A $3B bet on finding the fountain of youth • Hacker News Board

Re: A $3B bet on finding the fountain of youth

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Post by pawsforthought » Sat, Jan 22, 2022, 3:36 PM UTC

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #149

d_burfoot wrote: post #37

I love this. People are starting to realize how powerful the logic of life extension is. Think about this: if this startup succeeds only at extending human life expectancy by a single day , it's already worth it. A life is about 3e4 days, and there are 9e9 humans, so giving 1 extra day to every human is the equivalent of saving 3e5 lives.

I have a really big problem with this mathematical reductionist view of the value of life and human time. A life is much more that the sum of its days, basically because for any individual the loss of a single day is basically indistinguishable from a loss of 0 days over a lifespan, but obviously the loss of ~300,000 people would be a catastrophe.

Indeed, days of lived experience are not fungible.

Re: A $3B bet on finding the fountain of youth

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Post by dang » Sat, Jan 22, 2022, 3:50 PM UTC

savant_penguin wrote: post #144

darkstar999 wrote: post #141

Any thoughts on how these efforts could conflict with our climate goals? Should we have an age ceiling? (that sounds awful, but so does the idea of everyone living to 150)

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Re: A $3B bet on finding the fountain of youth

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Post by foxyv » Mon, Jan 24, 2022, 6:42 PM UTC

To heck with human longevity research, I want to see dog longevity research. Losing a dog every 10-20 years is too much.

Living for 200 years seems kind of pointless. The person I was at 30 is so completely different from the person at 20 that I may as well be a completely different person. I barely even share significant memories with that person. Adding 100 years onto the tail end of my life, I may as well just die and let some new person live that life.

Then again, being able to spend the next 40-60 years with my parents would be nice.

Re: A $3B bet on finding the fountain of youth

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Post by jjtheblunt » Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 11:38 PM UTC

fairity wrote: post #121

I wish our brightest minds were all working in areas like this instead of social apps and advertising. Is there even any doubt that with a better understanding of biology we could meaningfully prolong the human lifespan? What are we doing working on apps lol.

maybe our brightest minds ARE working on areas like this, but the smart folks working in social apps and advertising provide tools that help the bright minds collaborate?