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Study math now! With reverse ageing in the future you could potentially become one of the best in the field. There is time.

CamperBob2 10y ago
Sounds like an excellent excuse to not study math now.
- HiroshiSan 10y ago
  Aaah...procrastination. "I'll just wait t'ill I'm 150."
  - pavel_lishin 10y ago
    Reminds me of some lyrics I like: Throw it away, what's left to need When you’ve got infinity So much out there left to find We'll do that some other time
- nitrogen 10y ago
  ...and an excellent reason to put 100% of available resources into anti-aging research.
idlewords 10y ago
With reverse ageing, you'll just unlearn all that laboriously learned math.
- HiroshiSan 10y ago
  Benjamin button was a documentary ahead of its time.
- lkrubner 10y ago
  Seriously. Real increases in lifespan (I'm thinking about Louis Gridley Wu celebrating his 200 birthday) would have to involve (at least occassionally) revitalizing stem cells to renew the body at rates that would seem normal in a very young person. This would have to include nerve cells. Presumably, this would lead to a reversal of specialization. That implies memory loss ("memory" in all neurological senses: how to write software, but also how to speak English, how to control defecation, how to control urination. Really renewing one's central nervous system would rewind a person back to the unspecialized nervous system they were born with.)
  - judahmeek 10y ago
    So do it incrementally like the human body does with everything else so that fresh neurons can learn the roles of the neurons they are replacing.
  - sbierwagen 10y ago
    Why would you think that? Information is stored in the configuration of neurons, not in the neurons themselves. Neurons are constantly being replaced, and you don't wake up one morning not knowing how to bike because your "bicycle neuron" died.
    - Typhon 10y ago
      Neurons are constantly being replaced Are they ? As far as I know, neurons last more or less from before birth to death. There is neurogenesis in the hippocampus but it doesn't replace existing neurons, and the new cells themselves last until death.
      - Jarwain 10y ago
        Is this true for neurons that make up the nervous system as well? Or just neurons in the brain?

CamperBob2 10y ago

Sounds like an excellent excuse to not study math now.

HiroshiSan 10y ago
Aaah...procrastination. "I'll just wait t'ill I'm 150."
- pavel_lishin 10y ago
  Reminds me of some lyrics I like: Throw it away, what's left to need When you’ve got infinity So much out there left to find We'll do that some other time
nitrogen 10y ago
...and an excellent reason to put 100% of available resources into anti-aging research.

idlewords 10y ago

With reverse ageing, you'll just unlearn all that laboriously learned math.

HiroshiSan 10y ago
Benjamin button was a documentary ahead of its time.
lkrubner 10y ago
Seriously. Real increases in lifespan (I'm thinking about Louis Gridley Wu celebrating his 200 birthday) would have to involve (at least occassionally) revitalizing stem cells to renew the body at rates that would seem normal in a very young person. This would have to include nerve cells. Presumably, this would lead to a reversal of specialization. That implies memory loss ("memory" in all neurological senses: how to write software, but also how to speak English, how to control defecation, how to control urination. Really renewing one's central nervous system would rewind a person back to the unspecialized nervous system they were born with.)
- judahmeek 10y ago
  So do it incrementally like the human body does with everything else so that fresh neurons can learn the roles of the neurons they are replacing.
- sbierwagen 10y ago
  Why would you think that? Information is stored in the configuration of neurons, not in the neurons themselves. Neurons are constantly being replaced, and you don't wake up one morning not knowing how to bike because your "bicycle neuron" died.
  - Typhon 10y ago
    Neurons are constantly being replaced Are they ? As far as I know, neurons last more or less from before birth to death. There is neurogenesis in the hippocampus but it doesn't replace existing neurons, and the new cells themselves last until death.
    - Jarwain 10y ago
      Is this true for neurons that make up the nervous system as well? Or just neurons in the brain?