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Isn't it weird how we were created by a supposedly "dumb" universe but yet we can't find the cheat code?
Because the process is ‘dumb’ (as you put it) we evolved via chaos rather than order. It therefore follows that how we work is complex and disordered - and an easy ‘cheat code’ doesn’t exist.
This article is a bit old (like the other comment about missing year tag says). I think there's newer news that AKG, an easy to get and cheap supplement, has anti-aging effects with no known issues. https://www.science.org/content/article/bodybuilding-supplem...
The actual paper is here [1]. And it’s not quite as conclusive in mammals yet. But it sounds like there is a clinical trial to actually study the supplement, which is a welcome thing in the anti-aging world. I’m happy to read that this work came out of the Buck Institute in Novato, which is a solid research institution. It’s also a beautiful campus. Disclaimer: I was there for a short stint as a postdoc a while back…
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We've got to be careful or we're going to end up with super-intelligent immortal mice!
Super intelligent, immortal, and free of cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer, and MS.
(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).
It was a great validation, that reversing epigenetics is possible in the human body, but using Yamanaka factors to do the same thing has much more investment dollars behind it (billions vs millions), so I believe it will be ready on the market faster.
Am I the only one who thinks immortality is a nightmare? I don't understand people who want to live forever.
I'd actually disagree with you - under the premise, you'd be able to end your life as you will.
In that case, hell yes, I'm in for that. I'm in my mid 20s and the past years have been filled with burn-out, depression and literal still stand career-/ education- wise. I can now really grasp how short life actually is. It's so easy (I did it!) to actually waste a notable portion of your life span.We're talking more than half a decade. It gives me shivers. I have so many interests and I'm never bored. I can find interesting topics in any domain and if I could, I'd stay in university my whole life. So, to make this short, I'd be the ultimate dream of mine to not have to care about what to fill my life with. It steamrolls me and I get a lot of fear out of it. But not the fear that drives you, the fear that paralyzes.
Am I the only one who thinks immortality is a nightmare? I don't understand people who want to live forever.
Am I the only one who thinks immortality is a nightmare? I don't understand people who want to live forever.
One thing I rarely see mentioned in regards to living forever is that during a life you will accumulate mental scars. My wife has lost a sister, and she's witnessed a murder. Neither she nor I are the same after those experiences. I don't think we will ever be. If we lived forever I think we would all become more and more anxious and excentric as time progressed and our souls inevitably became more "scarred". Maybe i…
This is good. I always say rich people can't be weird, only eccentric. And chances are if you live for a long time, you have more money :)
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.
Given that is the case and everything else being equal, I would prefer that exact scenario with an opportunity to live forever. Even if that means someone I don't like gets to try that too.