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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (8 children)

If you want a bit of a deeper dive, Sean Carroll's Mindscape gets into the science of aging and known workable remedies/treatments.

The good news is that Billionaires will not be living forever any time soon.

The bad news is that we've got a cellularly defined terminal limit and there's nothing we can do to simply reset the clock. "Cloned Bodies" for animals are dysfunctional bordering on nightmarish. The human brain's plasticity isn't something you can renew with a pill or a potion. Blood Boys don't work. There aren't trivially replaceable components in the human body.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Its wild this research is even being attempted, its borderline unethical to experiment on otherwise healthy people.

I fully don't expect immune system driven aging to be understood until the Thymus better understood. DNA reproduction and telomere related aging will not be addressable until cell to cell signaling is finally mapped, and methylation activation/deactivation can be targeted.

Most likely some kind of cloned brain tissue can help reduce age-related cognitive decline and some diseases. Imo we'd get far more out of targeting specific diseases than going after aging.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I'd be fine with billionaires getting it first. As much as I'm not a fan of late stage capitalism, I refuse to cut off my nose to spite my face; they got A/C, feather beds, cars, baths, and all sorts of other luxuries long before us plebs got them. Let them beta test the stuff, and by the time the economies of scale pick up enough for it to be affordable to the rest of us, the kinks will be worked out.

Of course there's always the possibility of a cartel withholding it from the masses, but that's what the second amendment and guillotines were invented for.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Plenty of meat bags walking around now without a fully functioning brain. Can we use those?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

No. Absolutely not. Whenever anyone says, "wouldn't it be great to live forever" remember that means people like trump and Musk are with us forever. Unless people take things into their own hands, but that's another issue.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

means people like trump and Musk are with us forever.

But that would also mean their polar opposites would also be with us forever, the objectively best of us

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Something something Doctor Who Cybermen.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

they tried that a few years back via a quadraplegics brain transplant to a normal body. he died on the table. not likely to change that with cloning

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I've just looked it up and there has never been a full brain transplant, so I don't know what you're on about.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Somebody’s been watching Picard.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Brain updates? Now with integrated thought-crime prevention using AI-safety training data.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's a trick most of the population can do to "youth up". Rewind decades of biological age for your entire body. The answer is out there. Start with the jungle people that even in old age have hearts like 20yr olds.

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