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The best time to be alive is when longevity break throughs first appear. You have the advantages of experiencing the old ways of living and get to live unexpect
by xwdv 6y ago
The best time to be alive is when longevity break throughs first appear. You have the advantages of experiencing the old ways of living and get to live unexpectedly longer and see the world adapt to the new normal. Fortunately that is what we are positioned for.
- nynx 6y agoYou're getting some downvotes, but I actually agree with this. The next ten or twenty years are going to be the most exciting so far, and then it only goes up from there.
- Vinceo 6y agoHow long time do you think it's realistic that we reach longevity escape velocity? And what current longevity research do you think is the most promising?
- lachlan-sneff 6y agoI have no idea, I'm not a scientist, I'm just a transhumanist.
- xwdv 6y agoProbably about 20 years, just try to hold on until then.
- return1 6y agoDid people say that 20 years ago?
- funnybeam 6y agoYes we did. I was on transhumanist mailing lists twenty years ago and the exact same comments were being made then as are in this thread today
- hyko 6y agoLol. I seem to recall seeing a comic strip once, where a young, a middle-aged, and an old man were asked when anti-aging treatments would arrive. Their answers were respectively: fifty years, ten years–and this afternoon!
- xvilka 6y agoSame situation like with nuclear fusion, I guess.
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- hyko 6y agoFortunately that is what we are positioned for. I would actually suggest that anyone reading this is likely to be too old to benefit. Thinking otherwise is completely fine, but we must acknowledge that the temptation towards motivated reasoning is unusually strong in this case. I would also like the breakthroughs to be many centuries in the past, with all the biological and societal bugs worked out before I arrive :)