From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Apr 24 2002 - 00:14:57 MDT
"Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
>
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Dan Fabulich wrote:
>
> > > chris arkenberg <carkenbe@adobe.com> wrote:
> (this may not be a quote from chris since the attribution may
> be lost...)
> > > >So the question is: does my personal financial contribution to
> > > >immortality research probably matter quite a lot? Or does it probably
> > > >matter fairly little?
>
> It probably matters to the extent of ~150,000 people per day
> that die from aging associated causes. On an annual basis,
> that is more people than were killed in WWII (over several years).
Point of order: I don't know what percentage of the planetary death rate is
due to aging, but I sincerely doubt it's 100%. Antiaging research is not
the same as immortality research.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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