From: Mike Linksvayer (ml@gondwanaland.com)
Date: Mon Apr 22 2002 - 23:23:42 MDT
On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 18:27, Dan Fabulich wrote:
> So, I'm finally reaching a stage in my life where I can start thinking
> about saving and investing a significant chunk of my income...
[...]
> (I'm 22.)
Congratulations! I didn't get there till 26. I'm now 32 and currently
un-saving. :-(
> So the question is: does my personal financial contribution to
> immortality research probably matter quite a lot? Or does it probably
> matter fairly little?
Your financial contribution probably matters not at all. To "probably
matter" your contributions would have to be massive (even then money is
only one bottleneck, and to make such massive contributions you'd need
to first get very, very rich, which probably won't happen even if it is
your only goal) or you have to be fairly certain that you know the
pathway to immortality, and this pathway isn't and probably won't get
significant funding elsewhere and your contribution is large (I'd be
very skeptical of such knowledge, though you could probably get rich
enough to make such contributions with that as your goal). Similar
arguments for non-financial contributions.
Mike Linksvayer
http://gondwanaland.com/ml/
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