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Transhumanists have a time-frame problem. They're very concerned with the opportunities and problems of people who are not going to be them. You must earn the r

Transhumanists have a time-frame problem. They're very concerned with the opportunities and problems of people who are not going to be them. You must earn the right to be around to face those future challenges. As it stands, just like nearly all of the futurists of the past, they're dead, they don't get to see all the robots, flying cars and shiny clothes of 2017. Build the future you wish to see. Biotech, the life you save may be your own. If you like nanobots, try your hand at the white blood cell, it's pretty great at what it does. You'll get farther hacking it, than trying to build your own nanobot version. Same for trees. Pick up where nature left off. Nature's already done a pretty great job of it over the very long time it's had. Imagine the difficulty of building an artificial tree, compared to efficiently planting more.

AstralStorm 9y ago
The problem with the genetic solution of the WBCs is that they are unstable. There are plenty of cancers and diseases affecting them (including autoimmune) and the complexity is immense. Immunology is a young science still, and it is only a small part of the war on aging. WBCs are grown and raised in a stochastic, vastly imperfect process. It might be indeed easier to build an equivalent from ground up, similar to how AI algorithms do not quite copy the neuron. Some are inspired by it, but not a copy. If everyone expected results immediately we would be nowhere now. Typically "normal science" works incrementally with occasional flashes of insight and paradigm changes.