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by gravitycop 18y ago
So, you would feel sensible in caring about (having altruistic feelings for) someone who could remember being you. Yes? Would you feel sensible in caring about the future-you if (the present) you knew that he was going to have amnesia? Me:
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by gravitycop 18y ago
Other individuals do not [share a common history with the "you" of a second ago]. All siblings share zero genetic and cultural history?
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by gravitycop 18y ago
The point is that -- given that you will in objective fact not exist tomorrow -- if you can find a reason to care about the impostor who tomorrow will take your place in society and pretend to be you, you should be able to apply the same re
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by gravitycop 18y ago
yes, evolution includes drift Who are you agreeing with? Drift was neither mentioned nor intended to be implied. Evolution is not (and does not include): * Natural selection. * Artificial selection. * Selective pressure. * Drift
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by gravitycop 18y ago
I imagine car accidents alone would restrict most people to a few hundred years. http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx Fatalities per 100 Million Vehicle Miles Traveled: 1.37 At that rate, if one drove 10,000 miles per
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by gravitycop 18y ago
I apologize. This is a better link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 14 points by pg 354 days ago | link | parent | flag I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement. Obviously the uparrows aren't only for
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by gravitycop 18y ago
Noted in a submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=467427
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by gravitycop 18y ago
> The age of something is simply the measurement of elapsed time since something came into its present configuration. A 'war on aging' makes as much sense as You are committing the fallacy of equivocation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by gravitycop 18y ago
>> The age of something is simply the measurement of elapsed time >now you're changing the terms. Ambiguous use of terminology (e.g. age defined one way vs. age defined another way) is equivocation . http://en.wikipedia.or
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by gravitycop 18y ago
Evolution [...] selects those who are best adapted to their environment Are you sure it is not, instead, selective-pressure that does that? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=437043
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by gravitycop 18y ago
I [...] disagree. [...] it is uncertainty, pain and infirmity I am afraid of, not death. [...] We don't need a war on aging, we need a war on suffering. You don't think it is possible to be aged (senesced), but not dead? http://news.ycom
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by gravitycop 18y ago
Truly impressive. The comparison shots show a huge difference in clarity. This looks like a great app. It requires a jailbroken iPhone, by the way. Company site: http://www.occipital.com/ClearCam
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by gravitycop 18y ago
As a reminder, downvoting should not occur to express disagreement with a commenter. Source? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392347 3 points by pg 57 days ago | link Downvoting has always been used to express disagreement. http:/
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by gravitycop 18y ago
There are drugs in development that reverse [glycation]. [...] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alagebrium Alagebrium only reverses a minor type of glycation. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16706655 Known crosslink breakers (e.g., al
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by gravitycop 18y ago
why have a meta-care about the race if you will not be around to witness it? It's like planning your own funeral--you'll never know how it turned out. Does anyone ever stick around to experience how anything turns out, anyway? http://en.
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by gravitycop 18y ago
Most of the space humans take up is accounted-for by farming. Farming need not take up as much space as it currently does: http://www.juliansimon.com/writings/Ultimate_Resource/TCHAR0... PhytoFarm techniques could feed a hundred times th
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by gravitycop 18y ago
- An open API for all train and bus timetables and up to date changes. Imagine being in an unfamiliar city, opening Google maps. It finds your location, you click where you want to go, it finds a bus/underground route for you, next few bus
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by gravitycop 18y ago
Notice the word 'many' above. There aren't very many basic processes of aging: * Glycation * Mitochondrial decay * Oxidative stress * Pathological inflammation * Organ decline Perhaps I am forgetting one. Were you thinking
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by gravitycop 18y ago
feeding cows costs the world well over 1 billion humans worth of food. RBST can reduce that impact. http://www.google.com/search?q=rbst+efficiency rbST reduces carbon footprint of dairies The present study demonstrates that use of rbST
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by gravitycop 18y ago
Topsoil does not actually get destroyed. Rivers just deposit it as silt which can be recovered. Interesting. Silt also piles up behind dams. http://www.google.com/search?q=irn+dams+silting Perhaps dam silt could be even-more easily reco
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by gravitycop 18y ago
I find it dubious that proponents of 'longer, better life' don't focus on the low hanging fruit You don't consider pennies-per-day of glycation-blocking benfotiamine supplementation to be low-hanging fruit?
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by gravitycop 18y ago
Why wait? Your glycation-blocking benfotiamine is just a few mouseclicks away: http://www.easycart.net/BeyondACenturyInc./B_Vitamins.html#1... BENFOTIAMINE (S-benzoylthiamine-o-monophosphate) is a lipid form of thiamine, Vit B1. A natura
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by gravitycop 18y ago
Why and how is aging a "horrible problem"? http://www.google.com/search?q=%22cost+of+aging%22 http://news.google.com/news?q=cost+aging People do not retire (become unproductive members of society) because they simply want to. People r
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by gravitycop 18y ago
Many of the ailments of aging could be 'cured' in this way. How does one cure glycation and mitochondrial decay? http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2008/apr2008_Protecting-Again...
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by gravitycop 18y ago
Squaring an aging curve is not the same thing as extending maximum lifespan. Simply because, after substantial squaring of the aging curve, the average 100-year-old might be as healthy as -- and physically indistinguishable-from -- the aver
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by gravitycop 18y ago
named after another country, no less Actually, both the language and kingdom were named after the Germanic tribe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language#History The names 'England' (or 'Aenglaland') and English are derived from
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by gravitycop 18y ago
attacking the cause of aging itself is abhorrently idiotic. Because it is good for society that 30-year-olds, because of aging-related processes, tend to have lower IQ's (and worse joints, poorer eyesight, poorer hearing, etc.) than 20-ye
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by gravitycop 18y ago
how about creating an income-tax-free zone for businesses with under 50 employees for five years? Why have income taxes at all? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=450327
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by gravitycop 18y ago
Twitter might have been the original source for this news (from the link at your link): From Twitter, we gather that Bill was talking about malaria prevention, one of the causes his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is pushing. "No reaso
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by gravitycop 18y ago
it can be massively frustrating as a female in this industry. [...] I was not hired. The recruiter told me it was because I don't have a car. It is normal for employers to expect employees to have cars. http://www.helium.com/items/503172

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