>8th grade science teacher tells class we're likely the

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>>8854921
26 here, feel your pain OP. Don't lose hope, increase your chances by taking care of your body. And at the end of the day, at least you don't have to be Ray Kurzweil...

You should look upon death with curiosity, it's our only ticket out of this dimension.
No matter how far science advances, we will still be limited in our understanding of the world's true nature if we continue to live as we are.

>>8854921
Anon, there has actually been progress in anti-aging.

It has been proven reverse aging is possible, as it has occurred within tested mice who grew younger. Sadly they also got cancer.

Progress takes time and energy. Its a slow thing.

>>8854921
DUDE TELOMERASE LMAO

>>8854921
Relax. It's an 8th grade science teacher. Wild science predictions like that never turn out to be anything near true.

>>8855098
>Organs quit functioning
So curious

The non-popsci cuck version is that we're likely the first generation of people to die younger than our parents.

Immortality will never happen. Get over it.

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>>8858304
>the first generation of people to die younger than our parents.

I strongly disagree with this. Our parents were the height of the obese generation, younger people in first world countries are waaaaaaay more health conscious now.

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>>8858460

>Fat acceptance movements on the rise
>More health conscious

>>8858460
Our generation eats and eats and eats and eats and eats, they are going to die in their 40s.

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>>8858858
>>8858867
>Nutrition understanding on the rise
>Veganism on the rise
>Most vain and self-absorbed generation in human history currently in their 20s and teens

>>8858952
give me some proof for those 3 statements

>>8858858
Spend less time on the internet if you're starting to think that every social media crusade reflects a real influence on society.

>>8854921
Get to work on stasis chambers.
Finally build some at 66 years of age.
Encase yourself in the chamber.
Interact with the world through robots.
Become a Sage. Grow a massive beard while floating inside.
If no advances at age 88 freeze yourself and awaken 200 or so years later.
?????
Profit?

>>8858460
And this is why I do squats.

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>>8854921

Anti-Aging is one MILLION times harder than preventing baldness... do you see ANY "cure" for baldness... do you see old billionaires with THICK long hair.. NOPE!

You ARE going to die and MOST likely before 100.

>implying the singularity isn't going to hit in 2075

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>>8854921
>>still no big progress in anti-aging
Because the government monopolizes the medical industry in most countries in the world.

You may not like it but it's the reason.

There's no incentive to invest in anti aging technologies now thanks to government and the corporations that are protected by government.

>>8855543
I bet nanotech is how we're going to tackle all cancers simultaneously. Then we'll be able to extend life indefinitely with bioscience advances on top of it.

Coming up with tailor-made treatments for individual cancers will never be an effective way to stop it altogether.

>>8860515
>Then we'll be able to extend life indefinitely with bioscience advances on top of it.

The stuff they're doing with telomerase and all that, is what I meant. Although I'm sure nanotech can be used to help that along too.

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>>8854921
try 27 and tell me faggit
life is suffering if you can not live forever

>>8854921
Stop being such a pussy.

There have been far more important people living in far more difficult circumstances and they got shit done instead of whining about life on a Mongolian cave painting board.

Get your shit together and focus on science.

>>8856468
DUDE STARVE YOURSELF OLD LMAO

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>>8854921
>turned 24 a couple months ago
>still get asked what grade I'm in when I'm outside of a professional context
I am the best.

>>8854942
why were the greeks smarter than us?

Society today is literally the opposite of this, its a race to cut down all the trees before someone else gets to them first with zero thought about tomorrow and no shits given about future generations.

>>8861040
The Industrial Revolution is one of the main reasons for societies' declination.

>>8861025
I'm 27 and have gotten the same sort of treatment throughout my 20s. We must have the MC1R gene variant responsible for making some people appear younger.

>>8861025
>starve yourself old
this is legit you dimwit

>>8861025
quality boipucci

>>8854942
>A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in
>Basically: blah blah make the world a better place for your children
Obviously Americans wouldn't know anything about this, as they continue to mutilate their sons' penises because they're butthurt that theirs got mutilated too.

>>8860472
>Because the government monopolizes the medical industry in most countries in the world.
[citation needed]

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>>8854921

>he doesn't know he's in an MWI quantum suicide scenario only a few decades away from VR immortality

It's actually impossible for you TO die.

>>8861467
basically this. Its impossible to die.

>>8861494
Explain

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>>8860472
>in most countries in the world
Yeah, no.

In the USA, the collusion is done by private companies that lobby politicians to allow them to drive up costs. The cost of health care in America is actually the highest per capita of any nation on the planet because of this oligopoly by the nation's Big Pharma.

It's a part of the reason many nations around the world have socialized their health care: if your health, the base line of your freedom, is sold to you by a private company, then market forces will be allowed to act according to the people's demand for their own health. Such a demand does not fall, but you can cause it to rise. If a drug that you sell has a side effect that is treatable by another drug that you can sell them, why put in the effort to develop a better drug?

A good example of this is the company Pfizer, which sells the pain reliever Lyrica, which has a side effect of erectile dysfunction. This company is also the very same one that sells Viagra.

Now, you may blame your government for enabling such behavior, but in nations like the UK and Canada, government-owned health care has proven to be a much less corrupt system than its privately-owned counterpart. It may look to you like your government is monopolizing health care, but in the background, it's private companies that are paying them off so those same companies can hike up prices.

