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I wouldn't be surprised by that at all. Cell immortality is doable and nearly within our reach.
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he s wrong, we won't even be able to stop bacteria by 2029. a shit ton of people will die every year due to infections. or not...but probably
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Live forever? Awesome!
What's the catch? Oh, I have to drink the blood of innocents? |
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Yeah, how many of you are still holding out for flying cars and weekend vacations to the moon?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/magazine/ray-kurzweil-says-were-going-to-live-forever.html?_r=0
This must be his thing. Don't worry, the guy who helped with Obamacare wants us to die. He's even vehement about himself dying at 75. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/10/why-i-hope-to-die-at-75/379329/ http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/09/22/obamacare_architect_ezekiel_emanuel_75_an_ideal_age_to_die.html |
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Fuck all that noise. I sure as fuck don't want to live forever.
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He predicts that date because he thinks he has a shot of making it. That guy is and always has been the world's biggest wishful thinker.
It may happen but he won't make the cut and I probably won't either even being in my 30s today. |
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He predicts that date because he thinks he has a shot of making it. That guy is and always has been the world's biggest wishful thinker. It may happen but he won't make the cut and I probably won't either even being in my 30s today. View Quote It's almost as if he's terrified of Death, but for what reason? |
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... and by "We" he means the rich and politically connected.
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If I can't get the wetware to last forever, I'd settle for having nano-machines, right before my death, disassemble my brain molecule by molecule and build a map that can be run as a simulation in a giant quantum computer.
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If I can't get the wetware to last forever, I'd settle for having nano-machines, right before my death, disassemble my brain molecule by molecule and build a map that can be run as a simulation in a giant quantum computer. View Quote What makes you think you're not a sim right now? |
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If I can't get the wetware to last forever, I'd settle for having nano-machines, right before my death, disassemble my brain molecule by molecule and build a map that can be run as a simulation in a giant quantum computer. What makes you think you're not a sim right now? Nothing. I want one that doesn't include death. So sim within a sim it is. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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In 13 years? I don't believe it will happen.
Even if it were accomplished... Imagine being born into a world where there is no turn over. Everything would be already be owned. That's if you were allowed to be born at all. |
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He'd probably be right if we stopped pissing away money on lazy fuckers who refuse to work for themselves.
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Human progress would grind to a halt. Or we would finally be motivated to move to the stars. One of the many reasons why I hate the book manifold space. The planet earth is falling apart and China is still under the control of the same bunch of communists that are in charge now. Specifically mentioned that it is not just the party its the exact same guys. Or am I thinking of manifold time? Who cares. All I can say is. If I am still around 500 years from now and they are still in charge of China I will be very upset. |
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I'm in the biomedical engineering field and I bet it ain't happening.
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Because we know all the great scientific discoveries of our time were announced/predicted in playboy.
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If/when it happens, we won't know.
Their numbers will build, slowly. Us ephimerals won't begin to figure it out a few hundred years. Immortals who break the Code will be offed. more to the point, immortals will live like a benign tumor on humanity at large. |
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Quoted: Maybe it will only be the rich and elite who are able to afford it. Like that movie The Island View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: The stupidest, most worthless, uneducated, hateful, spiteful, selfish piece of trash humans living forever? That will lead to the extinction of the entire species. Imagine welfare, not for 75 years, but 1000. Maybe it will only be the rich and elite who are able to afford it. Like that movie The Island If you buy into Kurzweil's theories (some of which are, to say the least, out there), not so much. Short version is what happens to capitalism when the concept of scarcity is largely dead, at least for the basic essentials of life? What happens when the concept of "labor" is basically dead? These are the pillars on which capitalism (and hell, most every other economic system) sit. Improvements in AI and automation are increasingly going to alter aspects of our economy in ways that are outside what we've experienced in the past. The typically seen dystopian future vision is largely incompatible with those ideas. |
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Quoted: World is already overpopulated. Don't need people living longer. View Quote Population growth drops shortly after societies stop needing children for economic reasons. In such a world, the bigger risk is that we don't even have enough births to replace people who die of other causes (accidents, etc). Living forever may very well kill off the human race, ironically. |
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Oh, I'm familiar with the concept, just don't think it's going to happen any time soon...meaning my lifetime. Same thing with fusion energy. As far as promises...I'm old, bitter and cynical. Guess how much I believe in promises. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Oh goody. I get to be 90 years old forever...somehow I'm not exactly thrilled at the idea. The promises they will make will change your mind. A new "body" will be offered. Watch the anime flick called Ghost in the shell. The transhuman/ machine Goodies will be amazing. Oh, I'm familiar with the concept, just don't think it's going to happen any time soon...meaning my lifetime. Same thing with fusion energy. As far as promises...I'm old, bitter and cynical. Guess how much I believe in promises. We have had fusion all worked out in the laboratory for decades, we are just getting the bugs worked so it is more practical, and by laboratory I mean hydrogen bomb test fields. |
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They would have to have some sort of population control, the world is already overpopulated.
I imagine something like death panels would do the trick. |
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I will see his prediction and make another one.
Life expectancy will decline precipitously as drug resistant bacteria cause a host of (primarily) respiratory illnesses. Pneumonia, TB, and sepsis will be the future. I have seen it and few are spared. The future will also feature more amputations caused by runaway infections. LIfe expectancy by 2030 will be 52 for males in America, 54 for females. In other words 30 will be the new 60. So, who is with me? Raise your one good arm and let out a bloody frothy gurgle! TO THE FUTURE!!! |
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A lot will have to happen in the next 30 years to make that a reality, but Kurzweil isn't fazed: He predicts that nano machines capable of taking over for our immune system (to fix problems like cancerous cells and clogged arteries) and connecting our brains to the cloud will be available by then. View Quote Interesting he doesn't mention using nano-machines to repair imperfect DNA replications that beget more imperfections in the mitotic cycle of cell division. |
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