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Re: Age Simulation Suit

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Post by sans_souse »

squigz wrote: post #134
sans_souse wrote: post #122

I guess I'm the only one who thought this was literally a joke. If anyone is interested I have the orange tinted 90's ski goggles, weights for arms and legs, and I'll even throw in some mothballs and baby powder no additional charge. Do people really need something this extravagant not too mention ridiculous looking in order to just relate to other humans? In order to empathize? Is it so hard to "take someone's word"…

Because there's a big difference between having empathy for another's pain and actually understanding what it's like, even to a slight degree. For example, I'm severely visually impaired; I would not expect a deaf person to truly understand what that's like, just as I don't understand what a deaf person's life is like; that doesn't stop either of us from having empathy for the other though. If this helps people empat…

Ok, I realize that came out as quite negative/sarcastic, not meant to offend anyone. I stand by the overall comment though. You don't have to have the extent of the experience another person has had to relate/empathize.

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Post by sir0010010 »

dcminter wrote: post #146
jongjong wrote: post #131

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My grandma is 90 and seems like she hasn't aged at all since I was a child. She is still fit and independent. She eats whatever she wants. She went to the doctor for a checkup and told him that she eats cake and pastries almost every day and asked if that was alright; the doctor looked at her test results and literally told her "Mrs... You can eat as much sugar as you want." It's kind of funny that she is the longest…

This is a bit like the "my grandad smoked a pack a day and it never hurt him" anecdotes where, yes, they're remarkable because it killed all the others who tried it !

For smoking, it is also important to check what happened to people living under the same roof (or in the same multifamily complex even) due to their likely frequent inhalation of secondhand smoke.

Re: Age Simulation Suit

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Post by quesera »

tasty_freeze wrote: post #165

People are chiming in about the importance of diet and exercise to avoid (statistically) the decrepitude of old age. Another one I'll add is to use sunscreen and limiting sun exposure via hats and such. I'm in the southern US and my grandparents came from Ireland. I've never been a beech-goer, or tried to get a tan (not that it would really work anyway). When I was a kid, on the handful of times our family went to a…

Kurt Vonnegut, on the topics of youth, aging, and sunscreen:

https://people.uncw.edu/schmidt/Index_files/Vonnegut/KVspeec...

Re: Age Simulation Suit

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Post by rootusrootus »

vhcr wrote: post #104
rootusrootus wrote: post #97

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Reminds me of a guy I knew when I was growing up. At the time he was in his 80s. Walked miles every day, he was in great shape. Still died before 90, so it did not buy him notable longevity, but he was mentally sharp and physically capable up to very near the end. That sounds way better than slowly turning into a vegetable over the last 20 years of your life.

Only 19.7% of men live at least 88 years in the US, let's define notable longevity to be the top 1%, that would imply living at least 99 years. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6_2004.html

That's fair. In my family and wider circle of friends, most people live into their 90s, so I have a biased view that expects this to be pretty routine.

Re: Age Simulation Suit

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Post by bigyabai »

viking123 wrote: post #176
bigyabai wrote: post #168

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Now this is some of that top-shelf cope I've heard about.

Less than the cope in this thread though. MUH NATURE, MUH WISDOM, MUH 8000 YEAR OLD PUTIN. Have you thought about the 5000 year old Kim Jong Un yet?

Conscious senescence makes up less than 0.01% of my self-aware life.

Re: Age Simulation Suit

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Post by peepee1982 »

viking123 wrote: post #137
peepee1982 wrote: post #117

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Aging is part of a natural process we are already able to slow down significantly. Calling it a disease just muddies the semantic space of pathology in my opinion. Everybody understands already that slowing down or stopping the aging process is desirable. I don't see the usefulness in lumping it in with muscle atrophy, clogged arteries, or cancer.

I don't know, muscle atrophy, cancer etc. are all mostly caused by aging. The current paradigm is kind of whack a mole which won't take us very far. We need to understand the aging better still like what is actually going on and what are the main drivers (even here is dispute among scientists)

You're saying this as if there were no research going on about aging. We know why aging happens. That doesn't mean we can just stop or reverse the process, or that it is even possible to do so.

Re: Age Simulation Suit

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Post by tempestn »

IAmGraydon wrote: post #64
tempestn wrote: post #33

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I'm not the parent, but could've written all the same (44).

I’m 43, and though I seem to get more injuries in the gym since I hit 40 (usually tendon overuse), I’ve noticed that proper nutrition and good sleep make a big difference in how my body feels. I also go to the gym at 5:30am and do an hour of free weight strength training 4 days per week. If you guys are hurting all the time in your 40s, I would really advise you to do a full assessment of what you’re putting in your…

It's not literally pain all the time. More things like you said - much easier to overdo it in the gym or playing sports, especially if you don't warm up and cool down properly, plus occasional ridiculous injuries, like stretching too hard in the morning and having a muscle in your neck spasm as a result.

Re: Age Simulation Suit

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Post by barnabyjones »

stavros wrote: post #167
copperx wrote: post #116

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

Couldn't you do this with $500 in some Xreal Airs and a mobile phone running Parakeet right now?

Those look bulky, to support exactly the kind of feature creep I think will always be a problem with this category. I think there are a LOT of people who would simply not consider wearing them until the form factor is close to normal glasses, but it would be hard to convince any product manager not to expand into videos/games/music/AI/etc.

Re: Age Simulation Suit

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Post by barnabyjones »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #153
copperx wrote: post #116

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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 w…

I know my folks already watch movies with subtitles for this reason, and I would think sight issues can be calibrated for if the product is a pair of glasses? But idk how AR tech works with e.g. farsighted people who use reading glasses.

Re: Age Simulation Suit

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Post by stavros »

barnabyjones wrote: post #188
stavros wrote: post #167

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Couldn't you do this with $500 in some Xreal Airs and a mobile phone running Parakeet right now?

Those look bulky, to support exactly the kind of feature creep I think will always be a problem with this category. I think there are a LOT of people who would simply not consider wearing them until the form factor is close to normal glasses, but it would be hard to convince any product manager not to expand into videos/games/music/AI/etc.

What's the feature creep you see them support?
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