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by nynx 2123 days ago
You're getting some downvotes, but I actually agree with this. The next ten or twenty years are going to be the most exciting so far, and then it only goes up from there.
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How long time do you think it's realistic that we reach longevity escape velocity? And what current longevity research do you think is the most promising?
Probably about 20 years, just try to hold on until then.
Did people say that 20 years ago?
Yes we did. I was on transhumanist mailing lists twenty years ago and the exact same comments were being made then as are in this thread today
Lol. I seem to recall seeing a comic strip once, where a young, a middle-aged, and an old man were asked when anti-aging treatments would arrive. Their answers were respectively: fifty years, ten years–and this afternoon!
Same situation like with nuclear fusion, I guess.
I have no idea, I'm not a scientist, I'm just a transhumanist.