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It may be not as bad as it sounds if we see the advances in age reversal happening. The next 50 years will be nothing like the last 50 years, and the last 50 ye
by xiphias2 4y ago
It may be not as bad as it sounds if we see the advances in age reversal happening. The next 50 years will be nothing like the last 50 years, and the last 50 years were full of changes.
- jyscao 4y agoThat's a big if. IMO anti-aging could be similar to self-driving, i.e. harder than it seems.
- rtkwe 4y agoWorse, it's biology so we have to actually work with the messy wet lab system that makes up our bodies instead of a human built system we can at least nominally control and design. At least traffic has a design and intent so we're not fully wedded to whatever worked for a bacterial half a billion years ago with big dreams and a fancy new mutation.
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- pjc50 4y agoI'm terrified of the consequences of anti-aging in societies that are already gerontocracies. Do you really want 150-year-old Supreme Court judges? Besides which, anti-aging really will kill any political desire to increase birth rates.
- xiphias2 4y agoIf it would mean saving my mom and getting her healthy again, or me getting healthy again (even though I'm not that old), then yes, I can deal with 150 year old supreme court judges. Dictators with nukes are much more scary to me