If in your lifetime it would be possible with science to make you biologically younger would you? How young would you choose to be?

[RyanEC]

There is this concept called the “longevity escape velocity” which will be a point in the future where we can extend lifespans more then time passing causes people to age.

This could include 3d printing artificial organs, gene editing, nano bots and rejuvenation therapy.

This could lead us to living longer (maybe centuries) and looking younger for longer.

AI could make this happen sooner maybe in the mid 2030s.

Would you be Interested.

[jshm2]

Nah, it's all a Theranos level scam. They are just being more clever about it, than she was.

If ever in doubt. Look back at the 50's and all those "beauty products" and how well those women held up since. They can get away with it because of the fine print that none of it is scientifically backed

[RyanEC]

Yeah but AI will accelerate scientific developments.

[handsomelad70]

Twenty with my 70-year-old's knowledge. ( I'd have said twenty-one, the legal U. S. drinking age, but I'm in Canada, where it's nineteen [eighteen in Quebec, our majority French-speaking province]. Besides, I never did much drinking even as a young man.)

[goaded]

I'd be OK with 30-40 forever.

[handsomelad70]

@goaded Thirty+forty=seventy.

[goaded]

Thirty-forty=-ten!

[RyanEC]

It may be possible.

Aubrey de Grey a leading scientist in this research thinks the first person to reach the age of 1000 was around 60 in 2004.

[handsomelad70]

@goaded That, too.

[Apple1996]

I'm not there yet but I'd probably choose to look 30-40 forever. In my 20s I've looked way to young. People mistake me for a teenager, sometimes even mistake me as my kids older sister 😓 so yeah anything old enough to look mature but not have signs of aging yet

[RyanEC]

I think I look younger as well people mistake me for early 20s.

I was even asked if I was still in high school recently and it made me feel young.

[TheSpaceGnome]

So you can already actually do this with diet alone (if you avoid/remove anything thats bad for you on top of that, and you haven't suffered a severe enough injury to prevent recovery).

I've done it, I now look like I did at 14, because at 14 I was finished developing and had no damage.

Its not like you can pick a specific look, you just fix your health and it defaults back to what you would look like if healthy.

"Aging" is entirely caused by illness/damage.

[TheSpaceGnome]

3D Printing organs is a great idea, we already know how to do that, but we don't because no one can afford it. Gene editing to allow lost body parts to regrow as well is a good idea, we aren't there yet though.

Nanobots would impede rejuvenation. not aid it, and it would kill the person over time

Humans already have indeterminate lifespans, meaning so long as you take care of yourself successfully, there is no limit to how long you can live, it is why our expected lifespan was 30 10,000 years ago, and is 100 now, its do to nothing but increased safety and less stress, if we removed all damaging things, we would never die.

[KostasKouvalis]

Yeah. I'd probably stay in my mid 20s forever

[strateguy632]

i actualy aged slower so no need for me. when i age to age 70 in 40 years i will rethink this

[DextroShade]

Yes, I would chose to stay at my mid 20s.