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There is a real possibility that in the next few decades some of these therapies might work. The book Lifespan by Dr David Sinclair is really interesting. Sinc
by sien 7y ago
There is a real possibility that in the next few decades some of these therapies might work.
The book Lifespan by Dr David Sinclair is really interesting. Sinclair is a professor at Harvard. He's highly optimistic that something will come of the various ideas looking at slowing aging.
https://www.amazon.com/Lifespan-Why-Age_and-Dont-Have/dp/1501191977 https://www.amazon.com/Lifespan-Why-Age_and-Dont-Have/dp/150...
- mambojumbo 7y agoOne can only hope that it wont be yet another hyper inflated bubble like ai is now.
- ganeshkrishnan 7y agoAi is hardly hyper inflated. Everything from your phone to cars to planes use ai and machine learning one way or the other.
- lcnmrn 7y agoBut it's not actually AI, it's just programmable probability.
- wrinkl3 7y agoWhich is what modern AI is - neat linear algebra that can perform certain tasks that are commonly associated with human cognition.
- thelittleone 7y agoHow and when did this become the definition of AI? I feel like we techies lost an important distinction by simply accepting the marketing appropriation of the term. What do we now call real AI?
- shpeedy 7y agoIt was that way from very beginning. It's Artificial _Intelligence_ , not an Artificial Human.
- bufferoverflow 7y agoSo is your brain. But it's not even yet programmable.
- cscurmudgeon 7y agoThe brain is not programmable?
- sudosysgen 7y agoIt really depends on your definition of programmable, I can see how it could be argued both ways.
- Ace17 7y agoIt's only programmable in the Matrix movie. Today's real world requires you to practice before saying "I know kung fu".
- apta 7y agoThis is a simplistic, incorrect view of biology.
- GolDDranks 7y agoWell, we happen to call that AI nowadays.
- Rallerbabs 7y agoThere's a real possibility that some of those therapies might work in the next 6.5 years, as per Greg Bailey @ Juvenescence. https://www.forbes.com/sites/robinseatonjefferson/2019/08/26/how-extraordinary-breakthroughs-in-anti-aging-research-will-happen-faster-than-people-think/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/robinseatonjefferson/2019/08/26...
- peanutz454 7y agoSo when it happens, will we stop having kids? Because our current population and lifestyle do not seem sustainable. I only see population increasing and lifestyle being more burdensome on environment.
- zhoujianfu 7y agoI already did!
- tomerico 7y agoIronically, if people that care about the planet don’t have kids to save the planet, you will be left with more people that don’t care about the planet down the road
- newnewpdro 7y agoI don't know about you, but some of my teachers and favorite musicians had far more of an impact on my attitudes toward the environment and having children than my parents ever did. This fallacy that the only way to fix the world is to make kids of your own that will make it better is ridiculous.
- anthonypasq 7y agopopulation will plateau
- danielschlaug 7y agoJust let immortal people have no more than one kid. That way the population (of immortals) can double at most.
- ChrisLomont 7y agoThen non-immortals can have as many immortal kids as they want, so immortals can still increase without bound.
- nbates80 7y agoI don't have interest in having kids. But I guess that if I was facing immortality or the prospect of reaching twice my age I would be even less interested on having kids. I imagine people with access to anti aging therapies would postpone having children further and further.
- sbmthakur 7y agoHe did an AMA on Reddit a few days ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/eorio3/hi_im_david_sinclair_professor_of_genetics_at/ https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/eorio3/hi_im_david_si...