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If you're 60 now, you don't necessarily have "decades to come", so the author's sense of urgency is understandable.
by nir 16y ago
If you're 60 now, you don't necessarily have "decades to come", so the author's sense of urgency is understandable.
- reasonattlm 16y agoYou could focus on supporting the cryonics industry instead, if your judgement is that you're on the wrong side of the line no matter what. The same point stands: if you are blinkered, you will not do this. http://www.longevitymeme.org/topics/cryonics.cfm http://www.longevitymeme.org/topics/cryonics.cfm
- nir 16y agoThe author is not going to single handedly push forward the cryogenics or life extension industries. Maybe life will be significantly longer in the near future, maybe not. In the 60s we expected moon colonies around now and in the 50s top researchers considered AI almost around the corner. Science predictions are meaningless. From what I see right now my parents at their 60s aren't much different from my grandparents at the same age.
- jonhendry 16y agoCryonics is just magical thinking. You might as well read 'The Secret' and request eternal life from the Universe.