If you don't have time to read this very long (albeit great) piece, the tldr version is: http://tldr.io/tldrs/50b64589bb2203997700060f
Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality?
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#22Re: Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality?
#23If you don't have time to read this very long (albeit great) piece, the tldr version is: http://tldr.io/tldrs/50b64589bb2203997700060f
Thank you! Very useful.
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#24Re: Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality?
#25"Increasing human longevity has no meaning, it is ecological nonsense." This is an interesting quote from the article given by another biologist Stefano Piraino, not the main focus of the article. If we did find the secret to immortality, it would be stupid to give it to everyone. In that case, who gets it?
Easy: if you want to be immortal you have to be sterilized too.
And you can't adopt nor rent a womb.
There, no overpopulation problem.
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#26Spoiler: no.
Obviously. It's a jellyfish, it can't even talk.
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#27"Increasing human longevity has no meaning, it is ecological nonsense." This is an interesting quote from the article given by another biologist Stefano Piraino, not the main focus of the article. If we did find the secret to immortality, it would be stupid to give it to everyone. In that case, who gets it?
Easy: if you want to be immortal you have to be sterilized too. And you can't adopt nor rent a womb. There, no overpopulation problem.
Ridiculous. There's a lot more space in this universe than just planet Earth.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hacker News law of Betteridge's law of headlines: If the headline is applicable Betteridge's Law will always be mentioned.
That's because geeks like to back their answers with science (or almost science)
More like geeks like to prove they've already heard of the idea behind something.
Dropping the name Betteridge or Dunning-Kruger or Godwin tells everyone "I heard about this phenomenon before it was cool and even know the name for it".
Basically a geeky way to be a hipster.
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#29Who wants to live forever, when love must die!
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#30"Increasing human longevity has no meaning, it is ecological nonsense." This is an interesting quote from the article given by another biologist Stefano Piraino, not the main focus of the article. If we did find the secret to immortality, it would be stupid to give it to everyone. In that case, who gets it?
You are somehow imagining that this will be administered in a strictly controlled manner. It won't. In fact, I will be very sad if it's not part of the regular capitalist marketplace.
Will it lead to overpopulation? Yes. Bloody wars? Yes. Almost completely stagnant population? Suicides left and right by 200-y.o. people? Perverse class imbalance? Complete overhaul of society as we know it? Yesyesyesnotreally.
Because once you institutionalise and put such and such rules in place (a bureaucracy), people stop thinking. They stop thinking and become not people, but things - and they do it to themselves, willingly.
And that is the greatest crime of all.