/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.9861567]

will we really be the last generation in human history to not have access to decent life extension tech?

[Anonymous No.9861571]

>>9861567
>>>/church/

[Anonymous No.9861576]

>>9861567
Depends on how old are you. If you're 15, there are a considerable amount of probabilities that you will live more than 150 years.
If you're 20-25 like me, it's a little bit more hard. If you're 30, it's really, really hard. At 40 or >40 you won't make it

[Anonymous No.9861577]

>>9861576
i'm 27

[Anonymous No.9861586]

>>9861577
Not gonna make it

[Anonymous No.9861591]

>>9861576
Is the 5 year difference between 15 and 20 really that significant in the grand scheme of things?

[Anonymous No.9861596]

>>9861571
Get fucked christcuck.

[Anonymous No.9861599]

>>9861576
I am 38 :(

[Anonymous No.9861608]

I'm 22 and could die anytime with no regrets.
Get on my level.

[Anonymous No.9861610]

>>9861567

The only thing this generation will be known for is for being the last generation that lived before the internet.

[Miniature Spacecraft No.9861611]

>>9861567
2020 is the beginning of the serious business

[Miniature Spacecraft No.9861614]

>>9861611
forget the pic

[Anonymous No.9861616]

>>9861567
The fuck do you mean OP? We've got buildings full of professional life extenders open 24/7 with treatments so good we can expect to live far past 60

[Anonymous No.9861618]

>>9861576
You need to realize that you are very specifically predicting that in the decade 2080 there will be a medical breakthrough so impactful and precise, that it will (for some reason) only work on those who are 70 years or younger, but not ~85 which results in an a doubling of age of the 70 year old and no effect whatsoever on the latter.

That is to say your prediction is based on nothing whatsoever and is a bad prediction at that.

[Anonymous No.9861621]

>>9861614
Garbage. I like how they chuck a few things in like "open records" alongside exoskeletons by 2020 so that criticism can be offset by "but look we're already doing that!"

[Anonymous No.9861627]

>>9861596
You have to be over the age of 18 to post here.

[Anonymous No.9861630]

>>9861621
Nah it's probably correct
>tfw it's likely i'll live ~500 years

[Anonymous No.9861632]

>life extension tech
Is this the modern version of flying cars?

[Anonymous No.9861642]

Just inject a bunch of dasatinib and quercetin, pussy.

There's your life extension right there.

[Miniature Spacecraft No.9861645]

>>9861632
>flying cars
It's literally a thing

>Uber is releasing new information about Uber Air, an ambitious plan to launch a fleet of autonomous flying taxis in two years.

[Anonymous No.9861648]

>>9861632
flying cars exist, they're called "helicopters"

[Anonymous No.9861654]

>>9861567
More like we'll be the last generation with access to decent life extension tech since civilization is going to collapse in a few decades

[Anonymous No.9861658]

>>9861645
>>9861648
And just like LE tech will surely be, those things are employed by a small minority. Your autism never fails. "Flying Cars" is a stand-in for "baller shit that'll surely be widely used and affordable in 50 years."

We can't even cure basic shit. Most of humanity lives like peasants. Even if we get meme gene-editing, do you really think we're gonna give everybody the key and dump a malthusian load like that on our dwindling resources? Where's the money in that?

[Anonymous No.9861667]

>>9861658
biotech is now following similar rules to moores law, meaning that it's unlikely that any sort of cure will remain extremely expensive for very long. As for the benefits, it means that you will not have to pay for pensioners (needing to uphold the population pyramid being one of the biggest problems in modern society), and can use their skills pretty much indefinitely, leading to a competitive advantage and returns on your investment. Not to mention people would get upset if you could distribute eternal youth but didn't.

[Miniature Spacecraft No.9861668]

>>9861658
>We can't even cure basic shit
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[Anonymous No.9861676]

>>9861667
Your faith in public-awareness is misplaced, and there's little goodwill in business. The dwindling of it to even less is one prediction I feel comfortable with.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/curing-disease-not-a-sustainable-business-model-goldman-sachs-analysts-say/

>>9861668
Not an argument, namefag.

[Anonymous No.9861677]

If you want to live forever you're going to need to skip right over biological bullshit. Machines are the future. Don't even worry about trying to integrate most of the organs with machines. Most organs can be completely replaced. Don't need a stomach you run on electricity. Don't need a liver or lungs you have no blood. Besides, you can probably just through yourself on ice for a few hundred years if you're rich enough. So stop shit posting on a nazi basket weaving forum and make some money you rats.

[Anonymous No.9861683]

>>9861676
I'm not talking business, I'm talking governments. Businesses don't care about customers, government does. Now, not because the government is inherently benevolent, but citizens have a much tighter bond with their government than companies do with customers. Extending the life of citizens will give them a more educated worker base.

Also, life extension is unlikely to work with a one-shot cure, because you can't stop the damage from accumulating without significant metabolic restructuring, which is basically a nightmare. It would more likely come in the form of periodic treatments. And either way, you won't be able to actually maintain a clientele if your customers keep, you know, dropping dead, so companies would have nothing to gain from not implementing a one-stop solution to aging.