Someone has to take the Edgnenet project and move it forward!
What is that?
A Protocol for Dying
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#82A book about psychopaths from a software developer with no qualifications to speak with any authority on psychopathology whatsoever - that doesn't sound highly insightful.
Haha! You sound like a psychopath. Got any good code?
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#83Someone has to take the Edgnenet project and move it forward!
What is that?
Something that looks abandoned, but is the most interesting idea ever:
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#84This whole thread reeks of death acceptance culture. HN readers show off how cool they are for accepting death instead of discussing how we as a tech community could help cure these diseases or at least give more people an option of being cryopreserved.
The really unpleasant truth is that if we as a society began doing serious focused R&D on these life-threatening diseases earlier, the OP and many others wouldn't have to die.
But we didn't. Enjoy marketing your mobile apps until cancer suddenly makes you rot away.
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#85i like to hope that i will never die because by the time i age humanity would have evolved to the point of curing all forms of cancer and extending life past 100 years of age.
This is an extremely odd thing to comment. You may be right, but your comment just feels inappropriate in the context of this thread.
IMO extremely wrong comments are the ones accepting the death and even celebrating how "strong" a person dying against his will is.
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#86These words hit close to home. My dad just passed away from cancer/diabetes in Florida and had to endure the "barbaric torture of decay and failure". Basically 4 months suffering in bed until he eventually denied eating anything and his liver failed. I asked the nurses repeatedly if there was anything to help him go or pass and there was nothing. Something's got to change in the US, we treat animals better than humans at the end of life
Thank you for your words
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#87This whole thread reeks of death acceptance culture. HN readers show off how cool they are for accepting death instead of discussing how we as a tech community could help cure these diseases or at least give more people an option of being cryopreserved. The really unpleasant truth is that if we as a society began doing serious focused R&D on these life-threatening diseases earlier, the OP and many others wouldn't hav…
Well I'm sure you'll be down-voted but in case you come back to check the replies I'll just say I'm sorry that you can't accept the world at the moment.
Unless the singularity happens really soon and someone bootstraps a benign godlike AI to take us under it's wing I think we're stuck with a very high (five 9s ?) probability of dying.
It's fine to rail against it but sometimes you have to accept that you were born in the dark ages and life is short.
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#88i like to hope that i will never die because by the time i age humanity would have evolved to the point of curing all forms of cancer and extending life past 100 years of age.
Progress doesn't occur by itself. If we won't develop the necessary technology (or help, or incentivize development) it won't magically show up by the time it is needed for you or for me. For OP and many others it didn't.
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#89This whole thread reeks of death acceptance culture. HN readers show off how cool they are for accepting death instead of discussing how we as a tech community could help cure these diseases or at least give more people an option of being cryopreserved. The really unpleasant truth is that if we as a society began doing serious focused R&D on these life-threatening diseases earlier, the OP and many others wouldn't hav…
I could not agree more.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
It might be consoling to some, but it is hardly accurate.
In what way is it inaccurate? It seems a fairly decent summary of the Carbon cycle.
The inaccuracy is that in reality, the box of Legos is huge and nowhere near running out of bricks. If suddenly all humans on Earth stopped dying, the carbon cycle wouldn't even notice it for centuries or more (the things we'd be doing to control overpopulation are another topic though).