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There is no "longevity escape velocity", please stop reading sci-fi. (Or at least if you do, keep in mind it is only entertainment.)

• ben_w 2y ago
  "[Everything] always seems impossible until it's done" - Nelson Mandela There's no longevity escape velocity yet. But when I was a kid, there was no cloning of mammals, no Google Translate real time video mode on a device you could carry, and the best chatbots were ELIZA clones.
  • otabdeveloper4 2y ago
    That's a stupid argument because it also applies to anything from faster-than-light travel to Harry Potter's magic wand.
    • ben_w 2y ago
      By itself, sure, it's a fully general counterargument. My point is: saying "There is no ${X}, please stop reading sci-fi" is also a bad argument, because it's also a fully general counterargument. The idea is not crazy-wrong, it's a falsifiable hypothetical with not-unreasonable foundations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longevity_escape_velocity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longevity_escape_velocity