I used to think that age equated to percentage of life lived, thus I thought that most people live to close around 100.
But it also made me think that people only get old when they’re like 80.
I mean like actually “old”. The “old” adults were referring to. At that age I considered those 14/15 year old 9th graders old, just a bit different “old”.
I genuinely don’t get how people delude themselves into thinking aging is perfectly fine, we’ve always known it’s a terrible process and we’ve sought to defeat it for thousands of years. It’s also wild to me that we aren’t putting a truly stupid amount of money towards that goal either, emperors used to understand that finding the cure to it was worth literally everything. Yet here we finally are with the ability to meaningfully and exponentially progress our knowledge and we aren’t devoting our entire society to it.
I mean, our owner class is sinking stupid amounts of money into it.
https://www.lifeextension.com/magazine/2015/10/billionaire-philanthropists-funding-anti-aging-research
https://www.businessinsider.com/richest-wealthiest-entrepreneurs-ceo-billionaires-tech-searching-hacking-longevity
Though I promise you that is one product, whether it’s a drug that costs pennies to manufacturer, or clone replacement body/organ vats, that they won’t allow to fall into the reach of the bottom 99% of us mortals.
Is there anyone who doesn’t see people like Zuck, Musk, and Bezos as hardcore wannabe gods?