#3 – Aastha Jain: Should We Live Forever?
Jul 07, 2022•50 min
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Episode description
Links
* Blog post by Aastha: Contra Elon Musk on Lifespan Extension
Timestamps
1:05 - An important question: should we stop aging?
3:27 - What if people don’t change their minds?
5:35 - It’s in human nature to go against nature
7:14 - Contra Elon Musk on Lifespan Extension
15:20 - Greater chance for statism if a generation extends indefinitely?
18:26 - Population and pessimism
25:26 - Doesn’t death give life meaning?
34:56 - The importance of desire and changing our neurochemistry
41:15 - How far we’ve come in the field of longevity
49:40 - “I just want to live long enough until we defeat death”
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