“The U.S. is more problematic because it is harder hit by a range of issues that kill people even before they hit old age, including drug overdoses, shootings, obesity and inequities that make it hard for some people to get sufficient medical care.”
“The U.S. is more problematic because it is harder hit by a range of issues that kill people even before they hit old age, including drug overdoses, shootings, obesity and inequities that make it hard for some people to get sufficient medical care.”
Poor Ray Kurzweil. He’ll be so disappointed at the moment before his death.
Im not familiar with him, but looking him up Im guessing youre mentioning him for promoting life extension research? Honestly Im not sure if what this article is talking about is even that relevant to that idea. Obviously you cant extend life indefinitely by merely trying to cure each type of common age related illness as it comes up, eventually the body is just too weak and easy to damage to keep it running. To actually extend life far beyond the current maximum you’d need to find a means to reverse the root cause of aging itself rather than just trying to patch the symptoms indefinitely
Kurzweil has been predicting human immortality via one type of technology or other for decades now. When one doesn’t pan out, he switches to another. As long as his “I’m going to be immortal” prediction is part of it.
He’s also made a lot of money selling “longevity” supplements. I’m not going to name the company to help him out. It’s easily found.
It’s ok he eats 1000 vitamins a day that has to count for something
Expensive pee is something I guess. most vitamins your body pees away any excess. The exctptions you need to be careful to not overdose on.
He’d agree that humanity is hitting a limit.
I’m talking about his whole thing about wanting to live forever.
Yeah but he doesn’t want to live forever as a human. He wants to get mind uploaded and become a post-human.
That’s his newest idea, yes. Although that doesn’t stop him from hawking supplement pills that he claims will make you live longer.
He was pitching that idea at least in the early 2000s.