adfaer t1_j9i33c8 wrote on February 22, 2023 at 3:05 AM

Amazing! I think life extension is coming sooner than people think. I hope it comes in time for my parents to take advantage of it, too.

Will people please stop the billionaire circlejerk, no medicine has ever been available only to billionaires. Altered Carbon is not a documentary.

arevealingrainbow t1_j9i3lon wrote on February 22, 2023 at 3:09 AM

I think the knee jerk resistance about “muh Billionaires” to any progress in reversing aging is just people’s deathism defense mechanisms kicking in.

LibertarianAtheist_ t1_j9j7739 wrote on February 22, 2023 at 10:29 AM

Coupled with their left wing bias.

For example on dailyfail's comments conservatives were commenting "playing god! we're meant to die".

Pro aging trance expressed using their feeble political views.

KnightOfNothing t1_j9kfy0n wrote on February 22, 2023 at 5:11 PM

very interesting. I always wondered about the hostility towards the quest to defeat aging and thought it was always just the crab mentality of people too afraid to take it but also afraid of being the only aging person in their social circles.

guess this reasoning is more rooted in reality.

First-Translator966 t1_j9jczpq wrote on February 22, 2023 at 11:42 AM

Unfortunately, I fear my parents (70’s) are too old. I’m probably borderline to reach escape velocity. I just hope my kids will be able to get me at a high energy/reasonably healthy state through their parenthood period.

EBJLEnjoyer t1_j9l7v67 wrote on February 22, 2023 at 8:01 PM

>Amazing! I think life extension is coming sooner than people think. I hope it comes in time for my parents to take advantage of it, too.

Me too!

>Will people please stop the billionaire circlejerk, no medicine has ever been available only to billionaires. Altered Carbon is not a documentary

People have to realize that billionaires are businessmen first and foremost. Businessmen want to make money more than anything else, and an anti-aging drug would absolutely make them trillionaires.