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[–] hmonkey@lemy.lol 24 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

He should try just getting a blood boy like Gavin Belson did in Silicon Valley

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[–] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 16 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

It was kind of funny until he used his son's blood and "more recently, used “shock treatments” on his genitals in an apparent effort to reverse age his penis"

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[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I love how millionaires think they can cheat death, just because they have money.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 9 points 13 hours ago

Let them try. Maybe some of that money will go to researching something useful like cancer treatments.

[–] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

I do think that aging is something we can overcome. It'll take some exponential jumps in research/technology for it to happen in our lifetime though. What worries me is the ultra wealthy hoarding that discovery for themselves.

[–] vulture_god@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

This is actually the main plot in Orson Scott Card's "Worthing Saga", although I've seen the concept explored in Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth series and Richard Morgan's Takashi Kovacs novels.

It's a fascinating concept to think about, and frankly depressing because it feels uncomfortably close to the reality we're headed towards.

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

This is my concern too. Sure, I'm not a huge fan of the idea of myself dying someday, old and decrepit. But there are a ton of people out there about whom it gives me some relief to remember that they too will die. And most of them are the kind of people who whold have first access to anti-aging treatments.

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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 11 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

I hope that guy comes to terms with his mortality. I struggle with aging with every creature around me and myself.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 20 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I don't struggle with it at all, it happens all by itself without need of intervention

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago

It's very practical in that way.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 points 14 hours ago

I look forward to it (my own mortality) being a nice surprise.

Hopefully a very long time from now.

I'm the meantime, anyone want to buy my book on immortality? It has worked perfectly... So far.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

He looks ~400 years old.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Oops! It wasn’t “de-aging drug” it was “de (of) aging drug”

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

or lobster sauce

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 1 points 13 hours ago

That's a shame, rapamycin had a lot of promising studies.

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