Glad that you read the article and commented!The Meat man wrote: ↑Fri Jun 30, 2023 6:52 pmWow, that article is wild.Naperville wrote: ↑Tue Jun 06, 2023 1:21 am
The Tech Messiahs Who Want to Deliver Us from Death
They see death as a software error—and they have a plan for fixing it. But should they?
By Suzy Weiss
May 24, 2023
https://www.thefp.com/p/tech-gods-immor ... um=reader2
To me, there's actually something very sad about such people...they become so obsessed with not dying that they forget to really live. Does that young man from Utah really look happy? He looks miserable, and who wouldn't be, obsessing over death constantly and refusing to accept his own mortality! He will die someday, as we all will - and it's hard to think of a worse regret than looking back on a wasted life, spent flailing uselessly in childish obstinance against something which countless millions have faced with dignity, grace, and calm.
The other folks in the article - the Collinses - treating their children like lab experiments is disturbing, to say the least.
None of this is directed at you Naperville, of course, and we should do all we can within reason to live a healthy life. But the stuff in this article is way out there and I wouldn't want anyone to get pulled into that futile, depressing obsession.
People trying to live healthier lives (an increase healthspan) are mixed in with the people trying to live to 250 years. Some of the ideas on how to do this are the same.
I'm 63 so my life is almost over. Just trying to make the best of what is left.
Medicine and science have had some luck over the past 50 years in increasing healthspan, i.e. you still die at around the same age that you naturally would but those years would be very active and very healthy. Eventually lifespan will increase, and charts that I have seen show that over the last 500 years it has already dramatically increased.
Over the next 25 years I think breakthroughs are going to happen in medicine where living to 120 is likely. 25 years is a long time but I don't see it happening any earlier than that. They have a lot of biological systems to research. I thought that all of the human systems and how organs worked were well understood, but that is false!
I am on Twitter and I follow a number of longevity research labs, hospitals, scientists and doctors and the things the are working on seem like the least significant work, but understanding these biological systems and being able to control them as we age is where real breakthroughs will happen.
Artificial intelligence will make it happen.