Can someone explain why this is interesting? It looks like a directionally interesting anti-aging study, but without any major breakthroughs. I'm curious what folks upvoting see in the study that I'm missing.
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Should we also get rid of some of the young people if they are grumpy? Are you sure 80 years is enough, maybe it's 30?
This. Young people are way too grumpy these days, more than the old farts i know, who tend to enjoy their lives overall and are nice to others.
Gee I wonder why.
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#33Sure, "the" elderly. Everyone who is suffering from aging will be helped. No special treatment for powerful people, it'll be all about "the elderly".
Why throw out the baby with the bath water, just because the rich will live longer, no one should. This is the feeling I get everytime I see a comment that it will be only for the rich and powerful.
I don't think that will be the case, as there will be a gold rush once the possibility is proven and visible, everyone will try to get it, even the naysayers.
It will be more like the crash of prices from the Spanish mines in south America.
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Think about easing painful symptoms of aging. This would reduce the dependence of healthcare.
Public inavailability of medical care is rather a US problem.
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#35Sure, "the" elderly. Everyone who is suffering from aging will be helped. No special treatment for powerful people, it'll be all about "the elderly".
It's about a bazillion times easier to point out disparity than to make this work at all. If it does work, it will start out expensive, and get cheaper. Like everything.
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#36Sure, "the" elderly. Everyone who is suffering from aging will be helped. No special treatment for powerful people, it'll be all about "the elderly".
Why throw out the baby with the bath water, just because the rich will live longer, no one should. This is the feeling I get everytime I see a comment that it will be only for the rich and powerful. I don't think that will be the case, as there will be a gold rush once the possibility is proven and visible, everyone will try to get it, even the naysayers. It will be more like the crash of prices from the Spanish mine…
Think of all the mundane technology we use every single day that was, when it was first introduced, priced for the rich and powerful.
And then imagine if we'd used that as a reason not to produce it.
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People don't like hearing it, but if you can't make peace with your mortality in 80 years, you won't manage it in 800 either. And you (whoever is reading is) isn't actually that special that you should go on forever, instead of new life coming into the world. It would be a bigger loss for you to stay, than for you to pass on, because of the implied opportunity costs of other people being born. We all think we're hot…
Sounds like an angry projection of your own value of your life. Its as if you're supposed to accept your death by 80, otherwise you'll... die and not accept it?
Very few people that die 'made peace with their morality'. Why is it a prerequisite? How do you assign value to another person's life simply based on if they made you cringe or not? That's cringe.
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#38Sure, "the" elderly. Everyone who is suffering from aging will be helped. No special treatment for powerful people, it'll be all about "the elderly".
It's very handy that we can collapse whole threads whenever a longevity topic comes up
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> We don't need more old grumpy people hoarding wealth and overloading healthcare.
Agreed but why is longevity research the problem here? Our laws around money , taxation and property were fashioned when average human life was around 40. We haven't adapted since
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Should we also get rid of some of the young people if they are grumpy? Are you sure 80 years is enough, maybe it's 30?
no but , just as we are removing teenagers from the voting population, we should also be removing an equal number of voters from the other side of the age spectrum