Oligopsony comments on Open Thread, December 16-31, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Oligopsony 23 December 2012 03:00:52AM 1 point [-]

I hope that deathism remains a powerful ideology, such that if radical life extension becomes possible, I can opt out with minimal social consequence. I may be generalizing from one example, but strongly suspect that LW overestimates the number of people who would genuinely prefer to live forever relative to those who could be socially coerced into it. I also suspect this is already true in the case of ordinary life extension, for which no deathist safeguards are in place.

Comment author: Alicorn 23 December 2012 03:04:41AM 6 points [-]

I for one am willing that those whose considered, sober preference is death be allowed to die. I don't think this requires deathism, just voluntarism; I think keeping deathism a powerful and current force in our memeplex would be overkill (so to speak) for this desideratum.