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Re: Age Simulation Suit

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Post by arethuza »

adastra22 wrote: post #25
amarant wrote: post #21

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This! My grandmother adopted a dog late in her life. She walked 10km a day with that dog for nearly 20 years! (That dog was the oldest dog I've ever known). At 92 she was famous in my small village, she was in better shape than some of the 30 year olds! Then the dog died. Instead of walking 10km per day, she lay on the couch staring at the ceiling. About 3 months later she started getting lost on her way to the super…

I have never been a dog person. Now I want a dog.

This YouTube video is directly responsible for me getting a dog:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocV7Hpj9keM

While the video is very impressive - my main reaction was to think how incredibly cool that type of dog is. So I eventually ended up getting my own Samoyed and it's been a hugely positive impact on my life.

NB I pretty much like all dogs now - but I love Samoyeds.

Re: Age Simulation Suit

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Post by amelius »

kulahan wrote: post #75
pfannkuchen wrote: post #72

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Why would it be used by the army? Seems like you don’t need the squishy meat filling for that use case.

There are lots of instances where a soldier being 5-6 times stronger would be really useful. I don’t think it’ll be a scenario like the starship troopers book , but having one available to a swat team or whatever, could be useful. Still, I personally think the army would be one of the last applications, because that’s where you need the absolute lowest possible latency. Latency on a suit for an elderly person would b…

Or maybe the scenario where they lift a truck that is stuck in the sand.

Re: Age Simulation Suit

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

copperx wrote: post #116
barnabyjones wrote: post #99

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My parents have similar issues due to hearing loss, it really makes any kind of social interaction a chore which results in a similar spiral. For years I've wanted to try to make, or hope someone else would make, a set of AR glasses that's purely focused on providing accurate real-time subtitles, no other gimmicks or features that might affect the wearability/usability. I think that's the biggest QOL boost most old f…

Spending R&D in something like this is much more important that building fancier hearing aids. Universal subtitles would be a life changer.

I've seen R&D demos of universal subtitling and translating, in video conferencing, but it doesn't seem to have taken off or it's hidden behind more paywalls. I did suggest that people use good microphones when giving presentations over MS Teams for the purpose of transcriptions, archiving, searchability and AI summarization, but real time translating would be the other use case.

That said, I don't believe it would work as smoothly if used in AR, as speaking and reading are two different brain things. Plus, if it's aimed at older people, they likely have sight issues too.

To a point this is already possible, just ask people to speak into your phone with e.g. Google Translate or some other text-to-speech engine. But that's awkward, because it's a context switch to a device and the processing time required.

Re: Age Simulation Suit

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Post by defrost »

amelius wrote: post #152
kulahan wrote: post #75

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There are lots of instances where a soldier being 5-6 times stronger would be really useful. I don’t think it’ll be a scenario like the starship troopers book , but having one available to a swat team or whatever, could be useful. Still, I personally think the army would be one of the last applications, because that’s where you need the absolute lowest possible latency. Latency on a suit for an elderly person would b…

Or maybe the scenario where they lift a truck that is stuck in the sand.

An exhaust air bag jack and a plank or five squaddies can already do that job.

Re: Age Simulation Suit

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Post by defyonce »

coldcode wrote: post #62

The site is slow so I can't see it. I'm 68, eat well, lost 20 pounds, work out twice a week. Everything is working fine. But I live in a place surrounded by people in walkers, wheelchairs, or using canes. Some of them have had strokes or accidents making improvement hard, but many simply chose to not do anything to avoid the aging. You don't ordinarily wind up with a walker at a single point; it often starts many yea…

I run 4 days a week (4km per day), fast for two days (72 hours total) do two gym strength workouts, one sauna session, and two Zumba classes. I also do cold showers daily. Floating once a week, facial ferment therapy once a week.

And still, I feel like hell today (and it is only Friday morning)

I used to run half a marathon every Thursday in a fasted (36 hours) state, but now I can't, I became weak and frail. Aging gets us all!

Re: Age Simulation Suit

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Post by ACCount37 »

kulahan wrote: post #144
ACCount37 wrote: post #98

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If you think that the evils of Xi Jinping outweigh the suffering of billions, you should consider killing Xi Jinping. Plenty of people tried killing Hitler, and Xi Jinping is apparently even worse? >There simply isn’t any positive to immortality, besides You mean, besides billions of people not rotting to death in their own bodies? Besides that little incredibly unimportant easy-to-overlook thing? >Can you explain wh…

Yeah, I dunno about you, but I’m not using the same kinds of stuff as billionaires. It will be the same - because of economics. If you think you’ll be just as healthy as long-lived as them, you’re crazy. It’s literally not the case anywhere else in life. Food, housing, opportunities, healthcare ALREADY, transportation, and kitchen sinks. > besides billions of people not rotting to death in their own bodies? Man, when…

That's what aging is. Aging is the process of rotting to death in your own body. There's nothing "benign" about it.

Humans learned a lot of ways to sugarcoat it. Many ways to cope. But if I told you that I want to create and unleash something that would make billions suffer, getting worse over decades, and all afflicted people would eventually die?

You'd call me a twisted monster, rightfully so.

And yet, when I propose we do the opposite, you say "no, it's natural, it's benign, rotting to death is fine actually, everyone does it".

Re: Age Simulation Suit

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Post by carlosjobim »

viking123 wrote: post #143
carlosjobim wrote: post #78

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All living beings have protective mechanism against all the degenerative effects of aging, and this has been true for over a billion years now. That protective mechanism is reproduction. Your viral infections, bacterial infections, broken bones, bad backs, polluted lungs, corrupted mind, and just general wear and tear, does not get transmitted. It's a clean start in life.

There is epigenetic age reset that happens during the conception that "resets" the cells to their young version like kind of a factory reset that cleans up the aging marks and other offsets that have happened during life so they don't get transmitted to the offspring. Learning to apply this process to the living human is quite big research topic. Obviously nature had to figure some kind of mechanism how to not transm…

It is applied to the living human (or other being), when it is born.

Applying the process to already old people would be the abomination of desolation and turn this planet into a hellish dimension of unimaginable proportions, and it would of course exterminate humanity. You have to remember that when humanity is exterminated, that means forever.

Re: Age Simulation Suit

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Post by [deleted] »

safety1st wrote: post #115
coldcode wrote: post #62

The site is slow so I can't see it. I'm 68, eat well, lost 20 pounds, work out twice a week. Everything is working fine. But I live in a place surrounded by people in walkers, wheelchairs, or using canes. Some of them have had strokes or accidents making improvement hard, but many simply chose to not do anything to avoid the aging. You don't ordinarily wind up with a walker at a single point; it often starts many yea…

I didn't realize this until a couple of years ago (in my 40s) but boy did it alter my perspective on life. And I've heard what you're saying here from a couple other people in their 60s too. When you're young you don't really think about it much, health comes for "free." But as you age your biology will force a choice upon you, one option is you spend progressively more time maintaining your health, in which case it…

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