/sci/ - Science & Math

>>14816623
>If so, would you take it?
Is that even a question?

young people are universally stupid, why should anyone want to be one?

>>14816627
You wouldn't believe how many people claim that they would prefer to get old and die
>>14816631
You'd be the same age, just with the best physique

>>14816647
>You wouldn't believe how many people claim that they would prefer to get old and die
They just say that because they haven't thought through the implications and watched too much sci-fi.

>>14816623
Do you mean stopping aging and dying anyway when you're old? or live forever (unless someone kills you). Keep in mind it's like reprogramming yourself every time, so our body would heal itself by mutating in some previous/predetermined condition. It would mean you could cure all disease as well and many other consequences...Doesn't feel like we're close to that.

>>14816623
No. The whole field seems massively overhyped. When you look close at the leading figures like Sinclair and aubrey de gray, they really just seem to be about marketing their own brand for fame and wealth accumulation. There are some really smart people in the field who i believe are legit, like Manolis Kellis but he seems to be far more realistic and less speculative. I hope im wrong, aging is horrible, but eveeyone alive today is more likely to age and die, like every other human to have ever lived, than not.

>>14817099
>The whole field seems massively overhyped.
What's overhyped about billionaires paying you top dollar for basic research?

>>14816623
I don't like the ethical implications

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MBt7nLTKMis

>>14816647
>just with the best physique
>i have the best physique
vanity, i bet you jack off to yourself in the mirror

>>14816623
>If so, would you take it?
that's the n'th question. the first question is "would you be able to afford it?". the second question is "would the powers to be allow you to take it?"

>>14816623
No. I'd take it if it did, but I think that's extremely unlikely.

>>14816623
The recent worldwide phase 3 trial of genetic therapy was designed to see if anti-aging therapies could safely be deployed on the wealthy. The answer is that yes uptake of the gene therapy happens across the body, as shown by the presence of coded spike proteins on cells from biopsies in every organ.

So yeah they'll roll a version of it out soon. Probably test that on people in secret.

>>14816623
>Do you think stopping or reversing aging will happen in our life time?
Doubt it. At best we find slightly better anti aging treatments. It's simply far too complicated. It's not solving one issue, it's solving a million. Curing cancer, for one.

Obviously I'd take it, though. Why leave it to chance if you can control your death instead?

>>14816623
Wonder what the brain would do, if aging was stopped and the body was kept alive long enough.
Like would it eventually become "full" of experience and memories and start to malfunction in new ways? Ways that a normal 90 year old never comes close to?

>>14819343
The results have been underwhelming.

>>14819994
Its not solving a million. Its about repairing/undoing cellular damage/changes that happen with aging. Of which only 7(or 9 depending on how you classify) have been identified. No new new types of damage have been identified since the 1980s. If you can repair damage periodically and maintain a younger cellular phenotype throughout the body, then cancer rates would drop the levels found in young people. Trying to treat aging by curing 1 disease at a time is a fool's errand.

>>14816623
It already happened: https://www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2022/03/10-anti-aging-mice.htm
We can prolong the lifes of mices by 50%. Prolonging the lifes of humans will be a bit more complicated but some success was made there as well. Mices are not men and the biochemistry of high-level metabolistic animals like mices react different to humans but a groundwork has been achieved and it is imaginable that in the next quarter of this century the first life exentsion medicine hit the market. The Salk Insitute is a household name after all.
And yes I intend to life forever, of course, but barring that I would settle for 10'64 years. Even 500 years would be pretty nice.

>>14821006
Why?

>>14821016
Why what?

>>14816623
Isn't that what adrenochrome does?