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I think we'll get to cure aging eventually, mankind has been investing in extending life very consistently (a quick google says we spend about 10% of global GDP

by cynusx 6y ago

I think we'll get to cure aging eventually, mankind has been investing in extending life very consistently (a quick google says we spend about 10% of global GDP on healthcare). It may take a very long time to get there though, but I don't see any reason why people would stop funding progress towards this goal. Compared to that, what investment is going towards automating childcare, education and healthcare today?

ClumsyPilot 6y ago
That healthcare spend is not medical research, most of it is ruitine medical procedures like treating someone's broken rib. That's like taking all of global spend on IT, motors and robotics and claiming thats our automation research. It has no bering on making us live forever, and I am willing to bet that 'curing' aging for good is impossible unless we figure out brain uploading, which could be impossible and opens a new can of worms - is the new copy actually you? By contrast we are making a massive investment to automate more or less everything, for instance advances in robotics and machine vision clearly help to automate both healthcare and car assembly.