The Maker of Gore-Tex Is Experimenting With an Artificial Cornea

Post by guelo » Fri, May 10, 2019, 11:49 PM UTC

varelse wrote: post #8

As someone with Fuchs Dystrophy (which is slowly blinding me), and writing style aside, I'd like to see the aging billionaires of Web 2.0 throw money at more ideas like this instead of at Hail Mary passes to immortality. Is that so much to ask for? I think it's realistic to live to 100 with 90+ good years. Without fundamental breakthroughs in science, it seems like a hard trek to get beyond that. https://www.allabout…

Post by sverige » Sat, May 11, 2019, 12:09 AM UTC

Post by farresito » Sat, May 11, 2019, 1:20 AM UTC

paulcole wrote: post #14

varelse wrote: post #8

As someone with Fuchs Dystrophy (which is slowly blinding me), and writing style aside, I'd like to see the aging billionaires of Web 2.0 throw money at more ideas like this instead of at Hail Mary passes to immortality. Is that so much to ask for? I think it's realistic to live to 100 with 90+ good years. Without fundamental breakthroughs in science, it seems like a hard trek to get beyond that. https://www.allabout…

I mean, yeah as someone with Type 1 diabetes, I’d rather rich people throw money at that than corneas or immortality. But isn’t that why aging rich people dream of immortality? It’s the cure to the “disease” they have. I guess it just boils down to the simple fact that most people are pretty selfish.

Post by r00fus » Sat, May 11, 2019, 1:38 AM UTC

melling wrote: post #16

guelo wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Instead of relying on billionaire's whims I'd rather we taxed them more and used CDC's and NIH's epidemiology and scientist's opinions to fund research that benefits society the most.

You want to tax all 536 billionaires? Capital gains perhaps? I’m not exactly sure why everyone middle class and above wouldn’t want to pay a little more for more medical research. We’ll all likely benefit. The ”let’s just tax the rich” is only going to get us so far.

Post by paulcole » Sat, May 11, 2019, 1:50 AM UTC

farresito wrote: post #15

paulcole wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, yeah as someone with Type 1 diabetes, I’d rather rich people throw money at that than corneas or immortality. But isn’t that why aging rich people dream of immortality? It’s the cure to the “disease” they have. I guess it just boils down to the simple fact that most people are pretty selfish.

To be fair, if you cure aging, you drastically reduce (or make non-existent) the incidence rate of most diseases, since they tend to appear as you get older. I think curing aging is the ultimately smart thing to do.