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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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