Eureka! (not politics, covid or war)

[cytg111]

So you want to continue with the "infinite growth on a finite planet thing"?

I just assume we end the fake bullshit economy and try the sustainable one, if we want to not have a complete collapse - because that's real and it's coming.

Nah dude. Mars and beyond

 

[cytg111]

It has been quite a while since I took biology, but aren't part of our aging problems spurred by errors introduced randomly during cell division? Is this suggesting that we would essentially use these magical-sounding cells to replace our existing, aging, error-riddled ones? Would it also be capable of rebuilding portions that have been lost due to wear such as cartilage loss leading to arthritis?

Not quite, its in the vid.. It appears that the errors is not on the genome it self but rather the mechanism that inactivates DNA .. you know all DNA is in every single cell but only a small part of it is exposured, part a = braincell, part b = skincell, so on and so forth. Basically you'd be able to rewind a stemcell to REGROW cartilage, so its my understand it would take some extra work to get cartilage back, but probably just injections...as they do with stem cells now on knees and other joints... it'd just be stem cells on steroids.

 

[Jaskalas]

But, do you really want to live to be 500? Not me

It'll take a wee bit more than 500 to see Pangea.
Alas, the real question is - would you even remember your youth? To put it another way. At age 500, would you know anything that happened at 300 and below? Maybe not.

 

[nakedfrog]

If I lived to be 500, I could probably do everything I'd like to do... but I might find more new things to do along the way, too.

 

[nakedfrog]

It'll take a wee bit more than 500 to see Pangea.
Alas, the real question is - would you even remember your youth? To put it another way. At age 500, would you know anything that happened at 300 and below? Maybe not.

I'm not sure the course of events leading to the reformation of Pangaea would be survivable by humans... well, from down here, anyway.

 

[ch33zw1z]

what happens when all of the 60 year-olds now want to keep working until they are 120, and no more jobs exist for the next several generations?

All these dopey utopians that think long, eternal life is good, never seem to consider what this means for actual generations of real humans. I mean, imagine if boomers suddenly became immortal: new laws that restrict eternal life only to their class. Fuck all you but hey, we're going it to save the planet of course--you should thank us!

That's what would happen.

The last thing I would want to do with a reset to 25 is work more. It's like, work til 65, reset, go play

 

[Zorba]

There's not a finite amount of jobs on the planet, the explosion of advancements in human civilation have been brought about precisely because we freed up labor from necessary but less beneficial pursuits; farming instead of gathering, tinkering instead of farming, etc.

Having people live longer yet still remain productive would be a boon to civilization.

If people stop dying, you have to stop creating new people.

I'd like to see people live healthy and well to 80-90, then poof heart gives out. Do we really need/want people to accumulate hundreds of years of bitterness? Innovation is also driven by the young.

 

[Mai72]

The last thing I would want to do with a reset to 25 is work more. It's like, work til 65, reset, go play

What if you don't make it to 65? My mom passed at 65. We need to stop taking life so casually. There are no guarantees that any of else will make it another year, let alone 65. I'd also argue that your prime years have gone by, so why no play at 50? Or 35? Or even 25? Most of us take life for granted and what we really need to do is have some kind of urgency for this one life. This is also where we need to take care of ourselves optimally, so if we are fortunate enough to have a long life, its filled with awesome memories. And, not filled with 60 hours of tv watching a week which sadly happens to far too many old people.

 

[Mai72]

If people stop dying, you have to stop creating new people.

I'd like to see people live healthy and well to 80-90, then poof heart gives out. Do we really need/want people to accumulate hundreds of years of bitterness? Innovation is also driven by the young.

Yea. Imagine if no one died. Or, people lived until they were 200, or 500. That would cause all kind of serious issues. Death has a purpose. We have to stop thinking that death is bad. Birth and death have a fundemental purpose on earth. Death, and old age clears out the old and the unfortunate because it needs to make way for the new.

 

[cytg111]

Yea. Imagine if no one died. Or, people lived until they were 200, or 500. That would cause all kind of serious issues. Death has a purpose. We have to stop thinking that death is bad. Birth and death have a fundemental purpose on earth. Death, and old age clears out the old and the unfortunate because it needs to make way for the new.

Death dont have a purpose anymore, the time where natural selection was a driver for our race is well behind us, actually we're just running around and being less and less human for each generation as ever so slightly more errors make it into the new offspring.

Of course this is where gene editing comes into play . Lets GOOOOO....
We'll implement a zero child policy and hold a lottery for those interested in breeding whenever someone kicks it due to murder / meteor strike / suicide / whatever

 

[hal2kilo]

I don't know. Anybody ever see the movie Zardoz with Sean Connery? That didn't work out so well. It was all for the elites anyway.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Only thing worse than getting old is dying. If there's a way to reverse or just slow either, sign me up.

 

[cytg111]

It'll take a wee bit more than 500 to see Pangea.
Alas, the real question is - would you even remember your youth? To put it another way. At age 500, would you know anything that happened at 300 and below? Maybe not.

Only the reinforced memories would be my guess, otherwise it’d fade ever so slightly diminished. Thats how the neural net functions, you add information to it at the cost of ever so slightly diminishing the information already there.
Maybe Elons neuralink brain chips can help

 

[nakedfrog]

I don't know. Anybody ever see the movie Zardoz with Sean Connery? That didn't work out so well. It was all for the elites anyway.

I've tried to forget that I have