An Evil Guest science errors

Dave Tallman · 05 Jan 2010, 21:47 · from 2010-January.txt.gz

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From: davetallman at msn.com (Dave Tallman)
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:47:48 -0700
Subject: (urth) An Evil Guest science errors
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Gwern Branwen wrote:

> The intuitive arguments are for exactly the opposite: if your lifespan
> is indefinitely long, you jeopardize indefinitely many years with
> violence or risk, whereas with aging, no matter the risk you take you
> can lose no more than 120 years of life. A ceiling on losses
> encourages risk-taking. (Consider recent financial bail-outs...)
For a Wolfe view of a world with unlimited longevity, look at 'The Doctor of Death Island.'

Life becomes meaningless, therefore cheap. Love is gone. The war between the sexes is literal. Etc.

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