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I'll be happy if two things happen: 1. I can have "better years" in the same lifespan. Lots of energy at 90 for instance. 2. I can increase the lifespan of my dog by 50 years :)
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I'm just not interesting in brainwashing myself to be suicidal
Spiritually suicidal maybe, but not physical suicide
You can do this at home, except for the little inconvenience that growth hormone is a scheduled drug. I wonder what the results would be with just growth hormone. Let's ask Sylvester Stallone[1] who looks great for 75 and got caught trying to get into Australia with illicit Growth Hormone a while ago[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_Stallone [2] https://abcnews.go.com/Health/ActiveAging/story?id=317601…
It has to be refrigerated, which makes travel difficult. Not to mention the hypodermics needed for intramuscular injections.
You can do this at home, except for the little inconvenience that growth hormone is a scheduled drug. I wonder what the results would be with just growth hormone. Let's ask Sylvester Stallone[1] who looks great for 75 and got caught trying to get into Australia with illicit Growth Hormone a while ago[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_Stallone [2] https://abcnews.go.com/Health/ActiveAging/story?id=317601…
GH by itself decreases insulin sensitivity, aggravates insulin resistance, and may significantly increase cancer risk.
Even people with diabetes live longer on metformin than a control group that is not on metformin. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25041462/
Am I the only one who thinks immortality is a nightmare? I don't understand people who want to live forever.
Altered Carbon, and to a lesser extend Upload! touch on this dystopian part - the great leveller is that every billionaire will one day die - imagine if that wasn't the case, and they could keep hoarding wealth and having undue political influence.
Am I the only one who thinks immortality is a nightmare? I don't understand people who want to live forever.
As far as I can tell, "I don't want to live forever anyway" is just cope.
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Sounds like a self solving problem. I reckon people will start caring about their despots if they expect to live a millennium under the despots' boot
I suspect people not caring is not the main underlying cause of despots.
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Super intelligent, immortal, and free of cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer, and MS.
And with a single giant ear on their back. Don’t forget the giant ear. (Weirdly, just saw a breathless article talking about how 3D bioprinting obviates the use of rib cartilage that the human-ear-on-a-mouse 25 years ago was also supposed to end).