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How about... you know, not dying? At least in the foreseeable future. You can do a lot more awesome engineering and science and exploration if you don't die af
by mej10 14y ago
How about... you know, not dying? At least in the foreseeable future.
You can do a lot more awesome engineering and science and exploration if you don't die after ~80 years.
- dredmorbius 14y agoMy first thought: how about reproducing on Mars? Now to find a suitable Mr. & Mrs. Smith, if you grok me.
- kmfrk 14y agoif you grok me. How appropriately Heinlein. :)
- randallsquared 14y agoYou didn't quote enough.
- kmfrk 14y agoYou're right. I need to read that book this weekend.
- evoxed 14y agoMr. and soon-to-be-Mrs. Smith here. Where do we check our bags?
- ktizo 14y agoI think it is hard to foresee removing from the foreseeable future one of the few bits of the future that is foreseeable.
- MikeCapone 14y agoNot that hard to imagine and plan for: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/39 http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/39 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8554766938711591377&hl=en http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8554766938711591377&... http://www.amazon.com/dp/0312367066 http://www.amazon.com/dp/0312367066 http://citywire.kuluvalley.com/view/E586AD51-418F-C8CE-442B-828A9164D788?vtguid=70B21F9A-4BCA-C090-62F2-F77C0B007FE2 http://citywire.kuluvalley.com/view/E586AD51-418F-C8CE-442B-... http://michaelgr.com/2011/10/24/aubrey-de-grey-on-the-diseases-of-aging-video/ http://michaelgr.com/2011/10/24/aubrey-de-grey-on-the-diseas...
- ktizo 14y agoI didn't mean the getting old bit. Is just moving the foreseeable goalposts.
- reasonattlm 14y agoThe estimated price tag for a good shot at implementing SENS and demonstrating robust reversal of aging in mice is $1B: $10M/year for ten years in each of seven research programs, plus some padding. http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2004/11/strategies-for-engineered-negligible-senescence.php http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2004/11/strategies-for-en... http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2012/04/aubrey-de-grey-on-the-costs-and-cost-effectiveness-of-sens.php http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2012/04/aubrey-de-grey-on... http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2004/10/the-cost-of-sens.php http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2004/10/the-cost-of-sens....
- MikeCapone 14y agoI'm not a billionaire (yet), but that's why 100% of my charitable donations go to the SENS foundation. Every marginal dollar has a much higher expected utility there than anywhere else that I've found.
- xenophanes 14y agoI am a huge fan of SENS too. Here is another place with high value per dollar: http://industrialprogress.net http://industrialprogress.net Industrial Progress is a very important and practical cause, and this group has a very effective leader who is actually having some effect at persuading people (particularly people in industry) and providing them with better ideas. And it's cheap. SENS needs a billion. A few hundred thousand would be huge here.
- simbyotic 14y agoI second this recommendation, CIP has been doing an amazing job at showing how and why industrial progress is amazingly beneficial to human prosperity, while dispelling the common critiques the "green" movement uses to dispel this idea. Both SENS and CIP are hugely important ventures that people should look into in my book.
- usaar333 14y agoGiven that cancer research gets $5B/year in the US government funding alone and we still have cancer, I am skeptical of that price tag claim. also see: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1371037/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1371037/
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