Comment on This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates.

ashok36@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  means people like trump and Musk are with us forever.

  But that would also mean their polar opposites would also be with us forever, the objectively best of us

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  • davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They won’t be able to afford it.

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• 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Maybe the procedure would fix whatever’s wrong with their brains. Like, maybe Trump would slowly regain the ability to form complete sentences. I’m imagining a Flowers for Algernon situation where he wakes up one day, reads his own Wikipedia page, and is briefly ashamed before the non-neural parts of his body crap out.

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