JEB_4_PREZ_2016

• JEB_4_PREZ_2016Aug 28, 2015, 1:20 AM

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  in reply to: Lumifer’s comment on: Why peo­ple want to die

  The question is, how much of this sentiment among the elderly is based on it being improbable that there will be affordable replacement organs or other “anti-aging” technologies in their lifetimes?

  Some of us 20-somethings are trying to decide whether to (A) go into YOLO mode or (B) sacrifice utility for the next 60 years in order to maximize expected utility for the next 1,000.

• JEB_4_PREZ_2016Aug 27, 2015, 11:57 PM

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  in reply to: Douglas_Knight’s comment on: Open thread, Aug. 10 - Aug. 16, 2015

  If you enter into a short sale at time 0 and cover at time T, you get paid interest on your collateral or margin requirement by the lender of the asset. This is called the short rebate or (in the bond market) the repo rate. As the short seller, you’ll be required to pay the time T asset price along with lease rate, which is based on the dividends or bond coupons the asset pays out from 0 to T.

  So, if no dividends/​coupons are paid out, it’s theoretically possible for you to profit from selling short despite no change in the underlying asset price.

• JEB_4_PREZ_2016Aug 27, 2015, 12:23 AM

  −1 points

  in reply to: Epictetus’s comment on: Why peo­ple want to die

  Makes sense. Thanks for the reply.

• JEB_4_PREZ_2016Aug 26, 2015, 10:51 PM

  −1 points

  in reply to: Epictetus’s comment on: Why peo­ple want to die

  If you asked me whether I’d like to live another thousand years (assuming no physical or mental degradation), I’d ask >myself “Why would I want to live 1,000 years?” and, failing to find an answer, decline.

  Isn’t the obvious answer, “because, assuming your life isn’t unbearably bad, living the next 1,000 years has higher expected utility than not living the next 1,000 years?”

  Responses like yours confuse me because they seem to confidently imply that the future will be incredibly boring or something. It’s possible, but the opposite could also be true. And even if it was unexpectedly bad, you’d still likely be able to opt out at any time.

• JEB_4_PREZ_2016Aug 24, 2015, 10:33 PM

  1 point

  on: Why peo­ple want to die

  Significant lifespan extension would change all of our cultural norms so much that it isn’t realistic to expect non-nerds to begin to wrap their heads around it in any meaningful way. And they sure as hell can’t be expected to change their minds about any of their core beliefs/​values, let alone the fact that they don’t want to live “forever.”

• JEB_4_PREZ_2016Aug 22, 2015, 11:11 PM

  1 point

  in reply to: [deleted]’s comment on: Robert Au­mann on Judaism

  Honestly, do people in the West really think Arabs actually believe 100% of the nonsense they spout?

  Yes. Maybe not 100%, but 75-95%.

• JEB_4_PREZ_2016Aug 22, 2015, 11:01 PM

  4 points

  in reply to: Fluttershy’s comment on: In­stru­men­tal Ra­tion­al­ity Ques­tions Thread

  Me too.

• JEB_4_PREZ_2016Aug 4, 2015, 3:24 AM

  −14 points

  on: We re­ally need a “cry­on­ics sales pitch” ar­ti­cle.

  God bless this post and God bless Aubrey de Grey.