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Oh no, not a CGP Grey video. And a parable, at that!

It's a shame the humans in the story still die of natural causes, otherwise it might actually be relevant to the discourse around the ethics of life extension. The dragon is a metaphor for normal preventative diseases and does not scale well to the demographic crises caused by functional immortality.


The story was specifically written to provoke discussion around the ending of human senescence: https://nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon




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