Risk aversion, immortality, and science fiction

by on January 16, 2004 at 8:22 am in Books, Economics | Permalink

Jacob Levy, following up on my earlier discussions (click here, here, and here) considers how immortal characters in fiction have behaved. Many but not all are extremely risk-averse. Part of the basic thread is how immortality would change our behavior. Randall Parker argues that immortality would not alter our behavior much, at least not until we could alter our genetic programming.

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