“Living to 150 is definitely realistic,” said Lyu Qinghua, the chief technology officer of the company, which has developed anti-aging pills based on a compound found in grapeseed extract.
Critical support. Once research into longevity settles down, these can become standard treatments as part of universal healthcare. It will save money by (1) preventing the development of expensive age-related diseases, (2) allowing citizens to work and play longer, making back more of the state's investment into their childhood and education, and (3) preventing the loss of knowledge from death, the largest drain on our collective human knowledge.
Of course, we must be careful are eventually made available to all, not just to make wealthy capitalists immortal.
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somename [she/her] - 1mon
Yeah, there's certainly nothing wrong inherently with longevity research. Ways to slow ageing are good for everyone, in abstract. Living longer is good, and living while effectively "younger" is good too. A universal human urge.
I'm always a bit skeptical of miracle cure type proclamations, as there's a lot of rich people desperately wanting to avoid death, so they throw a bunch of money at stuff. But if one of these snake oil things ends up actually working, hey, I won't disparage it.
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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ - 1mon
That's why it's very good that this research is happening in China instead of the west.
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darkernations - 1mon
Of course, we must be careful are eventually made available to all, not just to make wealthy capitalists immortal.
Meths of Altered Carbon
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stink - 1mon
preventing the loss of knowledge from death, the largest drain on our collective human knowledge.
My Neuralink uploads my thoughts and memories every night to my own personalized LLM hosted on Grok's platform
The reality people in China are living in is quite different from the western hellscape.
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Lenin's Dumbbell - 1mon
To change it comrade
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freagle - 1mon
Not the seed oils!!!!
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huquad @lemmy.ml - 1mon
Oh, I'm not stupid, Lucius. No one lives forever. No one. But with advances in modern science, and my high level of income, I mean, it's not crazy to think I can't live to be 245, maybe 300. Heck, I just read in the newspaper that they put a pig heart in some guy from Russia. Do you know what that means?
yogthos in china
“Living to 150 is definitely realistic,” said Lyu Qinghua, the chief technology officer of the company, which has developed anti-aging pills based on a compound found in grapeseed extract.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/world/asia/china-aging-longevity-science.htmlhttps://archive.ph/z6Jfg
Critical support. Once research into longevity settles down, these can become standard treatments as part of universal healthcare. It will save money by (1) preventing the development of expensive age-related diseases, (2) allowing citizens to work and play longer, making back more of the state's investment into their childhood and education, and (3) preventing the loss of knowledge from death, the largest drain on our collective human knowledge.
Of course, we must be careful are eventually made available to all, not just to make wealthy capitalists immortal.
Yeah, there's certainly nothing wrong inherently with longevity research. Ways to slow ageing are good for everyone, in abstract. Living longer is good, and living while effectively "younger" is good too. A universal human urge.
I'm always a bit skeptical of miracle cure type proclamations, as there's a lot of rich people desperately wanting to avoid death, so they throw a bunch of money at stuff. But if one of these snake oil things ends up actually working, hey, I won't disparage it.
That's why it's very good that this research is happening in China instead of the west.
Meths of Altered Carbon
My Neuralink uploads my thoughts and memories every night to my own personalized LLM hosted on Grok's platform
Why would you want to live longer in this hellish reality https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/e79220ce-173b-4c35-9f13-d46b5a1b0655.png
The reality people in China are living in is quite different from the western hellscape.
To change it comrade
Not the seed oils!!!!
Oh, I'm not stupid, Lucius. No one lives forever. No one. But with advances in modern science, and my high level of income, I mean, it's not crazy to think I can't live to be 245, maybe 300. Heck, I just read in the newspaper that they put a pig heart in some guy from Russia. Do you know what that means?