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6 Post author: BlackNoise 14 February 2014 08:27PM

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Comment author: hyporational 15 February 2014 05:21:06AM 0 points [-]

It is debatable, however, whether fixed-duration youthful and healthy life is necessarily worse than eternal life, as far as the continuing prosperity of the human race is concerned

I think this depends a lot on how cheaply you can train the new productive individual. If I died but you could create me again without cost at will, what's the loss?