[melling]

You are actually on topic!

Well, the bikeshedding part of the topic.

For some reason, any time we discuss extending human life, it quickly degenerates into an ethical question.

First, I wouldn’t worry about it because we spend more effort discussing ethics than actually trying to solve the problem. Basically, because the problem is so hard we bikeshed on ethics.

Second, it’s a very hard problem. It’s unlikely with the actual amount of effort, that we’ll be able to do much to extend life in the foreseeable future. We need to cure all the cancers, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, etc.

[D-Coder]

Most of these are mostly age-related. Reducing your body's age may reduce these problems a lot. So a completely different issue than you are addressing.

[magduf]

>We need to cure all the cancers, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, etc.

No, we really don't. Heart disease is mostly caused by lifestyle. And cancer and the aging process are two sides of the same coin: solve aging and you'll figure out cancer too. Alzheimer's is now appearing to be caused by a virus, so we'll probably have a vaccine for that before long.

[melling]

What about the people who seem to inherit Alzheimer’s?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03848-4

Plenty of young people get cancer. We also have childhood cancers.

Maybe you should include some references? We haven’t had one effective treatment for alzheimer’s in the past 20 years