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Why are there no large-scale, well-funded efforts to significantly remediate the biological ageing process through scientific and technological means?
There seem to only be a handful of small charities with a few researchers and annual budgets in the low single digit millions of dollars; and a few researchers at a smattering of universities.
It doesn't seem to be considered a very big deal; why is this, given that everyone in the world will suffer as a result of ageing - and the intensity of the suffering is usually quite severe - and there seems to be no in-principle reason why we could not do an awful lot more to significantly reduce - or even prevent - that suffering?
In particular, why are there not even any eccentric billionaires pumping serious money into this? It would be one thing for this to not be an issue that governments and their associated research institutes took seriously; but the fact that very few private citizens with considerable resources seem interested is particularly strange.
What gives?
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>>8508439
Because most useful research gets patented and you don't hear about it for decades
i.e. the technology behind touchscreen was known since the 1960s but only got mass commercialised once smartphones took off in 2008
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Anyone else?
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>>8508439
For one thing, it would probably destroy our entire ecosystem. Sure, it could lie developed but hidden for a few decades like >>8508448
says, but even if at first it is only available to the rich, it is such a breakthrough that I'd wager many would do anything they can to scrounge money together to afford the therapy/treatment/procedure/whatever it would be, especially when you rationalize that a longer lifespan will mean more time to make it back. Plus, like most technology, as it is further developed and streamlined it will only become more accessible.
So now our still-rising population is augmented with a lowering mortality rate, which means a substantial rise not only in food and other resources consumables, but also a decrease in available livable space.
tl;dr it sounds appealing, but would probably kill the human race.
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>>8508439
There are just not for you because you are not a wealthy child of lucifer.
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Herein lies similar issues if one was to have a drug that could increase memory, libido, and intelligence.
The existing structures would fall apart and many new issues would arise.
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