If you can do that, just maybe... Just the slightest maybe, there could be life for the masses.
But you can't do it alone. You need people who understand and accept the need to do it.
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If you can do that, just maybe... Just the slightest maybe, there could be life for the masses.
But you can't do it alone. You need people who understand and accept the need to do it.
My real point is that billionaires actually have a pathetic shot at immortality. Death evolved early, and it is so advantageous to species by enabling evolution to quickly respond to changing environments that there are literally dozens of mechanisms that senesce and limit lifespans. Not one of the billionaires I am aware of actually researches themselves in this field. I'm sure all of them do what Epstein did, and throw money at researchers in the hope they'll get some edge in life extension first that they can capitalize on.
Peter Thiel famously buys young blood and transfuses it, and I'm sure many billionaires do the same. But that also shows that even the most alarming technology they employ to extend their lives isn't covert. Their employees doing the research will not enable them to hoard any development that they can use to extend their lives, or none of us would know of the macabre practice of parasitizing youthful blood, because it's so alarming and strongly suggests they're comparable to vampires or Elizabeth Bathory, willing to stoop to any unethical mechanism in the pursuit of youth and longer life.
If significant advance occurs in gerontology, we'll all know it almost immediately. No silver bullet is potential, like a vaccine, because of the complexity of the mechanisms causing senescence.
The first 3D printed spaceship just launched in March. There are few technologies advancing as fast and dispersing as widely as 3D printing. I predict it will be decades, at most, before individual households can print their own spaceships in their own garages. Once we can do that, and use aquaponics to sustain ourselves in any environment, and use the wide variety of means of producing power, there just isn't a way for overlords to oppress us.
Illimitable resources are just waiting for us in space, where no armies can follow, and no overlord project force. We will create inconceivable wealth in absolute freedom, and nothing can stop us. The laws of physics determine what technology can exist, and decentralization of the means of production are the cutting edge of technological advance because that's what the laws of physics mandate. Even if we are bombed back into the Stone Age, we'll just get here again.
I don't need to make people understand all this. I need to understand all this in order to enable my sons to make it happen, but there will be people that make it happen whether it's my sons or not. When it happens, we will begin a diaspora across the universe that will disperse people, isolate them, and diminish their ability to enjoy the blessings of civil society. Nothing will be more valuable going forward than good company, and it will only grow more valuable going forward.
I hope that is something we can all benefit from on Hive, despite the focus on tokens and financial manipulation we see ongoing. I consider money and tokens of negligible value, and seek to use goodwill, to employ goodwill as an economic mechanism, because that reflects the true value of society, and goodwill is the most valuable thing in the universe. You're absolutely right I can't do it alone, and I can't hoard it. Goodwill only grows when you give it away.
I do agree with the billionaires having a shot at immortality and we can see scientists who are crazy enough to continually find a cure to end mortal life and begin another race.
But, the scientists only need a rat to carry on the operation. They won't give out the cure to these pathetic people when the cure Is found.
Technology is indeed running a race and all we have to do is to learn not only to be a fast runner but also human.
The word "Stone Age" reminds me of Senku. He is the main character in the Anime I saw last year titled, Dr. Stone. I do believe humanity will learn to improve and move forward through advancing themselves if we are all hit by the wave of the Stone Age.
I do understand your point on enabling your son and others who need to evolve. After all, we can't do it alone. Someone needs to continue the race when we fall which is where Goodwill comes in.