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I am sure they will be shared with as many people as can a) afford it and b) are of a similar mindset to the gate keepers.

joe_the_user 9y ago
Will it be: "Can afford it AND are of similar mindset" or would it be "OR". Just much, the ultimate cost is big question. The only way to make a breakthrough imo is some combination of procedures that cut the Gordian knot of current health care processes and ways to automate these processes. Together, this may be cheaper than artisanal Cancer care and research - well especially if it could be done without royalty payments in Costa Rica. So whether the knowledge gets out is a big question - cue the secrecy question again.
- pmoriarty 9y ago
  "Just much, the ultimate cost is big question." There's a really interesting Radiolab episode that deals with this question.[1] To quote from the episode: "What do you do if you have a really expensive drug that's really, really good? ... Everyone that I know pointed me to this new drug, it's called Sovaldi... it is a drug that treats Hepatitis C, which is caused by a virus, and the disease itself goes to work on your liver, it inflames it, it scars it, it can cause liver cancer, cirrhosis, it can be fatal, and for the longest time the treatments that they had weren't that great or they just had wretched side effects, and along comes Sovaldi. It's one pill, twelve weeks, you take it with some other antiviral meds, it's a super simple treatment option, and the side effects are very minimal. It was kind of like the wonder drug. So a lot of doctors start to prescribe it. In the first half of 2013 70,000 people in the United States were treated, and it had a 95% rate of cure, in other words the virus was erradicated... but this drug costs $1000 dollars a pill, for one pill that I take one a day..." Now imagine how much a cure for aging would cost. [1] - http://www.radiolab.org/story/what-year-life-worth/ http://www.radiolab.org/story/what-year-life-worth/
  - joe_the_user 9y ago
    Sure, priced like a contemporary drug, the price of a life extender would infinite. But then again, priced like a contemporary drug, the price of air or water would be infinite too. Fortunately, we have much of this around, so far, for nearly nothing (air more than water, so far again). What about the Hep C drug makes it expensive? The research? The production process? The patents racket? If you knew the recipe could you make it in your basement with some ingredient of modest cost? Of expensive cost?
65827 9y ago
We're google, we love you! As long as you're not a gunowner. Or whatever other group we decide to label as undesirables in the future.
- carapace 9y ago
  No elixir for you 65827!

joe_the_user 9y ago

Will it be: "Can afford it AND are of similar mindset" or would it be "OR". Just much, the ultimate cost is big question. The only way to make a breakthrough imo is some combination of procedures that cut the Gordian knot of current health care processes and ways to automate these processes. Together, this may be cheaper than artisanal Cancer care and research - well especially if it could be done without royalty payments in Costa Rica. So whether the knowledge gets out is a big question - cue the secrecy question again.

pmoriarty 9y ago
"Just much, the ultimate cost is big question." There's a really interesting Radiolab episode that deals with this question.[1] To quote from the episode: "What do you do if you have a really expensive drug that's really, really good? ... Everyone that I know pointed me to this new drug, it's called Sovaldi... it is a drug that treats Hepatitis C, which is caused by a virus, and the disease itself goes to work on your liver, it inflames it, it scars it, it can cause liver cancer, cirrhosis, it can be fatal, and for the longest time the treatments that they had weren't that great or they just had wretched side effects, and along comes Sovaldi. It's one pill, twelve weeks, you take it with some other antiviral meds, it's a super simple treatment option, and the side effects are very minimal. It was kind of like the wonder drug. So a lot of doctors start to prescribe it. In the first half of 2013 70,000 people in the United States were treated, and it had a 95% rate of cure, in other words the virus was erradicated... but this drug costs $1000 dollars a pill, for one pill that I take one a day..." Now imagine how much a cure for aging would cost. [1] - http://www.radiolab.org/story/what-year-life-worth/ http://www.radiolab.org/story/what-year-life-worth/
- joe_the_user 9y ago
  Sure, priced like a contemporary drug, the price of a life extender would infinite. But then again, priced like a contemporary drug, the price of air or water would be infinite too. Fortunately, we have much of this around, so far, for nearly nothing (air more than water, so far again). What about the Hep C drug makes it expensive? The research? The production process? The patents racket? If you knew the recipe could you make it in your basement with some ingredient of modest cost? Of expensive cost?

65827 9y ago

We're google, we love you! As long as you're not a gunowner. Or whatever other group we decide to label as undesirables in the future.

carapace 9y ago
No elixir for you 65827!