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Sam McRoberts — The Grand Redesign (EP.143)

Infinite Loops

Is There Any Incentive to Expand HealthSpan and Lifespan?

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Once you reach that tipping point where your advances in health span and lifespan start outpacing aging, maybe 10, 20, 30 years from now, technology is good enough that for every year we live, we add to at that point, it's effectively infinite. It'll be health span first, lifespan second. And of course, it's a dystopia because the mess, the Methuselins who achieved it first, they have all the money,. They have all of the power, they live in the clouds. Even something as cool as the idea of expanding healthspan and lifespan automatically the story gets told of a conflict. That technological pass is running in parallel with atomic and subatomic manufacturing

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