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V_V comments on I have just donated $10,000 to the Immortality Bus, which was the most rational decision of my life - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: turchin 18 July 2015 01:13PM

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Comment author: V_V 19 July 2015 06:59:47AM 9 points [-]

"Zoltan Istvan is a man on a mission to end death. ... For whatever it's worth, Zoltan has been involved in extreme adventures his entire life, and is the inventor of volcano boarding (which is just like it sounds)."

I sense an inconsistency.

Comment author: Yosarian2 20 July 2015 09:22:38PM 3 points [-]

Not necessarily. I've heard some people describe the effort to end aging like this: "The goal isn't to live forever. The goal is to live to the age of 250 with the body of a 25 year old and then die in a freak skydiving accident."