There’s a whole cluster of things—a recursively self-improving process? A runaway optimizer? A general intelligence? Brain emulation?
But yes to most of these things. It helps that I expect that in 60 years, when I am 80, medical technology will be effective enough to give me another 60 years.
But yes to most of these things. It helps that I expect that in 60 years, when I am 80, medical technology will be effective enough to give me another 60 years.
I remember thinking that 20 years ago. We don’t seem much closer. If you assume that you will be fantastically rich, then it sounds a little more plausible that you would get access to such care.
I remember thinking that 20 years ago. We don’t seem much closer.
Twenty years ago we didn’t have the Methuselah or SENS foundations; nor was antiagapic research considered viable for mainstream medicine. Today these things are.
There’s a whole cluster of things—a recursively self-improving process? A runaway optimizer? A general intelligence? Brain emulation?
But yes to most of these things. It helps that I expect that in 60 years, when I am 80, medical technology will be effective enough to give me another 60 years.
I remember thinking that 20 years ago. We don’t seem much closer. If you assume that you will be fantastically rich, then it sounds a little more plausible that you would get access to such care.
Twenty years ago we didn’t have the Methuselah or SENS foundations; nor was antiagapic research considered viable for mainstream medicine. Today these things are.