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Re:Ray Kurzweil: AI is still on course to outpace human inte... by goatlover on Monday January 21, 2019 @06:48PM (#18964741)
> it doesn't mean anything if they don't finance solving the problem of dieing.

There's no solution to death. You can only put it off, but something will assuredly kill you in time. If it's not aging, then it will be cancer, heart disease, an accident, etc. Ultimately, entropy will get you one way or another.

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Re:Ray Kurzweil: AI is still on course to outpace human inte... by xiphias2 on Monday January 21, 2019 @07:07PM (#18964842)
Personally I didn't do a lot of fun stuff (like riding motorcycle, extreme sports) to decrease probability of an accident, even though I'd love to (I'd tried them, loved doing them, but not doing them regurarly).

As for cancer and heart disease, both are linked to aging or genetically inherited mutatations. Heart disease is a natural result of damages in the human body not being reversed.

https://www.cell.com/fulltext/S0092-8674(00)80567-X

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