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"Then of course there are all the "Singularity" ideas: prevention of aging, Friendly AGI, consciousness uploading, and so forth, but most of these aren't going
by MikeCapone 17y ago
"Then of course there are all the "Singularity" ideas: prevention of aging, Friendly AGI, consciousness uploading, and so forth, but most of these aren't going to be accelerated much just by throwing more money at them."
Actually, the implementation of the SENS plan would benefit from having more money. Aubrey de Grey has said a few times recently that they basically have more leads to follow than money to do it. www.sens.org
Aging kills between 100-200k people PER DAY (not to mention all the suffering of people around and loss of knowledge and expertise).
- dfranke 17y agoI added the qualifier of "most" because I wasn't sure about that one. I'm not a biologist so I have to rely fully on the opinions of others to tell me what avenues of aging research are likely to pay off and how soon. But anyway, I'm pretty confident that the biggest problem all these fields face are their public image. Fix that and the money will follow.
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- amalcon 17y agoTo be fair, the guy works on aging research. Someone who works on aging research isn't likely to say "Aging research doesn't really need any more money."
- MikeCapone 17y agoIndeed, but it does check out. Every time they've got new funding they've branched out in new directions, and they're pretty transparent in what they fund so that everybody can see that they're not just duplicating work done elsewhere or wasting the money.