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While I'm totally on board with the idea of making humans live longer or even forever, wishing hard won't make it so.

• eplanit 9y ago
  I'm curious, what's the plan for food supply, housing, waste/pollution, etc. in a world that accumulates non-dying human beings?
  • norswap 9y ago
    Future work :) But probably what you already expect: very strict birth control. People would still die from accidents, etc. For sure, a thorny issue, although not one can make us dismiss the idea of extending human lifes out of hand.
  • klibertp 9y ago
    Soylent! And, (a bit) more seriously, I don't think we'll get to non-dying before getting massively more energy-efficient and developing much more efficient ways of manipulating matter.
  • ben_w 9y ago
    Given the current accidental death rate would make eternal youth life expectancy around 1,000 years, and given progress with plant engineering, I’d say the only one of those that is a real problem is waste and pollution — and even then only because it’s already a problem even though we could solve it with existing tech.