young people are still very unlikely to die and shouldn’t take minimizing death risk as a major life task except when considering doing actively risky things like skydiving, or putting oneself at risk of violence.
This is probably assuming that people have “normal” expected lifespans of something like 80-100 years. But if we take seriously ideas like the singularity and accelerating technological progress, perhaps we should be expectingmuch longer lifespans, in which case minimizing death risk would be an important life task.
Yes. There’s a reason why I would specifically tell young people not to refrain from action because they fear other students’ reactions, but I emphatically wouldn’t tell them to ignore fear or go against it in general.
This is probably assuming that people have “normal” expected lifespans of something like 80-100 years. But if we take seriously ideas like the singularity and accelerating technological progress, perhaps we should be expecting much longer lifespans, in which case minimizing death risk would be an important life task.
Yes. There’s a reason why I would specifically tell young people not to refrain from action because they fear other students’ reactions, but I emphatically wouldn’t tell them to ignore fear or go against it in general.