death

this discussion was triggered to me after being prompted by PAIR 's application question.

It was as follows:

My university ethics project presenation, since there was too much text, and the presenations before me were super dull. I just played grey's video on mute, explianed the entire story and then skimmed through the slides explaining how ethically the stance that death should be accepted as something natural which is not necessarily right.

With complete honesty, I don't think my views go beyond what I've written, pratciallity of the whole death sucks vibe expressed thrugh my PAIR camp answers above.

I'm into longevity as well pretty actively and I'm attending salons quite irregualry in the series at Interintellect.

I'd highly reccomend anyone interested in #longevity to go through all the mateirals shared through the salon series at interintellect. They're agood a starting point. Even if you don't want to be apart of the community (which you should), I'm sure the hosts of the salon are very accessible people for any direct wisdom on the topic (consdiering the culture of ii).

Looping back to death, it sucks. I agree with every CGP grey video that says death really is horrible and the need for our minds to be transported into a machine after our physical body retards. sheesh. chills. 🔥 susprisingly so far, given my irregular social skills on dates, this has been by #1 topic to bring up when it comes to what do you want to do? It's just, i never want to die, cue an interintellect salon like discussion instead of a date.

the last enemy that shall be defeated is death; as global priortires post an agi world would come into light, to match the capabilities of minds of metal and wheels we will work towards senesence cures, brain augmentation and longevity increasement through BCIs and what not, and I'm here for it. Hopefully. Perhaps, being born in 2005 is too early - boy that actually happening and me too old for a transition into a robot would really suck.

all of this brings me to my broader view on life. suffering, unhappiness, suck, disease, death. overall, all of it. i wish none of it existed at the scale it does, and curing senesence would change the natural order, brining about a new world where timescales are different, lifespans ract differently and human beings are more capaable. we think beyond the fact that an extended lifespan would be redundant and complacnet. and rather how we would tyrn into a universe conquesting spceies.

it's only because of this view, every single time i meet a med student. or anyone interested in biology, telling me they have research or they're working towards research projects, i've repeatdely asked them if they could do some research on longevity and death, enticing them how crazy curing it would be.