Re:The X Prize is taking aim at aging with a new $101M award
by ben_w on Sunday December 03, 2023 @03:49PM
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This is just about age, not all forms of mortality. Even if you cured all diseases as well aging, humans would still have a roughly 50% chance of dying from accidents and homicides and suicides in any given 1000 year period… assuming current rates for homicides, suicides, and fatal accidents, which is a terrible assumption given how much they changed in the previous 1000 years.
> resources will become more scarce
No more so than the same total population aging normally. And as we're already below replacement rates in developed nations, no risk of that happening before some other radical change to the human condition (like mind uploading, WW3, Von Neumann probes on the positive side, or the consequences of existing consumption on the negative) gets in the way first.
Re:The X Prize is taking aim at aging with a new $101M award
by ben_w on Monday December 04, 2023 @05:22AM
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I've just realised I put WW3 in the positive list, thanks to not proof-reading correctly. And now the edit window has closed, I'm suck with that forever…
> resources will become more scarce
No more so than the same total population aging normally. And as we're already below replacement rates in developed nations, no risk of that happening before some other radical change to the human condition (like mind uploading, WW3, Von Neumann probes on the positive side, or the consequences of existing consumption on the negative) gets in the way first.