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Horray, the rich will live forever! All hail our immortal overlords!
Don’t worry we'll live forever too since now we won't have to retire
Yeah, check out Altered Carbon (the first book or the first season) for how this would likely play out.
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I guess this is the future that will come sooner or later...
Btw if someone doubts about it - it's already happening. Here is the example.
All technology is initially available to only the rich. But it can be widely available, if people demand it.
Also, those pills don’t work anyway so don’t get too worried yet.
Jokes aside, are we just cribbing from sci-fi cart blânche these days?! I mean, sure "Art imitates Life imitates Art", but still. When the only dead are the poors (>99% of humanity itself), the entire species will certainly collapse. (Where's the "bridge of nose pinch + sigh" emoji when you need it?) 🤷🏼♂️
All technology is initially available to only the rich. But it can be widely available, if people demand it.
Also, those pills don’t work anyway so don’t get too worried yet.
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I came to the thread to post that, but here it is on the top ✊
Couldn’t you wait until Mitch Mconnell died until you released this? I’d rather not him be in the senate forever.
I was thinking Henry Kissinger
Full text of actual paper: https://www.aging-us.com/full/204896
Tldr; seems like decent science and the compounds used are fairly ordinary ones for the most part. Note however this is all in vitro so far and it might be a challenge to deliver the same chemicals in the same concentrations to all the senescent cells of the body.
Prepare to see these ingredients added in insignificant amounts to expensive skin creams before the year is out, whether they can penetrate the epidermis or not
Even if for the rich, this would be good news. The rich and powerful will stop ignoring things like distant climate related deadlines, if they think they'll be alive to feel their effects.
This is the such a silver lining take I never would have thought of. Well done.
No they won't. The answer remains hard vore.
I honestly don't think so. I don't think they care of the condition worsen, including theirs as long as they stay above the poorer people.
Like, if we look at the living condition of a medieval era king. You live in a stone castle do your bedroom as freezing temperature in winter, terrible healthcare so you might be in terrible pain for things that easily treatable, no hygiene the smells everywhere must be horrible... Compared with the comfort of a normal person in a developed country. ( Not the US though, now like Denmark or Switzerland) the modern life is clearly way more comfortable.
However I suspect that a lot of people, especially richer people would prefer to be the king, despite the conditions.
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Ahh, immortal super-rich people whose views get more and more conservative as they age forever... What an exciting future to look forward to!
The only upside I can think of is they'd actually start caring about the planet instead of thinking they'll be dead in 100 years anyway.
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I see one potential good thing though: maybe people would be less interested in killing the only planet that supports human life if they knew they were going to be on it forever.
“As long as men die. Liberty will never fail.”
The sci-fi type implications of this would be astounding. We would see a rapidly increasing global population with high natural resource use. On a philosophical level, is living forever a blessing or a curse?
I doubt it works on anything but skin cells.
We could start by giving it to congress
Immortal, corrupt, power-mad billionaires, great idea...
Wouldn't want them to miss out of their fun for a moment! Now they can torture generations of people~
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Why does the woman in the first photo appear to be molding?
Molting*
can you name a better way to ride in the multipassenger HOV lane when nobody else is going your direction?
save that shit, molts come in handy
Before people lose their minds, this research, while interesting, is very far from true aging reversal. At most it could be one aspect of it.
The comments be like: I didn’t read the article, here my pissed off reaction calling for 1984
Good thing you brought us a bunch of useful information with you from the other side.
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Heh, science journalism.
Ugh. I barely want to live my whole life on this planet with the ways it is going.. let alone reverse back into my 20s with no actual "new game+"
I would think suddenly being able to go back to your 20s is the NG+.
Why a cure for ageing would benefit everyone and not solely the ultra wealthy
If you put aside ethical and humanitarian reasons for making a cure for ageing widely available, there is still economic considerations, i.e. if you are a government you will be presented with a choice between:
Do I pay to treat people for ageing, even though the treatment might initially be expensive, or do I let them age without intervention?
The former option might actually be significantly cheaper because people in an advanced state of ageing cost more money. They have more diseases, since many diseases are age related such as dementia, cancer and cardiac disease, and need more healthcare and also can't work anymore.
If instead, the government pays for rejuvenation treatment they save on all the other healthcare costs and their people don't have to stop being productive.
So perhaps in the future when a cure for ageing is actually developed it will be made available for everyone rich and poor alike
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Full journal article here
https://www.aging-us.com/article/204896/text
"Thus, rejuvenation by age reversal can be achieved, not only by genetic, but also chemical means."
-- Journal article abstract
This feels like stuff from a Star Trek episode.
Our society is so far from that though. I feel like this would break our society currently where the rich will only have access to it.
this is the worst it's just going to be available to rich assholes
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