Gadgetoff 2007 - Aubrey de Grey

Growing old is something that Aubrey is trying to do away with. Here he touches on the philosophical and cultural impediments to focusing on and halting aging.

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[gucker07]

De Grey rocks! I want to live for millenia, not decades.

[callumbus]

hes a legend

[Myflesh101]

@gucker07 Yeah I'm with Ya man, at least have the option. De Grey IS amazing

[CalumnMcAulay]

powerful presentation!

[BananaSandwich1]

as long as you stay young though! can it happen in our lifetime??

[cpretartedmuch]

there are other methods of keeping a good population besides letting people die off. Im getting sick of telling people this...

[cpretartedmuch]

I want to live as long as possible, and stay biologically young aswell.

and about the population thing that ive picked up reading through these posts, if you'd look up the reason our population is growing so fast is cause of poverty, not because life expectancy is going up. these nations with the highest birth rates often have the lowest life expectancies while the highest life expectancies tend to have lowest birth rates.

overpopulation is not a valid reason why we shouldn't end aging.

[Ilamarea]

In the worst case scenario, if we will not age, would be, not allowing everybody to become immortal. SImple as that. It's not like every body diservs it, only worthy blah blah blah.

Or just 3rd WW. It will solve all the problems, meaby even the greatest one, humanity itself!

[oddjobmj]

These are some of the ridiculous things we use to try to convince ourselves aging is a good thing.

Look at the explosive growth of population in the early US. This growth has tapered off as it will in other countries as they develop.

Furthermore, other fields in science will continue to progress just like 'gero' science. These technologies, as they generally address global issues, will help expand the Earth's ability to harbor what will eventually be a slowly growing population.

[curingaging00]

there are 380,000 babies born everyday.

if we add the cure to aging the population would rise around 30% faster. thats if every1 took it

future technologies will allow us to accomadate more humans. advances in agriculture cities, skyrises and eventually accologies.

besides the birth rates are going down and scientists expect the population will stop climbing at around 9-10 billion by 2100 or 2150

[northanortha]

Overpopulation is not a valid reason not to defeat aging. A world where aging exists is the worse case scenario. Right now population is limited by a horrific method: involuntary death. The worst alternative, forced birth control, is less horrific that the current method of population control(crippling to death).

[northanortha]

Impertinence. This now is the armageddon scenario. Aging is the moral equivilant of an approaching meteor.

Right now we limit population by people dying at 75. This is _less_ humane than the alternative: Limiting population by limiting birth.