/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11553323
Making these shitty threads every day won't make scientists discover it sooner.

>>11553334
lol nice

>>11553323
>secret of aging
it's called RNA.

>>11553323
Artificial General Intelligence is 10 years away. Immortality is 10 years and 5 minutes away.

ive seen this same thread 5 times a week for the last 10 years

>>11553369
data mining for 10 years and still not getting it. lol. plebe

>>11553323
Immortality would be the shitiest thing to happen to us. Why would you want to live forever? You'd get bored of yourself and crave death. After an eternity passes, you still have an eternity left. Google "the problem with immortality on Reddit" and click the first link. Immortality is literal hell. Existence is suffering and if that suffering never ends, that would be the greatest tragedy. There's a reason we die. Death is a gift, not life. You might enjoy your immortality for the first 7,500 or so years, but eventually you will go insane from existing as yourself and wish for death.

>>11553323
https://www.unz.com/akarlin/aubrey-de-grey-getting-more-optimistic-on-life-extension/

>>11553323
The problem is cell division. Cells have a limit to the number of times they can divide. Even if you could create nanomachines smart enough to inject stem cells into targeted areas over the course of your life time, that would still require some kind of stem-cell injection every god knows how long.

>>11553389
Low IQ post. Imagine a mathematician being able to study for hundreds of years, to gain the level of expertise impossible to obtain in our limited lifetime. Ramanujan living until 2200, grothendieck still quite young, all of them solving every possible conjecture that pops into their heads. Physicists not being hindered by having to wait for the next generation to study and get onto the theoretical scene. Every field of research unhindered by having to completely replace their experts every 30 years.

Of course, eternal life is off the table, but I wouldn't mind living for a couple thousand years, have a couple children along the way.

>>11553410
Genetics is the only way. Japs, Jews, Germans, Italians, all have high numbers of centenarians, and it's mostly genetic.

>>11553418
Genetics can help lengthen but it doesn't stop the cell division limit.

>The Hayflick limit, or Hayflick phenomenon, is the number of times a normal human cell population will divide before cell division stops.

>>11553411
Do me a favor and look into antinatalism and efilism and then get back to me.

>>11553389
it's about how mature a adult can really get and even tho i've lived a really long time i can say this... when you hit 30 that's it. lmao. no maturing past that... and if you're still watching cartoons at that age your pretty screwed.

>>11553411
Grothendieck got bored with math and retired at 40

>>11553548
On and off relationship more like it. Besides, if you lived for a couple thousand years, you'd get bored after the first couple centuries instead.

>>11553323
>>11553404

Immortality weirdos have the worst priorities for science. Want to know how to make humans live longer? Fix the things that kill them.

In other words, cure things like:
-cancer
-alzheimer's disease
-heart disease
-diabetes
-infectious diseases
-inherited genetic diseases

"Plan A" in your picture calls for "curing chronic and neglected diseases" from 2015-2020. That didn't happen, so the roadmap is already bullshit. End of thread.

>>11553389
You do know that you can let go of life if you want to, right? If you get bored, just kill yourself. Unless OP's referring to actual immortality. Either way, you could just go to eternal sleep-- I'm sure that'd be possible if you could become immortal.

>>11553323
The day after you die

>>11553357
Based Yud

>>11553357
Artificial general intelligence won't be able to help much

>>11553389
>Why would you want to live forever?
That's none of your business, pleb.
>>11553389
>You'd get bored of yourself and crave death.
Fuck you, I won't. I'm a very fun to myself.
>>11553389
>After an eternity passes, you still have an eternity left.
Good.
>>11553389
>Death is a gift, not life.
Your death might be a gift.
>>11553389
>You might enjoy your immortality for the first 7,500 or so years, but eventually you will go insane from existing as yourself and wish for death.
No, I'd enjoy life forever.

>>11553570
They are actually working on all of those things you mentioned in your list.

>>11553389
I'll judge by myself but thanks for the advice kind priest.

>>11553404
For a so called life extensionist the guy that came up with all that stuff doesn't seem to be putting in much effort to actually follow it.

>>11554228
"They" meaning already established researchers. Aubrey de Grey's grants were cited one exactly one paper for all of 2018.

There is no reason why changing everyone's mindset to indefinitely extending human life will change the trajectory of medical research. People are already working on the important problems.

>>11553389
Found the Christcuck.

Give me 5-10 years and i'll figure it out

>>11553389
Correct
So many arrogant pieces of shit who think that they could even begin to endure living for centuries or millennia. What laughable little worms they are.

>>11553389
>muh eternal boredom
What makes you think boredom could never be cured? Boredom is ultimately caused by chemical reactions in your brain. You could use wireheading to re-engineer your brain to make it physically impossible to feel boredom.

https://qualiacomputing.com/2016/08/20/wireheading_done_right/

>>11553323
We know why people age.
So minus some amount of years?