[melling]

Cure aging? We could relieve a lot of pain in the world by just curing cancer(s), or at least make them treatable like HIV.

Jake died yesterday. I don’t even think he was 40 years old.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41201555

Susan was only 56.

Let’s at least give everyone a chance at a full life.

[mewpmewp2]

Yeah, but magnitude wise it doesn't seem like a huge difference of 56 vs 90. 56 to me now looks way early, but I assume when I get 70 then I start to think that 90 looks way too early. When I was 10 years old, 56 seemed miles away though. So there's always going to be this problem. Especially since supposedly the older you get the faster time seems to go. So the fact that I and we are all going to die at some point not too far away is still something that is constantly in the back of the mind and frequently on the front.

E.g. compared to being able to live more than 1,000 years or forever and with body in its prime condition recovery etc wise. E.g. having a 25 year old body for 1,000+ years.

[melling]

Sure, I’m all for living to 1000. Curing cancer(s) likely needs to happen first. The war on cancer started in 1971.

We’d likely need trillions of dollars of investment, and a lot more people working on it, to increase our lifespan/healthspan.

But hey, we can hope together, for what that’s worth.