There are like ~300 researchers in the world actually working on anti-aging research (100 at calico and 200 at SENS and Buck institute).

How many researchers are working on cancer? Tens of thousands, and aging will probably ever harder to conquer than cancer.

Why do you expect progress to happen by itself? If you care about it, DO SOMETHING about it. Either donate money to research or become a researcher yourself.

>>8861025
>receeding hairline


Not gonna make it

>>8861040
Capitalism

That's it

This culture of unending consumerism has made us this way, couple that with surplus and the average human will live only for his own happiness, not the good he brings to the world.

>>8861025
rip hair

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>>8861576
My hair's been growing from back there since I noticed where where my hairline was, if not indefinitely. This is me at 15. You can see that forehead way up there.

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>>8854942
>>8854942
fixed your image for you

>>8861604

you looked like a faggot

>>8861025
except you're going to go from looking like a kid to looking like an old weird kid without ever looking like a man

>>8861647
he looks like a piggot. By the way, that's a pig mixed with a faggot. He oinks and oinks while he gets his boipucci pounded and porked

>>8861651
I'll just stop shaving.

>>8860313
This, so fucking this

>>8858290
But what if there's more to our existence. I'm no religious cuck, but you can't deny that maybe there's more to life than meaninglessness.

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>>8861654
Seek help.

>>8861025
22, same deal. A year or two ago I went to the dentist and they handed me a medical form for children. It was covered in colors and soccer balls and questions like:

>"What is your date of birth?"
>"What is your favorite color?"
>"Who is your insurance provider"
>"What's your favorite subject in school?"

>>8854921
>the one of the first

Your English teacher also failed you, anon

>>8861647
So does every other 15yo

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>>8861550
lmao this is fucking bullshit
Healthcare used to be insanely inexpensive in the 50s and 60s before the government monopolized it in the USA. Free market healthcare actually WORKED before the government fucked it over.

Prices naturally come down in a free market and healthcare should be no exception

>Big Pharma.
No shit. The FDA and big pharma work together to fuck over the consumer. If the FDA didn't exist and patents didn't exist(which they don't in a free market) then the price for drugs would be really cheap.

Guess which country currently has the best healthcare system?
Switzerland.
They have a PRIVATE system with some government involvement. Yes the government forces everyone by law to purchase PRIVATE health insurance. But it's really CHEAP and there are no waiting lines at all.

Actual socialized healthcare has long waiting lines and people suffer from lack of care(believe me I know, I'm Canadian)

The market is far better than the government.

>>8861597
I think you mean government.

Thanks to capitalism(or the mixed system we have today at least) we have the high life expectancy we have today.
Thanks fuck people have the freedom and the CAPITAL to do research like this.

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>>8861498

YOU are Schrodinger's Cat. Every time you "die", WE see it, you don't. In your timeline (which we don't share), you miraculously survive any "close calls" that may end your life.

Had this happen to me on two blatant occasions, when I was a kid (these are the two I know about, of course).
>should've been hit by a bus running a red light at a crosswalk (my dad yanked me back)
>tried to run across the street in a rainstorm, bounced off a sedan's car door after it swerved away at the last second

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide_and_immortality

>>8863160
How does this apply to people who die of old age?

>>8862308
Dumb piggot

You know that life expectancy in America is falling, right?

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>>8863023
What I'm saying is that socializing health care is an easier alternative in the current system in the US, where you get to pay premiums twice as high as in Canada AND wait a while to to see results. I'll give you that the wait times in the US aren't often comparable to the wait times in Canada, but then again, neither are those in England, which also has socialized health care.

The big difference between Switzerland and the US is the perception of money in politics. The US Congress just feels that they can do these things and score extra cash without any fear of the voters turning against them, even turning the funds over to their reelection campaigns, while the Swiss Federal Assembly does not. Money in politics in the US is such a mess that I honestly can't think of which thread to pull first.

A socialized health care system wouldn't fix the problems in the US, but it'd keep them from getting worse faster. When health care bleeds money from the Congressman, it'll be more in line with his interests to drive the cost down and to also have that cost buffer as a bargaining chip to pass at least a part of those savings to the people when he wants to run for reelection. It's a competitive system in the US government, so the other candidate will try to undercut him. Therein lies the capitalist incentive to drive down prices or to ramp up the quality of funding that goes to actual care workers instead of any CEOs.

>>8854921
If we are lucky we will die sooner

>>8863264
>What I'm saying is that socializing health care is an easier alternative in the current system in the US
It's not. That's absolutely insane.
The best system is to PRIVATIZE and deregulate healthcare in the united states so prices can come down dramatically.

Socialized healthcare in Canada and Europe has been shown to be a disaster with long waiting lines and lack of care.

Switzerland has the best system because it's privatized.

>neither are those in England
england has really long waiting lines too

>The US Congress just feels that they can do these things and score extra cash without any fear of the voters turning against them, even turning the funds over to their reelection campaigns, while the Swiss Federal Assembly does not.
Of course that's an important thing but it has little to do with healthcare.

The best system is a free market system. It would get money out of politics because there would be nothing for the politicians to sell.

Also with that graph. Swiss people MAKE much more money so they can pay for their system.

>>8854921
>he's not already immortal

C'mon m8!

>>8860698
>Mongolian cave painting board.

I laughed too hard at this