That’s never happened historically and aging treatments isn’t immortality, it’s just approximately a life expectancy of 10k years. Do you know who is richer than any CEO you name? Medicare. I bet they would like to stop paying all these medical bills, which would be the case if treated patients had the approximate morbidity rate of young adults.
You also need such treatments to be given at large scales to find and correct the edge cases. A rejuvenation treatment “beta tester” is exactly what it sounds, you will have a higher risk of death but get earlier access. Going to need a lot of beta testers.
The rational, data driven belief is that aging is treatable and that ASI systems with the cognitive capacity to take into account more variables than humans are mentally capable of could be built to systematically attack the problem. Doesn’t mean it will help anyone alive today, there are no guarantees. Because automated systems found whatever treatments are possible, automated systems can deliver the same treatments at low cost.
If you don’t think this is a reasonable conclusion, perhaps you could go into your reasoning. Arguments like you made above are unconvincing.
While it is true that certain esoteric treatments for aging like young blood transfusions are inherently limited in who can benefit, they don’t even work that well and de aged hemopoietic stem cells can be generated in automated laboratories and would be a real treatment everyone can benefit.
The wealthy are not powerful enough to “hoard” treatments, because Medicare et al represent the government, which has a monopoly on violence and incentives to not allow such hoarding.
The wealthy are not powerful enough to “hoard” treatments, because Medicare et al represent the government, which has a monopoly on violence and incentives to not allow such hoarding.
That’s naive. If a private has obedient ASI, they also have a monopoly on violence now. If labour has become superfluous, states have lost all incentive to care about the opinion of people.
I think worlds with the tools to treat most causes of human death ranks strictly higher than a world without those tools. In the same way that a world with running water ranks above worlds without it. Even today not everyone benefits from running water. If you could go back in time would you campaign against developing pipes and pumps because you believed only the rich would ever have running water? (Which was true for a period of time)
I would campaign against lead pipes and support the goths in destroying Rome which likely improved human futures over an alternative of widespread lead piping.
Running water doesn’t create the conditions to permanently disempower almost everyone, AGI does. What I’m talking about isn’t a situation in which initially only the rich benefit but then the tech gets cheaper and trickles down. It’s a permanent trap that destroys democracy and capitalism as we know them.
That’s never happened historically and aging treatments isn’t immortality, it’s just approximately a life expectancy of 10k years. Do you know who is richer than any CEO you name? Medicare. I bet they would like to stop paying all these medical bills, which would be the case if treated patients had the approximate morbidity rate of young adults.
You also need such treatments to be given at large scales to find and correct the edge cases. A rejuvenation treatment “beta tester” is exactly what it sounds, you will have a higher risk of death but get earlier access. Going to need a lot of beta testers.
The rational, data driven belief is that aging is treatable and that ASI systems with the cognitive capacity to take into account more variables than humans are mentally capable of could be built to systematically attack the problem. Doesn’t mean it will help anyone alive today, there are no guarantees. Because automated systems found whatever treatments are possible, automated systems can deliver the same treatments at low cost.
If you don’t think this is a reasonable conclusion, perhaps you could go into your reasoning. Arguments like you made above are unconvincing.
While it is true that certain esoteric treatments for aging like young blood transfusions are inherently limited in who can benefit, they don’t even work that well and de aged hemopoietic stem cells can be generated in automated laboratories and would be a real treatment everyone can benefit.
The wealthy are not powerful enough to “hoard” treatments, because Medicare et al represent the government, which has a monopoly on violence and incentives to not allow such hoarding.
That’s naive. If a private has obedient ASI, they also have a monopoly on violence now. If labour has become superfluous, states have lost all incentive to care about the opinion of people.
I think worlds with the tools to treat most causes of human death ranks strictly higher than a world without those tools. In the same way that a world with running water ranks above worlds without it. Even today not everyone benefits from running water. If you could go back in time would you campaign against developing pipes and pumps because you believed only the rich would ever have running water? (Which was true for a period of time)
I would campaign against lead pipes and support the goths in destroying Rome which likely improved human futures over an alternative of widespread lead piping.
Running water doesn’t create the conditions to permanently disempower almost everyone, AGI does. What I’m talking about isn’t a situation in which initially only the rich benefit but then the tech gets cheaper and trickles down. It’s a permanent trap that destroys democracy and capitalism as we know them.