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> The low-hanging fruits of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes are calling to public health far more urgently than this pie in the sky limitless life. Vastly
by garmaine 8y ago
> The low-hanging fruits of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes are calling to public health far more urgently than this pie in the sky limitless life.
Vastly more people die each year of age-related causes than obesity, heart disease, and diabetes combined. It's an unrecognized holocaust inevitably terminating the potential of all humans on this planet, and it is going entirely unrecognized because if you work on solving aging you are a crackpot, whereas "obviously" obesity, heart disease, and diabetes are more deserving of our time and grant money.
- sgt101 8y agoWhat is your view of the lives of elderly people? I would trade health, mobility and my intellectual capabilities intact to 90 for 20 years of problems (70->90) followed by another 20 years of geriatric life (90->110). I would agree with you if the common experience of old age was positive and healthy; but it seems to me that the priority for research should be to alleviate the problems and suffering we will all face should we be lucky enough to get there, especially now that the majority of people are lucky. Perhaps healthier older people will live a lot longer as well?
- garmaine 8y ago> I would agree with you if the common experience of old age was positive and healthy It’s not positive and healthy because you age. You fix aging and people will have a physical age of 25 forever and do all sorts of fun things with perfectly capable bodies. That’s the point. I don’t know what sort of counter factual world you are describing where we have “alleviated aging” but people still age...
- Koshkin 8y ago> age of 25 My daughter would say "ew"