Being old for our generation will be awesome. I'll just play Starcraft all day with other geezers.
When your apm dips under 100 though, it probably won’t be as fun. Think chess blitz matches
But you'll be fine on NA servers.
The Future of Aging Just Might Be in Margaritaville
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
The tricky part is distinguishing between things that are successful and things that just haven't obviously failed . Tradition might not always be the best of all possible guides here, as it tends to be a collection of things whose primary commendation is that they didn't immediately cause a society to fail.
> [tradition] tends to be a collection of things whose primary commendation is that they didn't immediately cause a society to fail. Not at all. Traditions become traditions over long periods of time. Thus, they tend to be collections of things that haven't caused a societal failure in the last several hundred years, which is a much better record than not causing immediate failure.
I have a friend who rarely uses crosswalks. He tends to walk into traffic while shouting "Plot armor!". He has yet to be run over, so this has an excellent track record. Yet I suspect it just might be other than the greatest of all possible ideas, despite the lack of demonstrated failures.
(Yes, this is absurd. Yes, I've told him this is clearly a bad idea. Yes, it's actually true.)
Which is to say one should be cautious of survivorship biases and the role of context. Judging traditions as successful based on a limited context where they haven't obviously failed both ignores the situation upon which they may depend and other scenarios where precisely those might have failed. Like the other people who have tried what my friend has and been rendered into chunky salsa for it.
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#43If a even a small fraction of the effort spent on trying and failing to cope with the realities of degenerative aging was spent on the current crop of plausible approaches to build medical biotechnologies that can reverse degenerative aging, then the world would be a much better place. Aging has an monstrously high economic cost, and is probably the only area of medicine in which the ratio of that cost to the amount…
Probably assume it will simply delay the inevitable.
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#45Is good to be learn avoiding a disease, but humans immortality is bad. Lets my body is then later the energy, food, scientific experiment, whatever, rather than being locked in one room all the time. Human is not an endangered species.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hope you're not waiting until you retire to enjoy your free time and your community.
No, I'm waiting for the day I can avoid the world of work, which has become progressively shittier since I graduated college in the early 90s. When I started as a developer, it was NORMAL for an employer to: - 1:1 match 401k fully, some even offered pensions - offer PAID vacation time, not this bullshit scam "unlimited PTO" which is really just unpaid vacation. - offer full zero-deductible/zero-contribution health in…
Unlimited PTO policies are paid time off, but not contractual accrued leave. As descendant posts say, you do not need to account for unlimited PTO whereas you need to account for annual leaves. This only matters at the time of quitting the institution.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
> [tradition] tends to be a collection of things whose primary commendation is that they didn't immediately cause a society to fail. Not at all. Traditions become traditions over long periods of time. Thus, they tend to be collections of things that haven't caused a societal failure in the last several hundred years, which is a much better record than not causing immediate failure.
I have a friend who rarely uses crosswalks. He tends to walk into traffic while shouting "Plot armor!". He has yet to be run over, so this has an excellent track record. Yet I suspect it just might be other than the greatest of all possible ideas, despite the lack of demonstrated failures. (Yes, this is absurd. Yes, I've told him this is clearly a bad idea. Yes, it's actually true.) Which is to say one should be caut…
this story is hilarious and infuriating at the same time, I hope no other people will get hurt because of that bs.
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#48If a even a small fraction of the effort spent on trying and failing to cope with the realities of degenerative aging was spent on the current crop of plausible approaches to build medical biotechnologies that can reverse degenerative aging, then the world would be a much better place. Aging has an monstrously high economic cost, and is probably the only area of medicine in which the ratio of that cost to the amount…
Probably assume it will simply delay the inevitable.
Death is inevitable, senescence is not. There is not reason to believe that humans can't live in the bodies of healthy twenty year olds until they're killed in an accident or the universe runs out of usable negentropy.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hoping to be a brain in a jar TBH
Nice futurama reference. Curious scientifically when we would get there if at all
It's not really a Futurama reference, brain-in-a-vat is a well known concept from philosophy and science fiction that predates Futurama.
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#50I might consider such a community, but 55 is way too early for me. More like 70 or later.
Lack of focused activities are also a factor in wasting away