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Happy birthday!

I always find arguments like Cave's bizarre.Mortality doesn't connect me to the future, it disconnects me from it.

For example, at this point (I'm currently 52), I'm a lot less interested in nanotech that I was back in the 1990s, when it seemed that it might deliver medical applications in time to be useful to me. If we had full diamondoid atomically-precise nanotech right now, it would take more than the ~25 years I have left for it to be applied to medicine (particularly aging) and to make it through the FDA gauntlet.Given this, "Apres moi, le deluge" applies and it has stopped making sense for me to look for ways to contribute to that field. (there is, say, a 1% correction to this because of my cryonics arrangements, but that isn't enough to alter my conclusion).

"Lord" is right - if we didn't age, we have a lower discount rate, and would be more interested in long term projects for our own sake.

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Marc Geddes's avatar

If you're alive you're #winning , make sure you keep #winning and you'll never die

#winning

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