Immortality, pro and con
Two popular articles on radical life extension have recently been making the rounds — dueling articles, in a sense,...
Tag: life extension
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The War on Dying, the Battle Against Aging (panel one)
The first panel today is on the science of life extension, with a typically crisis-laden title, “The War on...
Never Say Die! (an event)
Today I’m at a conference in Washington, DC, called “Never Say Die: A Future Tense Event,” held at...
The more you know… (about radical life extension)
Keep your eyes peeled when you’re using Hulu and Vimeo these days and you may notice the latest step in the...
Long Live the King
Aubrey de Grey, a great advocate of immortality, is not worried about “immortal tyrants” for three reasons. First,...
The problem with defending death
Todd May has a short essay on death at the New York Times‘s Happy Days blog. The argument is age-old (so to...
The Myth of Libertarian Enhancement, Cont’d
Our recent post about libertarian enhancement has received some pushback. For example, commenter Kurt9 says he believes...
The economics of magic pills: Questions for Methuselists
In its 2003 report Beyond Therapy (discussed in a symposium in the Winter 2004 New Atlantis), the President’s...
Methuselah speaks
[Continuing coverage of the 2009 Singularity Summit in New York City.] The conference’s last batch of talks is...