Scientists find way to wipe a cell's memory to reprogram it as a stem cell

Re:Scientists find way to wipe a cell's memory to reprogram ... by lelandbatey on Sunday August 27, 2023 @10:36PM (#37289049)

Living forever and living longer shouldn't be grouped together; living forever means unbounded existence and unbounded consumption over time. That's a fundamental paradigm shift for our entire system of being human.

Saving extending the lives of more children is unfortunately, a statistics change for our current world. Unlimited life means all models of economics, morality generally, class, etc will be affected.

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Re:Scientists find way to wipe a cell's memory to reprogram ... by Teever on Sunday August 27, 2023 @11:32PM (#37289398)

But no one is truely going to live forever. They'll die from disease or accident or murder.

Everyone dies man.

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Re:Scientists find way to wipe a cell's memory to reprogram ... by mjan22640 on Monday August 28, 2023 @05:45AM (#37291762)

Our cells live forever, despite the support "clumps" they create in the process eventually die off.

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Re:Scientists find way to wipe a cell's memory to reprogram ... by ben_w on Monday August 28, 2023 @06:30AM (#37292065)

> Unlimited life means all models of economics, morality generally, class, etc will be affected.

That's also going to happen with automation — and I don't just mean AI, as it has been happening continuously since the power loom led to Karl Marx inventing Communism, or possibly even earlier with the social and technological changes of Adam Smith's era and the end of feudalism.

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