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Topic
#1719

Radical Life Extension is more likely than not in our lifetime.

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The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.

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After 9 votes and with 63 points ahead, the winner is...

Singularity
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Description

For the purposes of this debate, and since radical life extension is such a vague term, I would like to define it as achieving a life expectancy of at-least 200 years old.

Our lifetime is a vague phrase/term as well, and to keep the debate from going off course, I would like to define it as the life expectancy of the average current 21 year old, in western society.

I would appreciate questions for clarification on the topic, because I want to avoid a semantics debate.

I meant cloud computing would be common use not common sense

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@Alec

I hope I am right also.

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@Singularity
@Gambit

Good luck to you both. And of course welcome to the site.

A resource I highly recommend using: http://tiny.cc/DebateArt

I hope singularity is right. I don't ever want to die.

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@Singularity

This looks like a fascinating topic for my first debate! I'll do my best to keep this interesting. Good luck!

Sounds interesting.

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@Singularity

Altered Carbon is largely an exploration of the idea of immortality, and even if we were all immortal through some means, how the upper class would be so much more immortal than everyone else.

Lexx had a brilliant musical episode, which tackles the downsides to immortality on the mental state. Not required viewing, but very entertaining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n7iIYhjiSQ

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@Alec

Seems silly you think that it isn't already implied in the title. I will edit to more likely than not, which also means more than 50%

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@Singularity

Add in your description: Likely- meaning 50% chance or higher or some percentage like that.

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@Barney

I have never seen those shows. I also think the hole you mentioned is not exploitable. Radical life extension does not have to be available for most or all people to be in existence.

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@Singularity

The exploitable hole I see right now, is someone could try to argue that children born in the third world will keep the life expectancy low. Which I don't think is the point of this debate, I am guessing you wish to argue that medical advances will enable someone alive today (let's say a young adult, 21 years old, and insanely wealthy) to live past 200 years. Not every 21 year old, and of course excluding violent ends...

Do you watch Altered Carbon? Or Lexx?

Changed it to likely

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@Alec

Some people think it is impossible to achieve be cause our genetics won't allow us to live that long regardless of technological intervention. Any suggestions for how to word this to debate the people who think radical life extension is impossible?

I also think it would be abusive to literally call anything possible and would not be like "well magic is possible" or anything like that

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@Alec

I'm going to change the resolution hold on

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@Singularity

Define possible. Anything´s possible, but how probable is this idea?