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  • Comprehensive49@lemmygrad.ml
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    23 days ago

    Critical support. Once research into longevity settles down, these can become standard treatments as part of universal healthcare. It will save money by (1) preventing the development of expensive age-related diseases, (2) allowing citizens to work and play longer, making back more of the state’s investment into their childhood and education, and (3) preventing the loss of knowledge from death, the largest drain on our collective human knowledge.

    Of course, we must be careful are eventually made available to all, not just to make wealthy capitalists immortal.

    • darkernations@lemmygrad.ml
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      23 days ago

      Of course, we must be careful are eventually made available to all, not just to make wealthy capitalists immortal.

      Meths of Altered Carbon

    • somename [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      23 days ago

      Yeah, there’s certainly nothing wrong inherently with longevity research. Ways to slow ageing are good for everyone, in abstract. Living longer is good, and living while effectively “younger” is good too. A universal human urge.

      I’m always a bit skeptical of miracle cure type proclamations, as there’s a lot of rich people desperately wanting to avoid death, so they throw a bunch of money at stuff. But if one of these snake oil things ends up actually working, hey, I won’t disparage it.

    • stink@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      23 days ago

      preventing the loss of knowledge from death, the largest drain on our collective human knowledge.

      My Neuralink uploads my thoughts and memories every night to my own personalized LLM hosted on Grok’s platform

  • huquad@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    23 days ago

    Oh, I’m not stupid, Lucius. No one lives forever. No one. But with advances in modern science, and my high level of income, I mean, it’s not crazy to think I can’t live to be 245, maybe 300. Heck, I just read in the newspaper that they put a pig heart in some guy from Russia. Do you know what that means?