If humanity is on the verge of curing aging and achieving radically extended lifespans, then future societies might have extremely low birth rates — especially if interstellar travel turns out to be impossible. Under those conditions, most people who will ever exist would have been born before aging was solved. That implies the period we live in now — right before these breakthroughs — is a kind of “peak” in the number of new people being born. From an anthropic perspective, it’s no surprise that we find ourselves alive during this transitional era rather than in some far-future utopia with stable immortality and very few new births. In short, if most of humanity’s future is spent in a world where people rarely die and hardly anyone new is born, then being alive right now is exactly what we’d statistically expect.

Nigger we can't even cure balding, what makes you think we are about to cure ageing?

>>16707615
True — both aging and balding seem insurmountable to humans right now, but that’s the key limitation: human-level intelligence. Once we have AGI or ASI able to model biology at the molecular and systems level — designing interventions faster and more precisely than any human team — problems that look impossible today could be cracked surprisingly quickly.

>>16707617
Thank you for demonstrating why people dying and other people being born is important so articles of faith stop having sway after a period of time.

>>16707593 (OP)
your message is cromulent yet conveys no point

>>16707615
balding is cured, you just can't afford it

>>16707593 (OP)
Refuted by open individualism

>>16707642
It's cool to talk about at least

>>16707615
Nothing happens, until everything happens at once. We are on track to cure Type I Diabetes, Type II Diabetes, HIV, Breat Cancer, and many more diseases and sicknesses, all within the next three or so years. It took us decades to get here, but thanks to gene therapy and all sorts of new and improved methods we are about to experience a medical revolution unlike anything seen in generations. If we can cure all of these things, we can cure balding.

Trust the plan, Anon.