In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.951108035907.21059A-100000 at minerva>, "Paul
Boduch (ES 1997)" <pboduch at minerva.cis.yale.edu> wrote:
> Can those of us who still haven't figured out the secrets of immortality
> at least try to do so in *my lifetime*(for obvious reasons)?
> Then we can decide how elitist we want to be in sharing the information
> considering the population growth problem.
I'm not too sure that it's just a matter of dealing with the 'population
growth problem'. In fact, as I've pointed out several times on
sci.life-extension, that one's a red herring anyway.
The real issue is one of self-preservation. I have enough faith in the
power of human stupidity to suspect that, if someone came along tomorrow
and waved a readily manufacturable recipe for significantly extending the
human lifespan in people's faces somebody'd probably kill him, and pretend
that his discivery/invention was crap.
Wizard's First Rule: people are stupid.
Apart from that, I share your sentiments about getting these things done
in our life-time!
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