on all the other ones.
I also think that acting as if the Bostrom quote is about saving Canadians in particular is a bad misreading. Bostrom is using the population of Canada to give a sense for the size of the problem, not to call for a focus on Canadian aging. Cures for aging would probably be invented in the west, but could then be extended to Africa and Asia—people die from aging in those regions, too.
I think your objection in the final paragraph, about death being a good thing is a reasonable one—it’s certainly a popular belief. But your first two paragraphs are… arguing dirty.
Downvoted: There are multiple problems, and different people can work on different ones. Pointing to one problem and saying it should be addressed isn’t the same as saying work should be halted on all the other ones.
I also think that acting as if the Bostrom quote is about saving Canadians in particular is a bad misreading. Bostrom is using the population of Canada to give a sense for the size of the problem, not to call for a focus on Canadian aging. Cures for aging would probably be invented in the west, but could then be extended to Africa and Asia—people die from aging in those regions, too.
I think your objection in the final paragraph, about death being a good thing is a reasonable one—it’s certainly a popular belief. But your first two paragraphs are… arguing dirty.