savedpass comments on Open thread, Jan. 26 - Feb. 1, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: savedpass 29 January 2015 11:57:58AM 4 points [-]

"It seems pretty egocentric while we still have malaria and TB for rich people to fund things so they can live longer. It would be nice to live longer though I admit."

Comment author: cursed 29 January 2015 11:33:56PM 1 point [-]

I like Bill's EA tendencies.

Comment author: Dirac_Delta 31 January 2015 09:26:14AM 0 points [-]

By that line of reasoning, we should not be funding space exploration and etc. either...

(I take his comment to mean that we should not be funding life extension research because it is egocentric.)