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Anti-aging expert (and IEET Fellow) Aubrey de Grey gives advice on how to extend your life long enough to be around when scientists defeat human mortality.
... of course you are correct, Aubrey; in fact extending lifespans has been such a successful effort that pension programs are stressed.
What I wonder is, will the quality of life match the quantity? for instance today people live longer in ghetto areas, but what kind of lives are they living? are most people even in advanced nations merely stumbling through? Will the political situation improve, or will it remain as confused & confusing as it is now? Will the GOP elect another memoir-writing lapdog in 2016? (hopefully Obama will be re-elected to if nothing else furnish us a four year reprieve).
Extreme life extension is only possible with greatly maintained quality IOW rejuvenation, which is his plan. Extending fraily is hard. Extending youth is (in comparison) easy because it is a matter of repair (which is easier than prevention in this case, though of course if prevention were magically achieved that would be preferable, but prevention is nearly impossible).
Hard to explain. Naturally, as a transhumanist I don't want to preclude possibilities, even perhaps teleportation: every generation thinks it has discovered much of what there is to know in physics, but then eventually so many new discoveries are made that we can scarcely rule anything out, including perpetual torture devices; a worry always in the back of my mind-- as, again, nothing can be ruled out.
I'm not afraid of the singularity, but am afraid of deliberate malice.
My answer to your reply, lain, is: I just don't know. Not that you or Aubrey are mistaken; but for one thing until copies of one are made, the probability of a debilitating accident to the single being increases with time. Then too, there's no way of knowing what the quality of the substrate is going to be, environmentally. And what will the political situation be like 50 years from now? 75 years? no one has the slightest idea.
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