Is Immortality Ethical? - LessWrong

Summary: At a steady state of population, extended lifespan means taking resources away from other potential people. Technology for extended life may not be ethical in this case. Because we are not i…

x Is Immortality Ethical? — LessWrong Personal Blog -3 Is Immortality Ethical? by harsimony 25th Jan 2021 Linkpost for harsimony.wordpress.com 4 min read 7 -3 Summary: At a steady state of population, extended lifespan means taking resources away from other potential people. Technology for extended life may not be ethical in this case. Because we are not in steady state, this does not argue against working on life extension technology today. Many people research radical life extension, dreaming of a day when we might live forever. But I fear that advocates of life extension have overlooked an

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