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.

Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Hoping real hard that Alternate Carbon is not becoming reality.

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  • NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I see that you too have heard the prophecy.

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• Vieric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Don’t worry, going by past history this will be available to any and…uhh, checks notes oh, uh-oh.

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Oh at this point it seems like we’re treating dystopian science fiction as a guidebook instead of a warning.

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Someone’s getting hangry and needs a Soylent.

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      • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Hold on, what color Soylent are we talking about? Is it the delicious, definitely only plants, green flavor?

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    • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech

      Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus

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• TheFriar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Let the death of Saburo Arasaka be a lesson to us all: even 150+ year old bastards can get choked the fuck out

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• assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  On the plus side an immortal ruling class might actually start caring about climate change.

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sure, in the most dystopian way possible.

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    … and reduce emissions by wasting the rest. But due to negative selection leading into that upper class they won’t be able to manage the planet further despite thinking that they can and will die of hunger eventually.

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• realitista@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Is a forever expanding population of old people much better?

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If they’re functional, and we get serious about space or birth control, then no it’s not a problem. But that is another path we can take to really juice the dystopia.

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    • realitista@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It will take a very long time indeed before we can reach another habitable planet enough to alleviate an exponentially growing population, and forced birth control will be unpopular, not to mention probably Malthusian.

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      • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        There’s always orbital habitats. They ramp up a lot quicker than even a Mars colony.

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• desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  this might finally be a way to eliminate insurance companies

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So we get Universal healthcare then, right?

    right?

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    • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      no

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