{"id":10406,"date":"2010-03-01T18:41:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T18:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/i-wouldnt-want-to-live-forever-even-if-given-the-choice\/"},"modified":"2010-03-01T18:41:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T18:41:03","slug":"i-wouldnt-want-to-live-forever-even-if-given-the-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/transhuman\/i-wouldnt-want-to-live-forever-even-if-given-the-choice.php","title":{"rendered":"&quot;I wouldn&#8217;t want to live forever even if given the choice.&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>- \"<i>What you mean is that you want to <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Signalling_(economics)\"><i>signal<\/i><\/a><i> that you're unselfish and virtuous to the point of self-sacrifice, but that if everyone around you was taking an anti-ageing pill, you'd take one too; you wouldn't pass it up and be the only wrinkly one. You also wouldn't kill yourself when you hit 78 in your futuristic young body, rather you'd look back with nostalgia on those mad days of youth when you thought that death was somehow good. By then you would have learned that you are running on corrupted hardware, and that a lot of your <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.overcomingbias.com\/2008\/11\/abstractdistant.html\"><i>far-mode<\/i><\/a><i> verbalizations are not really your true preferences. No offence meant - I had to go through this painful realization too.\"<\/i><\/p><p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/robert.wiblin?v=feed&amp;story_fbid=359599816290\">Robert Wiblin's Facebook<\/a>.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/7a090_7813164664144593334-1949568299469469445?l=transhumangoodness.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>- \"What you mean is that you want to signal that you're unselfish and virtuous to the point of self-sacrifice, but that if everyone around you was taking an anti-ageing pill, you'd take one too; you wouldn't pass it up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/transhuman\/i-wouldnt-want-to-live-forever-even-if-given-the-choice.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transhuman"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}