Health itself is an inspiring concept at a technical level, because it is meaningful at many scales of organization at once: healthy cells, healthy organs, healthy people, healthy families, healthy communities, healthy businesses, healthy countries, and (dare I say) healthy civilizations all have certain features in common, to do with self-sustenance, harmony with others, and flexible but functional boundaries.
Healthcare in this general sense is highly relevant to machines. Conversely, sufficient tech to upload/backup/instantiate humans makes biology-specific healthcare (including life extension) mostly superfluous.
The key property of machines is initial advantage in scalability, which quickly makes anything human-specific tiny and easily ignorable in comparison, however you taxonomize the distinction. Humans persevere only if scalable machine sources of power (care to) lend us the benefits of their scale. Intent alignment for example would need to be able to harness a significant fraction of machine intent (rather than being centrally about human intent).
Healthcare in this general sense is highly relevant to machines. Conversely, sufficient tech to upload/backup/instantiate humans makes biology-specific healthcare (including life extension) mostly superfluous.
The key property of machines is initial advantage in scalability, which quickly makes anything human-specific tiny and easily ignorable in comparison, however you taxonomize the distinction. Humans persevere only if scalable machine sources of power (care to) lend us the benefits of their scale. Intent alignment for example would need to be able to harness a significant fraction of machine intent (rather than being centrally about human intent).