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Its a cause of death. We like to avoid those. And we know multicellular organisms exist that can maintain their telomeres and avoid senescence. We are almost c
by zanny 11y ago
Its a cause of death. We like to avoid those. And we know multicellular organisms exist that can maintain their telomeres and avoid senescence.
We are almost certainly going to be able to genetically engineer that into future people at some point, among a lot of other useful things. Dunno if we are going to manage to get gene therapy that can alter living humans so drastically before they die, though. And who knows when it will happen, just that it almost certainly will, unless we blow ourselves up.
- thaumasiotes 11y ago>> Is aging a disease? > [It's] a cause of death. This is not strictly true; aging is much like having AIDS -- it lets actual causes of death come in and kill you. Nobody ever died (directly) of AIDS, and nobody's ever died of old age either.
- meatysnapper 11y agoI would hate to be poor and immortal. That would be the worst. I feel like immortality is something for the rich.
- _random_ 11y agoBecoming rich within 1000 years is more plausible than within ~80 years. Unless the concept of being "rich" disappears due to progress.