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Well, if you’ve built a career on something, you will usually actively resist anything that threatens to destroy it.

In other words, what is progress for the field might not be progress for you !

This reminds me of Thomas Kuhn’s excellent book ´the structure of scientific revolutions’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Re...

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It reminds me much more of Paul Feyerabend's even better book "Against Method" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Method

Or Planck's principle - "Science progresses one funeral at a time".

And the more general version, “Humanity progresses one funeral at a time.” Which is why the hyper-longevity people are basically trying to freeze all human progress.

Or Effective Altruism's long-termism that effectively makes everyone universally poor now. Interestingly, Guillaume Verdon (e/acc) is friends with Bryan Johnson and seems to be pro-longevity.

Can you elaborate?

Long-termism is essentially a utilitarian doctrine, but uses the "total utilitarianism" method:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_and_total_utilitariani...

Take that moral position and then extend the calculation to cover all potential generations of humans to come, and the value of maximising your utility now is infinitely small.

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