Population capacity gets larger as technology improves, so it’s not obvious we’ll reach maximum capacity in the near future (next centuries). Regardless of this, even if we reached it, the impact of aging research wouldn’t be impacted, because impact comes from making LEV closer, not from guaranteeing LEV’s existence. You will find answers in the second post of the framework: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/uR4mEzMR7fiQzb2c7/aging-research-and-population-ethics
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Population capacity gets larger as technology improves, so it’s not obvious we’ll reach maximum capacity in the near future (next centuries). Regardless of this, even if we reached it, the impact of aging research wouldn’t be impacted, because impact comes from making LEV closer, not from guaranteeing LEV’s existence. You will find answers in the second post of the framework: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/uR4mEzMR7fiQzb2c7/aging-research-and-population-ethics
Notice that the post you are commenting under is just the first in a series. I already published four of them! Here the second, third and fourth. There are more to come, and I also plan to do some interviews with organizations. I suggest you read what I wrote so far and get back if you have more doubts and still want more pieces of information or a primer on the field. It will be probably useful for you to subscribe to my posts through the “Subscribe to this user’s posts” option in my profile.