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Age Reduction Breakthrough?

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Re: Age Reduction Breakthrough?

#41
post #25

Was told by my wife years ago that there is a Hong Kong tycoon who has been doing this for years. Supposedly hires young people to do nothing but to stay healthy and then has transfusions of their blood. Just checked and he is still alive at 91. But this echoes vampire. This reminds me of plasma treatment for covid-19 which is actually proven. Perhaps someone will create a market for that.

This was parodied in Silicon Valley - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBA0AH-LSbo

Re: Age Reduction Breakthrough?

#42
post #7

Do we really want to live in a world where the billionaires live forever?

How does it matter if a billionaire lives or dies? Their wealth is simply spread out to heirs or pet projects of theirs, no difference from when they're actually alive. Companies take on a life of their own, so Apple hasn't been damaged in any significant way after Jobs, likewise with Gates, Sergey & Larry etc.

Taxation will catch up, but I don't see any significant negative effects to society.

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#43
post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm missing the "good news" part...?

If the headline was "universal cure for cancer found!", would you also say "I'm missing the good news"?

Except it's nothing like "universal cure of cancer" so what's your point?

Re: Age Reduction Breakthrough?

#45

Age reduction. Enammel reconstruction. Batteries. The three pillars of perpetual breakthroughs.

Since 1990 the energy density if lithium ion has has increased by a factor of about 4, and the cost had reduced by a factor off about 6. While keeping in mind that consumer lithium ion itself was quite a breakthrough in terms of energy density in the first place.

Both of these metrics are still improving too.

Re: Age Reduction Breakthrough?

#46

Crucially, plasma treatment of the old rats [109 weeks] reduced the epigenetic ages of blood, liver and heart by a very large and significant margin, to levels that are comparable with the young rats Since I spend a lot of money on this kind of stuff I figured I'd share. The use of platelet rich plasma (PRP) is rapidly growing in the beauty industry. My wife has had PRP used in various procedures that have indeed cre…

how much does this cost on average?

Re: Age Reduction Breakthrough?

#47
As much as these things are very speculative, that is the necessary direction that we have to go in in order to maximize the chance of actually finding and then using these breakthroughs.

The only way to actually make significant progress in an area this difficult is to constantly be looking for answers everywhere we can.

Re: Age Reduction Breakthrough?

#48
post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm missing the "good news" part...?

If the headline was "universal cure for cancer found!", would you also say "I'm missing the good news"?

Depends on who has access. Do you think everyone will have equal access to this treatment?

Re: Age Reduction Breakthrough?

#49
post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm missing the "good news" part...?

If the headline was "universal cure for cancer found!", would you also say "I'm missing the good news"?

The announcement of something that (potentially) arbitrarily extends human life is, quite literally, an announcement of "universal dramatic increase in chances of developing cancer found!"

If we could all manage to avoid "normal natural causes" death for everyone under 1000 years old, we'd still all die of cancer well in advance of that age.

Re: Age Reduction Breakthrough?

#50
post #33
post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The implication of the article is that the treatment may not be extremely costly. Idk why you immediately start talking about billionaires. The divide would likely be between the poor and the middle class.

The World is seemingly already approaching the upper limit on the number of humans it can support.

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