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Until we can cure old age, I don't want to cure death. Prolonged old age can sometimes be a curse.

chrischen 17y ago
Curing old age is not scalable. It's also not cost efficient. It'll get harder and harder to improve the longevity of the body. However, growing new bodies is a much more scalable solution. You can keep growing new bodies and then transfer your memories and what not into the new body. That can scale your life to infinity. Then you can stock up on cheap commodity bodies instead of trying to make one body faster, more powerful, and younger looking (which will cost more and more for less increments in lifespan).
- gloob 17y ago
  Putting aside any ethical qualms that people might have regarding growing humans for the purpose of extending one's own life, a rather more immediate issue springs to mind (although I will concede I may just be putting my ignorance of the subject on public display). Specifically, regarding the idea of and then transfer your memories and what not into the new body. Is any actual research into this being done? And, although I might be showing my Singularity-skeptical colours by asking this, has any actual research into this produced useful results?
  - chrischen 17y ago
    http://freednerd.wordpress.com/2006/06/04/mind-or-memory-transfer-is-it-a-possibility/ http://freednerd.wordpress.com/2006/06/04/mind-or-memory-tra... At the very least we could try brain/head transplants. So clone your body and then transplant your old head to the new body. You'll have a nasty looking neck scar but you can just wear a turtle neck. Of course the ideal approach would be to just transplant the memory and physical state of the brain.
  - wlievens 17y ago
    So true. What I find confusing about Singularity-type dreamers is not that they dream, but that they're so arrogant about trivializing everything. "All you have to do is transfer your memory". Right. If the concept of Singularity allows you to call any imaginable technology trivial, I call BS.
    - chrischen 17y ago
      Oh lighten up I wasn't totally serious.
      - wlievens 17y ago
        Maybe you weren't, but most of these people are. It weirds me out.
radu_floricica 17y ago
Well, it's aging that kills us. Whatever drug they finally find will most likely work by stopping and/or reversing aging.

Curing old age is not scalable. It's also not cost efficient. It'll get harder and harder to improve the longevity of the body. However, growing new bodies is a much more scalable solution. You can keep growing new bodies and then transfer your memories and what not into the new body. That can scale your life to infinity. Then you can stock up on cheap commodity bodies instead of trying to make one body faster, more powerful, and younger looking (which will cost more and more for less increments in lifespan).

gloob 17y ago
Putting aside any ethical qualms that people might have regarding growing humans for the purpose of extending one's own life, a rather more immediate issue springs to mind (although I will concede I may just be putting my ignorance of the subject on public display). Specifically, regarding the idea of and then transfer your memories and what not into the new body. Is any actual research into this being done? And, although I might be showing my Singularity-skeptical colours by asking this, has any actual research into this produced useful results?
- chrischen 17y ago
  http://freednerd.wordpress.com/2006/06/04/mind-or-memory-transfer-is-it-a-possibility/ http://freednerd.wordpress.com/2006/06/04/mind-or-memory-tra... At the very least we could try brain/head transplants. So clone your body and then transplant your old head to the new body. You'll have a nasty looking neck scar but you can just wear a turtle neck. Of course the ideal approach would be to just transplant the memory and physical state of the brain.
- wlievens 17y ago
  So true. What I find confusing about Singularity-type dreamers is not that they dream, but that they're so arrogant about trivializing everything. "All you have to do is transfer your memory". Right. If the concept of Singularity allows you to call any imaginable technology trivial, I call BS.
  - chrischen 17y ago
    Oh lighten up I wasn't totally serious.
    - wlievens 17y ago
      Maybe you weren't, but most of these people are. It weirds me out.

radu_floricica 17y ago

Well, it's aging that kills us. Whatever drug they finally find will most likely work by stopping and/or reversing aging.