"I can't believe we strapped a monkey to an ICBM but STILL can't play literal God! This is an outrage!" For fuck's sake, the passage of time exists. Why is "stop aging" a concept to you at all? People time expire and die, get over it.
I read a book about the Japanese people who live to extremely old ages (it was about a village that has many very old people in Japan/the world in it) and basically they don't use any fancy medical shit to do it (I'm sure they get doctors checkups and take vitamins and medications as directed). They just keep active after retiring, they grow their own vegetables and keep busy, they stay in a community/support network with friends and socialize often and their meals aren't some Soylent type shit but instead highly varied with like 5-8 different each time with things like a small plate of tuna, a small plate of rice, a small plate of cabbage etc (and whatever other stuff they eat in Japan). The vegetables they eat are grown by themselves and people in their neighborhood.
You could use that excuse for everything though. Why not just go be Amish if you're against people striving to fix issues that have plagued humans since the beginning of time?
At the risk of sounding like a reddit commie, I think people sometimes extend a bit too much benefit of the doubt to the rich. My personal litmus test is that whatever questionable thing some rich dude is doing, I ask myself, "how would I feel about this if a janitor at Wal-Mart was doing this?"
The main reason for Japan’s high population of elderly people is because Nip families don’t report their grandparents dying so they can continue to collect retirement checks because their economy is a kafkaesque nightmare.
I've heard that theory as well but when you look at them their diet is reasonably healthy and they don't have obesity like other countries do. So I'm not sure how much of it is due to fraud vs them actually living longer.
I don't think time itself is one such issue. It's just a fact. "Stopping aging" is just a retarded idea. "Increasing health" is a great idea, but you need to think a little longer about what "make cells immortal" actually means and why that's both impossible and completely insane in practice. Really, how does the universe work if you flip a switch marked "everything never dies"? I'd almost say that the pursuit of immortality is in fact anti-life in both the ideological and literal/functional sense. Bryan Johnson certainly is alive, but is he living? But seriously, "we need to discover a cure for getting a year older at the end of every year" is what a five year old says.
I'm personally not interested in living forever, I'm interested in stopping aging. Just because you figure out a way to stop aging doesn't mean you're impervious to death.
I think slowing or "buffering" certain decay processes is a good thing. If you think about it: cell regeneration and somehow "fortifying" your "active" genetic code is where it's at. If people figure out how to fight cancer on that level, for one example, that's cool. Brian certainly isn't living and unhealthily obsessed tho. I do think people actually becoming sort of vitrified and outliving their kids or never having them, is a dead end, quite literally. But just maxing out your healthy adult phase and postponing the state of geriatric wasting could be useful. But what will happen short term is that that senile billionaires will dope themselves with exotic and expensive treatments, cementing the gerontocracy we are struggling with already.
Yeah, Okinawa has been surveyed for this phenomenon by actual scientists, I think.
I just want people to be able to live their life free of pain and decay. Instead of things slowly declining in your mid 20s, it would be nice if you continued living with your body working efficiently the entire time you're alive.
Tbh Bryan has always read to me as someone swapped one obsession (Mormonism) with another (Longevity). He also acts literally autistic at times.
But are they decaying? In a way that matters? Drowning yourself in lotions and snake oil isn't healthy when they then shotgun coffee at 5pm and alcohol twice a week while spending 6 hours a day on they phone. Nor do they actually pursue things that require or stimulate health. What good is being at peak health when you then work yourself to death cause you've got no hobbies, kids or non-instagramable activities.
What do I care how people choose to live? There will always be lazy people and people who do nothing but suck up oxygen. Even back before technological advances, you still had people that didn't want to do anything meaningful, that won't change no matter how far along our species evolves.
Dr. Butt before the invention of the toilet:
I think the fact that a "cure" for the first law of thermodynamics can't exist, might be a clue that your examples are false analogies. Telomeres shorten, seasons change, God gave you a lifetime and you're telling him it's a disease? RUDE
How exactly do clams/lobsters/etc not aging violate the conservation of energy? (Or are humans thermodynamically special in a way that clams are not?) And my examples are all things that have already happened as a result of human effort, and are all violations of the natural status quo. How are they false analogies?
