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"The first person to live to [200, 300, 500, 1000] has already been born"
RE: "The first person to live to [200, 300, 500, 1000] has already been born"
(December 14, 2015 at 5:26 pm)Amine Wrote: It's just a matter of time? What does that mean, like a million years? A billion? This is vague, and fatalistic. It's "a matter of time" particularly if we don't develop this technology. Why bother with anything at all? We all die in the end, right?

Far less than that.  It means that if people stopped dying, and continued to breed at current rates (or, lets softball it, 3rd or better generation first worlders rates) we would simply run out of stuff.  I know, there's "stuff" out in space....but getting it here is non-trivial, and were pretty far away from that.  Granted, the notion of global mobilization into space is more palatable than global sterilization.

@ Peng Who said anything about me killing Steve.......just one, "Andrew", but I do admit that I feel this way because I know a little bit about him. I'm already biased.
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RE: "The first person to live to [200, 300, 500, 1000] has already been born" - by The Grand Nudger - December 14, 2015 at 5:33 pm

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