For most people I know, including my self, dieting sucks , exercising sucks. If you want to be around to see your 80th birthday, you’ve only got one hope, and it’s tech.
Take a look at the progression of obesity in the USA, I’ve got good company 
Aubrey de Grey on the Colbert Report! 4 minutes of great stuff
It’s interesting…When you bring up the subject of longer lifespans, peoples minds do what they so often do in a conversation, they search for novelty. After a few thousand conversations, you find that regardless of the subject, the person you’re speaking to wants to sound good, and be respected. Quite often in order to feel respected they look for a novel way to look at something, mention something you might not know about it, or talk about something else they know about that’s related. It’s a great way to show value I think. Sadly, whenever you talk about slowing aging, the most common near enevitable novel concept they arrive at is: “Why it’s bad” and if you get past that you get to “Why it can’t happen.” You rarely get to the hows because the why’s are insurrmountable. It’s more important for the other participant of the conversation to appear novel, above all else.
The next time you’re in a conversation with someone, watch where the exchange gets taken, and count the number of times you or the person you’re speaking to tries to rack up “novelty” points.
Folks that have talked among friends and acquaintances enough have well memorized the novel ideas people come up with when first exposed to slowing aging as a good idea. They’ve even named some of them. I’ll talk about this one, “the Tithonus error.” In short, there was a greek god who punished a man with eternal life, but didn’t slow down his aging, so he lived on a very very long time in a very very poor condition wishing for death. The good news is, longevicists have little desire to prolong agony, and the abiltiy to create such prolonged agony as far as anti aging interventions go, is much much harder than it is to keep young people young.
Here’s an example of a person living one of these “novel” ideas of being kept alive against her will. This is an example of what you get from NOT achieving goals in the slowing of aging. To support aging is to support this: New York times
I’ll spend the time to show the other common novel and erroneous ideas I hear, like “boredom” in the future.
If you want a very in depth explantion of the “Tithonus error” go to Longevity Meme or shorter at Fight Aging
http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com
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Here is a link to an article written today, titled: Extension Technologies To Facilitate Elite Technocracy /
Malthusian rulers’ obsession with eugenics and population control to render humanity obsolete, say leading scientific pioneers. Infowars
It’s hard to decide whether this article is good for general awareness of possiblity of life extension, or bad because it ties life extension to enslavement/eliteism… You make the call.
If you know the people at the forefront of the llife extension movement, you’ll find a pretty serious lack of “elite.” At the SENS3 conference, no one had personal security, no one showed up in an exotic sports car, and there was no hint of talks for world domination in the pub.
100,000 people died from age yesterday. For many of them, the things we valued most in them died before their bodies did. I’d say once your mind is gone, there’s not too much too stick around for.
More do, less talk.
See the Ted Talk
We get good at what we focus on, and we love to focus on what we can see. A very long time ago in middle school I think, we all had to build a little model of a cell, 1 plant, 1 animal. It was a great exercise to learn about the cell. Funny enough, my cell only had 1 mitochondria that I can remember, and so until recently, I thought cells only had 1 mitchondria (power plant).
Until I read “Ending Aging” by Aubrey de Grey anyway. Turns out there’s thousands of them, in each cell, I believe some more than others…Why does it matter?
Human progress in any area is a function of a few things. The number of people trying ideas on for size, the creativity, tenactiy, and intelligence of the people focused in that direction, and there’s always those mistakes, many many great things come about accidently, (and most often accidents occuring while experimenting.)
Technology that gives us the ability to “see” what’s really happening in the cell gives more people “hooks” for their minds to grab on to, so that more people can try better ideas, in a world they never even really visualized moving before. (Have you ever seen the insides of a cell doing their work before?)
And with that added layer of movement, and interaction, it becomes much much easier for the layman and the hobbyist to become professional. Innovations like these that offer a paradigm shift in understanding a system vastly improve creativity in the field. I know that as this technology comes along, I will be very interested to see videos alongside descriptions for when a cell is doing something properly, and when something has gone wrong, and how it functionally affects the cell’s mission.
Mechanical engineers have had the benefit of CAD “computer aided design” for many years now, it’s pretty amazing to see the beginnings of CAV “computer aided visualization.” The presenter says that we’ve only got a good grasp on maybe 1 percent of what’s really going on inside the cell, (as though there were only one ), One day we’ll be at 99 percent, and we’ll be designing instead of just understanding.
We all get good at what we focus on. The easier and more enjoyable a topic is to think about, the longer, harder, and more creative we’ll be in that area. People are doing cold fusion in their garages (yes, I’m serious: http://lenr-canr.org/Experiments.htm) How many people are doing work to improve the human machine in their garage? Body builders everywhere are raising their hands.
The animated, accurate representation of what’s really going on in the most complicated machines we know of is a huge step in the right direction. Animation is power.
