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Dude, even setting aside the question of whether eliminating aging is a good idea (for the economy, for the species, etc), what makes you think nobody’s working
by apothegm 2mo ago
Dude, even setting aside the question of whether eliminating aging is a good idea (for the economy, for the species, etc), what makes you think nobody’s working on it?
And lol, easily solvable? Scientists have been trying to figure it out for well over a century (and non-scientists probably since the origin of the man race). They’ve made marginal progress so far.
Go do a web search or two.
- goldlimetea 2mo ago[dead]
- JPLeRouzic 2mo ago[dead]
- apothegm 2mo agoI’m not following it closely, because I don’t believe that within my lifetime we’ll achieve anything that’s effective and safe; or if we do, it’ll be too late for me and more than I could possibly afford anyway. But knowing there’s plenty of research going on (mostly in mice and in cell cultures) takes little more than reading the headlines in the HN “New” feed for a few weeks.
- rubyfruit 2mo agoI want to hold out hope that conscious is uploadable. But I got myself to a point intellectually where I think that’s impossible. But given The Hard Problem and what not, it would be great if one day someone just figured it out. Like oh guys it was just ____ all along, and now they sell Death Insurance for the embodied (rich folk) or if you’re poor you’re just a mind in the cloud with something like a Heroku bill pooled in with other souls. Like there’s a budget tier of the afterlife fml (fmd)