[marcheradiuju]

A follow-up thought, because this topic has haunted my mind today. A comment elsewhere in this post gestured to Malthusianism, referencing the failures of past societies to predict future advancements. That reminded me that the Repugnant Conclusion becomes all-too-real in a world of extended lifespan, and no amount of techno-optimism can solve for this problem. Bioavailability and the zero sum nature of resource management demands that we respect and solve the issues of population ethics as an integral step alongside lengthening lives. It's one thing to rebuild society with legible (!) cultures to fit the new world, but its wholly another to hand-wave uncounted suffering for the pipe-dream of living longer.

Nobody picks their birth. I can easily imagine ten people sorting toxic garbage their whole (short, brutish) lives to enable the decadence of each member of the future the centenarian ruling class. If we want to avoid such a scenario, we do so by acknowledging and integrating the studied solutions of population ethics, today.