Bryan Caplan finds one in Francis Fukuyama’s Our Posthuman Future:
Life extension seems to me a perfect example of something that is a negative externality, meaning that it is individually rational and desirable for any given individual, but it has costs for society that can be negative.
I couldn’t believe my eyes. Did Frank [...]
Aubrey de Grey is like the Alan Moore of transhumanism, both in surliness and in beard. GOOD asks him some basics:
G: I know you’ve heard this question before, but wouldn’t living for hundreds of years get a little boring?
AD: Yeah, right. Wouldn’t it be so terribly boring not getting Alzheimer’s? At least [...]
A fantastic article in SEED by David Sinclair on the potential of resveratrol:
In 2004 my lab teamed up with Dr. Rafael de Cabo at the National Institutes of Health to see if resveratrol could improve the health and extend the lifespan of mice. When middle-aged mice were fed a low-fat diet, resveratrol delayed [...]
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Pop Bioethics, written by Kyle Munkittrick, is an effort to study the ethics of the continuing evolution of the human species via the lens of pop culture and be somewhat entertaining in the process.
Kyle's writing can also be found at Discover's The Crux, Slate's Future Tense, and at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. For questions or comments: comments [at] popbioethics [dot] com
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