Discussion about this post

User's avatar
Overcoming Bias Commenter's avatar

That's a symptom. A fix for aging will cure it with the rest of the symptoms.

It's this sort of arrogant dismissal of problems that makes argument futile. You ask us to imagine a case where something is changed without any negative side effects, and when we question the validity of this assumption, you claim that we're ignoring your premise.

We're not. It's just a stupid premise.

Expand full comment
Overcoming Bias Commenter's avatar

A fix for aging might very well NOT cure growth in stubbornness and inflexibility. Evidence for this is the fact that young people are often stubborn and inflexible due to the fact that they haven't seen yet that there are any alternatives. Old people are often stubborn and inflexible because they are convinced that they have considered all the alternatives and already rejected them. A person who is 500 years old, even if he has a biological age of 25, might well be extremely stubborn and inflexible for this reason.

Expand full comment
26 more comments...

No posts