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Living to 120 is becoming an imaginable prospect
- mariuolo 3y agoWon't that mean retiring at 90? Otherwise pension funds will become unsustainable.
- giuliomagnifico 3y agoYes, retiring age will be delayed, like the politicians are already doing.
- Try1275 3y agoOne could argue that if we are smart enough to make this work, we could be smart enough to have the machines take over as well but I am not holding my breath :)
- babyeater9000 3y agoFully automated luxury communism in a post scarcity world in our natural lifetime is technologically feasible! Imagine!
- adversaryIdiot 3y agothey would never let that happen
- paulddraper 3y agoI thought AI taking our jobs was a bad thing?
- pydry 3y agoWestern oligarchs aren't investing billions in AI just to let us retire early. They're trying to create a bigger reserve army of labor.
- xattt 3y agoPerhaps the physical rigours of work will dictate a retirement age, similar to firefighters retiring at 55.
- JPLeRouzic 3y agoToday we retire for 20 years and last 5 years are pretty horrible for most people. Adding 10 years to retirement and 30 years to life span means maybe 15 years living with severe physical and mental degradation. So even if we retire at 90, pension funds will become unsustainable.
- thghtihadanacct 3y agoMy gosh ... 67 to 90 ... 23 years. Thats an entire career from the 1950's.
- ttymck 3y agoNo thanks.
- Tadpole9181 3y agoI mean, it wouldn't be bad if they solved cognitive decline, cancer, and biological aging (collagen, muscle, bone density loss, etc). I wouldn't want to be 120, looking at folks who are 90. But being youthful till 120 or even until I choose it's time? That would be quite lovely.
- lm28469 3y agoMost people could easily live in shape until their natural limit and here we are with half the population obese and not able to run 100 meters in their 30s and some people who have never been physically able to do a single pull up in their entire existence Doing simple actions right now could easily extend your health span by 20 years, it doesn't get closer to a magic pill What's the point of living to even 70 if by your 40s you're already a fat useless excuse of a human being. We have an incredible hardware run with absolute shit tier software that's the problem
- amanaplanacanal 3y ago"fat useless excuse of a human being" seems a bit harsh.
- anomaly_ 3y agoHere’s the erudite Socrates version: "It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit."
- lm28469 3y agoI thought about rewriting that part for a while and couldn't come up with a better version. I'm not even saying it with anger, more with sadness to be honest. I wish people could see how capable their body is and how relatively easy it is to upgrade oneself. I've seen friends and family members let themselves rot and wonder why they always feel like shit, it's just plain sad, so much long term happiness wasted for short time joys. It's never too late to turn around either, my gf's dad is in his 60s and lost 20kg in a few months because we motivated him. He had trouble walking because of painful knees for years and what a miracle!!! he's cured now, all it took is eating a bit less.
- grungydan 3y agoThis being just a few lines down from a story on housing being unaffordable for the vast majority of Americans in 99% of the country is...well.
- tim333 3y agoThey are different issues really. Housing is due to prior low interest rates and a restricted supply, not people living a bit long.
- Paul-Craft 3y agoImagine how constricted the supply would be if people lived 50% longer and stayed in their homes for 40 years more than they do today.
- Wowfunhappy 3y agoNow imagine what would happen if we built 50% more houses.
- Paul-Craft 3y agoI'm not on enough drugs right now to be able to imagine that happening.
- thghtihadanacct 3y ago... or paid to relocate individuals to places with houses. People dont like to talk about all the empty houses in less than desirable places. Rather, state governments and large businesses talk about needing to build housing everywhere cuz money.
- SkyPuncher 3y agoWhere are those houses? Where are the jobs that go with those houses?
- gumby 3y ago> The fact of many people living much longer would have wide ramifications. Larry Niven pointed out that societies with longer lifespans would become more risk averse as you have more to lose. Conversely he also predicted greater rates of addiction.
- johnwheeler 3y agoUnless you die early of cancer which seems just if not more likely. I wish they would solve cancer
- technocratius 3y agohttps://archive.ph/JWaHl https://archive.ph/JWaHl
- swader999 3y agoCan we get those bionic knees first please?
- DaveFlater 3y agoI see 80 year old men on TV and in positions of privilege, but they don't exist in my fam. Now you say 120? Yeah, maybe for someone with an easy life.
- pcurve 3y agoWow... this part of the video blew my mind... comparing human to tortoise. https://youtu.be/FYr04ymjD1w?si=dd45tE7vKW6ZcIOw&t=224 https://youtu.be/FYr04ymjD1w?si=dd45tE7vKW6ZcIOw&t=224 The risk of death for human exponentially increase as you age, but it is constant for tortoise.
- epichints 3y ago[dead]