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I think you have it exactly backwards. We have been increasing life span for quite a while. Uploading brains not so much
by namenotrequired 6y ago
I think you have it exactly backwards. We have been increasing life span for quite a while. Uploading brains not so much
- Retric 6y agoMaximum lifespan extension has been very stagnant. Hieronymus of Cardia, a companion of Alexander the Great who outlived his famous friend by about 80 years, dying at the age of 104 in the year 250 BC. That’s someone famous enough to be memorable, presumably he wasn’t the record holder 2270 years ago. Most medical progress has been around avoiding people dying young rather than actually extending lifespans after 90. So moving the needle when life expectancy hits 85+ becomes far more difficult.
- cblconfederate 6y agoincreasing the average, but nowhere near immortality (actually the average has dropped a bit the past decade). OTOH if we figure out how to extract the whole brain information outside the body, we know how to simulate it forever.