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Mid-old cells are a potential target for anti-aging interventions in the elderly

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Re: Mid-old cells are a potential target for anti-aging interventions in the elderly

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Post by dietr1ch »

yanis_t wrote: post #20
morbicer wrote: post #4

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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?

30 might be enough these days, it seems I won't get to own a home and I don't really want to work 2 days a week for the government and one and a half to pay for my landlord's mortgage. Many are settling with getting pets, traveling a bit and not a lot more.

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Post by ChatGTP »

johnnyworker wrote: post #26

Sure, "the" elderly. Everyone who is suffering from aging will be helped. No special treatment for powerful people, it'll be all about "the elderly".

Knowledge and information are too easy to share, if this puzzle is solved everyone is getting it.

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Post by concordDance »

morbicer wrote: post #4

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Ageing is incredibly expensive to the government atm, in healthcare costs, care costs and reduced tax revenue. The NHS would happily pay for a cure for aging if it cost £100,000 a pop!

The overloading of healthcare is because of aging.

Also, it's ridiculous that the current world is worse off than if people didn't age but there were government hitman roaming around who kill you sometime between the ages of 90 and 100...

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Post by dietr1ch »

seydor wrote: post #40
yanis_t wrote: post #20

Earlier 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?

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

It shouldn't be equal as the older ones won't face the consequences of their votes

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Post by swores »

seydor wrote: post #40
yanis_t wrote: post #20

Earlier 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?

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

Equal in quantity? So if the number of Seems quite awkward operationally even if everyone agrees with the principle behind it.

And even if you agree that it's problematic when older voters sway decisions that will affect future generations more than them, does matching the number of non-voters at each end of the spectrum solve that? And does the solution bring more benefits than the negatives of losing the experience of those old people + the negative of stripping a huge group of current voters of their voting rights?

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Post by graphe »

sasaf5 wrote: post #14
shiroiuma wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly right. This is a total waste of time, and this effort should be spent on something more productive and useful for humanity, such as improving advertising technologies and preventing people from blocking or ignoring advertisements.

As someone who develops for a large tech company and would like to join the effort to defeat aging, where should I start?

Creatively. https://singularityhub.com/2018/03/27/the-startup-that-has-t... his speciality was memory.

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Post by ben_w »

johnnyworker wrote: post #26

Sure, "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 in the interest of the rich that everyone else has it too. Even if you’re ultra cynical and model the rich as pure selfishness incarnate with zero altruism (which isn’t true), they’d still want the largest possible set of test subjects to find all the ways it can fail without the learning experience being a purely personal experience.
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