and the bourgeoisie, a temporary regulation would be needed in those areas of the world to separate the upper class from the capability of the rulers
in western nations where that’s not possible, I could see national bans, but one weak link globally and everyone wealthy will get their treatment there
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If something like this ever becomes a practical application on the organismal level, the octogenarian dictators of the world will rejoice.
I’d be far more worried about this causing turbo cancer than immortality in dictators.
It might be beneficial if it gives turbo cancer to the dictators, of course.
Eh, we might see some benefit to leaders having a reason to care about stuff 10+ years from now.
That'll be the commoners' problem; they'll be planning out how to survive the next 300 years.
To expand, we might find out the hard way that having an expiration date was a feature of our species, not a flaw.
That’s a coping mechanism because we can’t change it.
Wasn't death a requirement for us to reach this current stage of human evolution? I don't think it is a good idea to stop it entirely.
Evolution of humans by natural selection is already over with - or at least proceeding at time scales irrelevant to our civilization.
Why is it over all of a sudden?
Indeed; the biggest reason is surely cancer.
and the bourgeoisie, a temporary regulation would be needed in those areas of the world to separate the upper class from the capability of the rulers
in western nations where that’s not possible, I could see national bans, but one weak link globally and everyone wealthy will get their treatment there
The world of Altered Carbon seems more and more possible every day.
My goodness, what a show that was.-
An undying trillionaire class definitely sounds like a possible future. Not an ideal one, mind you, but definitely in the realm of possibilities.
I'm calling it now, Qatar will be the place that allows these treatments once they're a real thing.
I have to imagine the Uber wealthy are pouring money into youthful longevity science.
The Island of Dr. Ellison
My nightmare is that we solve aging just in time for the Baby Boomers to live forever.
Slightly tangential: Michael Levin’s work on bioelectricity and cell reprogramming is pretty interesting in context of emergent behaviors in groups of cells. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Levin_(biologist)
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13634082/
I’m on a ton of lists and I still have tsa pre and global entry
Interesting flex, is that a metric or an American tonne?
there’s enough context to guess