And with regard to life extension, people in this sub seem to think that “discovery” will automatically lead to “access”

People in the US are still routinely bankrupted for extremely basic access to healthcare but people in this thread seem to think they’ll somehow have access to the most highly coveted form of life extension in human history?

As if.

It’ll cost hundreds of millions of dollars and none of us have even the slightest hope of accessing it when it is discovered. Access is likely to be politically suppressed as well due to fears of overpopulation.

So the real barrier to life extension for all of us is actually political change, not scientific discovery.

Discovery might happen this century.

Access? In a harsh unequal economic system that treats healthcare like a for-profit cash cow? I think we need an anti capitalist political revolution to even have a slim chance of socialising life extension

A revolution like that has been fought for hundreds of years already and arguably since the advent of mass surveillance we have an even less surmountable asymmetric power struggle in front of us than ever before.

Frankly I think we probably have already missed our best chance at achieving that a few decades ago