Why is this post so highly rated? As far as I can tell, the author is essentially saying that immortality will not happen in the future because it has not already happened. This seems obviously, overtly false.
One possibility among many: I suspect that lots of people, even among those who agree with him, see EY on some level as overconfident / arrogant / claiming undeserved status, and get a kick out of seeing him called out on it, even if not by name.
I think there is definitely something to that. I hesitated but voted it up; I don’t agree with it but it was interesting and tightly argued, and I was keen to hear the counterarguments.
Why is this post so highly rated? As far as I can tell, the author is essentially saying that immortality will not happen in the future because it has not already happened. This seems obviously, overtly false.
One possibility among many: I suspect that lots of people, even among those who agree with him, see EY on some level as overconfident / arrogant / claiming undeserved status, and get a kick out of seeing him called out on it, even if not by name.
Isn’t that exactly the sort of thing that this community is supposed to avoid doing, or at least recognize as undesirable and repress?
No.
It’s supposed to work at being better about such things.
I think there is definitely something to that. I hesitated but voted it up; I don’t agree with it but it was interesting and tightly argued, and I was keen to hear the counterarguments.