Help humankind defeat senescence and death by joining the Movement for Indefinite Life Extension (MILE). The MILE offers a way to gauge awareness of and support for indefinite life extension. One of the easiest and most important ways you can begin to make a difference in helping bring indefinite life extension about is to (1) go to the MILE Facebook page, (2) like the MILE on Facebook, (3) read and share the many informational, scientific, and philosophical pieces made available daily on the MILE page, and (4) spread the word to your friends and acquaintances who are already sympathetic to indefinite life extension.
Support for indefinite human life extension is a powerful, intellectually compelling, intuitive position. The best minds will arrive at it on their own, often quite early in life. The sheer injustice of a forced termination of life for a person who has committed no crime and harmed no fellow humans is enough to make a person of intelligence and decency recoil and resist.
Yet the society immediately surrounding the thoughtful proponent of indefinite life extension often does not agree. Culturally ingrained acceptance of “natural” death – be it the result of religion, tradition, Malthusianism, status quo bias or plain resignation – still has a hold on the majority of people. Often this leaves the forward-thinking critic of senescence and death feeling isolated and discouraged.
But it does not have to be this way. With the Internet, geographic separation no longer implies a separation of contact. Thinkers from around the world, who have independently come to the same realization regarding the supreme injustice of mandatory death for all, can find one another, share ideas, and cooperate toward achieving radical life extension in our lifetimes.
But to cooperate effectively, we need an effective way of knowing how many of us there are, what our fellow friends of long life are able to do and have accomplished already, what discoveries and breakthroughs scientists are releasing into the world, and where we can invest our own talents to accelerate the arrival of a time when increasing life expectancy will outpace the advent of senescence.
This is where the Movement for Indefinite Life Extension (MILE) comes in. The MILE Facebook page offers a way to gauge awareness of and support for indefinite life extension. One of the easiest and most important ways you can begin to make a difference in helping bring indefinite life extension about is to (1) go to the MILE Facebook page, (2) like the MILE on Facebook, (3) read and share the many informational, scientific, and philosophical pieces made available daily on the MILE page, and (4) spread the word to your friends and acquaintances who are already sympathetic to indefinite life extension.
The MILE aims to identify how many of us throughout the world already support indefinite life extension. Once this base of supporters is established, it will become easier to expand it by reaching out to others and spreading awareness that medical science may put the greatest triumph of all within our personal grasp. The MILE seeks to increase its supporters by an order of magnitude every year. The July 1, 2012, goal of 80 supporters was easily met. By July 1, 2013, the goal is to accumulate 800 supporters. By July 1, 2017, if the MILE can achieve 8 million supporters, we will have a critical mass of people to catalyze massive societal change – from investment into life-saving, life-extending research to political reforms that ensure that obsolete restrictions and special-interest privileges do not stand in the way of medical progress.
The MILE has fewer than 300 supporters left to reach its proximate goal. If you have not already spent five seconds going to the MILE Facebook page and clicking the “Like” button, I encourage you to do so at the earliest opportunity. If you have done so, you have my thanks and the thanks of all of us whose eventual long-term survival may be bolstered by your increment of support. We welcome and encourage your support in spreading the word to others who have already arrived at the realization that achieving radically longer lives is an urgent moral imperative. Surely, there are more than 800 of us out there already. We want to find out about and empower every person who has ever discovered the importance of indefinite life extension, so that the brilliant spark of aspiration will never be extinguished in any such thinker from lack of fuel.
There is more that you can do to show your support for indefinite life extension.
* Come up with opportunities for education and activism that will help spread awareness of indefinite life extension and encourage widespread support.
No matter who you are, or how new the ideas of indefinite life extension are to you, we would be delighted by your participation in the MILE and look forward to welcoming you as a valuable ally.
Enemy of Ruin – Quiz and Badge – Fifth in TRA’s Series on Indefinite Life Extension
The Rational Argumentator is proud to announce the fifth in its planned series of quizzes on indefinite life extension, a companion activity to the Resources on Indefinite Life Extension (RILE) page.
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Read “The Real War – and Why Inter-Human Wars are a Distraction” by G. Stolyarov II and answer the questions in the quiz below, in accordance with the essay. If you get 100% of the questions correct, you will earn the Enemy of Ruin badge, the fifth badge in The Rational Argumentator’s interactive educational series on indefinite life extension. You will need a free account with Mozilla Backpack to receive the badge.
This badge was designed by Wendy Stolyarov, whose art you can see here, here, and here.
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What are some manifestations of ruin? Note that you are able to choose multiple answers.
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Why, in Stolyarov’s view, are human creation and creativity insufficient for civilization to flourish and advance?
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What are two products of the intellect that can be deployed to win battles in the war against ruin? Pick two from the list below.
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Which of the manifestations of ruin has humankind already vanquished in the Western world? Note that you are able to choose multiple answers.
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According to Stolyarov, what needs to happen in order for us to save ourselves from ruin?
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According to Stolyarov, which of these best characterizes the condition necessary in order for humankind to make adequate progress against ruin?
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What is Stolyarov’s view of the historical Stoic and Christian attitudes toward ruin?
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What does Stolyarov consider to be a “good beginning” for humans to advance in the struggle against ruin?
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Longevity is Justice – Quiz and Badge – Second in TRA’s Series on Indefinite Life Extension
The Rational Argumentator is proud to announce the second in its planned series of quizzes on indefinite life extension, a companion activity to the Resources on Indefinite Life Extension (RILE) page.
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As of this moment, how many people have been sentenced to death?
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Which of the following actions does not decrease the rate of senescence?
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Which of the following organizations does not focus on the promotion of longevity science?
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Of the following methods of death, which is just for an innocent individual?
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Longevity Appreciation Quiz and Badge – First in TRA’s Educational Series on Indefinite Life Extension
The Rational Argumentator is proud to announce the first in its planned series of quizzes on indefinite life extension, a companion activity to the Resources on Indefinite Life Extension (RILE) page.
Read “Life is Worth Living – Forever” by G. Stolyarov II and answer the questions in the quiz below, in accordance with the essay. If you get 100% of the questions correct, you will earn the Longevity Appreciation badge, the first badge in The Rational Argumentator’s interactive educational series on indefinite life extension. You would need a free account with Mozilla Backpack to receive the badge.
This badge was designed by Wendy Stolyarov, whose art you can see here, here, and here.
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1. What is more boring: being alive for a long time or being dead?
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How many books will a person read over a lifetime if he could read one book per day for exactly 100 years?
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Approximately how many books were published per day in the United States and the United Kingdom combined in 2005?
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If you lived for 100 years and could read one book per day for each day of life, approximately how many days’ worth of published books would you be able to read in your entire lifetime, if books continued to be published at the rate they were published in 2005 in the United States and the United Kingdom combined? (Round to the nearest day)
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If you lived forever and read one book per day, approximately how many years would elapse before you would run out of books to read?
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In addition to reading many books, what category best describes the other interesting and desirable occupations you could engage in if you lived forever? Give the best possible answer.
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Based on what you learned from the “Life is Worth Living – Forever” essay and this quiz, what is one major hope we should have?