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minus-squareapex32@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 months agoYou are assuming that “immortality” means you stay fit and can continue working. Maybe in this scenario immortality just means you are alive and conscious, but you lose your mental sharpness and all you can do is lay in bed.
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.mindoki.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 months agoTrue, but the ongoing biotech revolution is aimed at repairing, so rejuvenation. Not just trying to just keep people alive like it is now.
minus-squareouRKaoS@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoIt’d be a slightly interesting dystopia once people figured out how to use a demented, bedridden brain to mine cryptocurrency…
You are assuming that “immortality” means you stay fit and can continue working.
Maybe in this scenario immortality just means you are alive and conscious, but you lose your mental sharpness and all you can do is lay in bed.
True, but the ongoing biotech revolution is aimed at repairing, so rejuvenation. Not just trying to just keep people alive like it is now.
It’d be a slightly interesting dystopia once people figured out how to use a demented, bedridden brain to mine cryptocurrency…