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Comment author: Mirzhan_Irkegulov 21 May 2015 11:01:28PM *  6 points [-]

Yudkowsky obviously supports immortality. Quote from his letter on his brother's death:

If you object to the Machine Intelligence Research Institute then consider Dr. Aubrey de Grey's Methuselah Foundation, which hopes to defeat aging through biomedical engineering.

If SENS is not sufficiently promoted as a target for charity, I have no idea why is that, and I dispute that it's because of LW community's philosophical objections, unless somebody can convince me otherwise. BTW, EA community != LW community, so maybe lot's of Effective Altruists just don't consider immortality the same way the do malaria (cached thoughts etc).

Comment author: [deleted] 21 May 2015 11:31:40PM *  2 points [-]

If SENS is not sufficiently promoted as a target for charity, I have no idea why is that, and I dispute that it's because of LW community's philosophical objections, unless somebody can convince me otherwise.

To be clear this is not an intended implication. I'm aware that Yudkowsky supports SENS, and indeed my memory is fuzzy but it might have been though exactly the letter you quote that I first heard about SENS.

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