I know it is an offtopic but wow, this part about aging seems so—i don’t even know how to call it, someone would call it probably west-centered or white-centered—but for me it seems just insensitive and not smart.
I mean, of all the biological dramas like infectious diseases killing literally millions of children in Africa and Asia, a guy steps out and say—“hey we should really focus on making that canadian guy live 100 instead of 90 years!”.
As if death was an inherently bad thing. No, when it occurs naturally and peacufelly it is actually a good thing and essential for socio-economical circulation. We should accept this instead of fighting, and rather focus on tragic, premature and preventable deaths
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.
I know it is an offtopic but wow, this part about aging seems so—i don’t even know how to call it, someone would call it probably west-centered or white-centered—but for me it seems just insensitive and not smart.
I mean, of all the biological dramas like infectious diseases killing literally millions of children in Africa and Asia, a guy steps out and say—“hey we should really focus on making that canadian guy live 100 instead of 90 years!”.
As if death was an inherently bad thing. No, when it occurs naturally and peacufelly it is actually a good thing and essential for socio-economical circulation. We should accept this instead of fighting, and rather focus on tragic, premature and preventable deaths
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.