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Re:No limit to maximal lifespan in humans: how to beat a 122... by grishka on Thursday December 16, 2021 @11:53AM (#29580342)
So, exactly the opposite from me. Genes especially don't matter at all in an age when we have technologies like CRISPR to perform arbitrary edits on them. Different cultures come and go all the time throughout humanity's history. My own consciousness and personality though? As far as I'm concerned, to me, that's literally the most valuable thing in this universe.
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Re:No limit to maximal lifespan in humans: how to beat a 122... by nradov on Thursday December 16, 2021 @03:30PM (#29583460)
CRISPR applications are very limited so far. It's not a magic technology, and it certainly isn't useful for extending average lifespans.
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Re:No limit to maximal lifespan in humans: how to beat a 122... by grishka on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:29AM (#29588627)
It isn't useful for life extension for sure, but it does make any individual genome much less sacred.

And then we have technologies to synthesize arbitrary sequences of DNA. They can't create anything as long as an entire chromosome worth of DNA, but there's no reason why they won't be able to sometime in the future.

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