Sure they would. If some random nobody was living forever without aging, they would still get noticed, as Joseph Curwen discovered.
The PTB are not random nobodies, and Curwen is fictional.
It's funny to me that you can't recognize the sardonic quality of the post (e.g. reference to becoming a "sequoiah farmer."
I can recognise many things in the post. I can imagine he's not serious, and recognise non-seriousness in the post. I can imagine he's lost it and means every word, and recognise that in the post. I can imagine it's an idiot test to judge his commenters by their responses, and recognise that in the post. I can read all of these things into the post as easily as each other, which means I don't know which, if any, is the true meaning. But there is that internal inconsistency about who and what he thinks the PTB are.
The PTB are not random nobodies, and Curwen is fictional.
Seems like you missed the point. I mentioned the example of Joseph Curwen as an illustration, not as evidence. The basic point is that it does not matter how famous/obscure someone is, if they just stay young forever, people will notice. And the idea is that they prefer to remain unnoticed. So the obvious solution is to kill off the old identities every so often and start over in some other place under some new identity.
So that makes it clear that there is no inconsistency in Cochrane's scenario....
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