Jason Sussberg and David Alvarado | Long for This World — documentary teaser trailer
August 28, 2012
Trailer of a documentary about the science and philosophy of the longevity movement, and the scientists making science fiction a reality. The film is by Jason Sussberg and David Alvarado.
Video Source: Jason Sussberg and David Alvarado
Comments (11)
by GatorALLin
Thought Bills comments on calorie restricted diet news/updates was well done. Check out his paper here…
http://www.resveratrolnews.com/calorie-restriction-doesdoesnt-prolong-human-life/627/#more-627
by DeBee Corley
We can slow this down. Put NASA in charge.
by Bri
There will be some major disruptions to society as we enter the singularity. Hopefully the group mind will sort it all out. One of the reasons it’s better to understand and tolerate the differences today. It lays a better foundation for AI to grow into.
by Bob Vasquez
Well, now that I am going to live longer, I had better pull myself up by my bootstraps (now that I own a pair of boots) and find a job. It’s going to be interesting with everyone living longer (or, will it just be those who are well connected?); anyway, if people live longer without Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other social net programs it will be perfect world; just oligarchs and slaves. Just kidding, don’t get all excited and don’t be so sensitive.
by Gorden Russell
You sound like a young man, Bob Vasquez. Yes, it’s going to be one long hard slog through the next two decades to get to the singularity. There will be a great social crisis from the mass unemployment caused by cheap robots. Unemployment benefits can’t be allowed to run out after 26 weeks. When a robot takes a job, that job is gone forever. These robots will have to start paying the unemployment taxes that the workers used to pay. The owners of the robots will fight this tooth and nail, but it is the only way to get society through the difficult times to come. The robots will have to support the people they put out of work or there will be vast mobs of homeless unemployed people crowding the streets. The only things that will keep them from burning the mansions of the 1% will be a negative income tax and public housing and medicaid and foodstamps. Without a social safety net, society will crumble and humanity will enter a new dark age. That will be the end of all our great hopes for the singularity.
by GatorALLin
interesting article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/sunday-review/how-long-do-you-want-to-live.html?_r=1
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21402069
http://www.longevinex.com/articles/
by Bri
GatorALLin I want to nick name you Mr pulvinar! Your always directing attention to interesting related articles! LOL!
by Bri
GatorALLin I guess we’re in the 1%. we may not own most of everything, but at least we can dream!
by GatorALLin
Love this topic….. I of course I will live forever (so far..so good….LOL).
Not so sure about the assumption that if you happen to be alive when they discover how to live 1 extra day…during that 24 hour period, that you get to live forever… as that assumes they can reverse the effects of aging. Big difference of extending lifespan vs. extending the quality of life, or reverse the negative effects of aging.
I honestly don’t get any of the negative push back they always claim is out there.. Regardless the good news is those grumpy old folks get to die off and thus…your problem is fixed as you go!. I guess religion wants to fight these theories as it may be harder to sell tickets into heaven if you can create your own heaven here, or if fear is what religion is selling so well. Or that you pick up some god status when you can better control your own mortality. Yeah, organized religion should be afraid of this idea for sure. Makes me wonder on the effort to stop funding for stem cell research if that is not religion driven for all of these reasons.
It sure does seem a waste that by the time you get old enough to really enjoy life (have your home/assets paid off and also finally understand how the world really works) that you get old and die off, maybe after working till 65-70. I have zero concerns of over population, etc.. We need the older minds working on global problems vs. just getting dementia or getting sick in nursing homes.
I just heard an idea for the first time that what if 100% of all human behavior is motivated by the fear of mortality (at least all anxiety is based on fear of death)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_management_theory so that problem is the least of our concerns, but here we are talking about death and all the extra problems that process makes. Sure would be a cool problem if they could fix it… all I can say is hurry up…..I wasn’t born yesterday!
by melajara
Then comes this problem, who will inherit the Earth?
The first “emmortals” (death escapers, as true immortality would imply invulnerability to fatal accidents) will tend to preserve and enhance even further their grip on human affairs control, denying their share of the pie to younger generations.
This has been brilliantly theorized by SF authors like Stableford (emmortality cycle) or Sterling (Holly fire).
In the long run the younger people will have to be bold enough to conquer an other “Lebensraum”, e.g. leaving Earth.
by Gorden Russell
Fuhgeddaboutit! By the time the population gets up to 10 billion, people will be able to move out into the solar system. Remember those visionary billionaire asteroid miners of Planetary Resources? They will be turning more and more asteroids into more and more mining ships and self-reproducing robots. Just highlight the words “von Neumann machine” and Google your way to Wikipedia. We only need to get people out to near earth orbit. That could be done with railguns or space elevators (you can Wiki those too). Once in NEO, there will be plenty of interplanetary ships built and fueled from asteroids to move people all over the system.
After that, metals, rock, and carbon from the main asteroid belt can be used to build starships. Sure, they will have to be dozens of miles across and hundreds of miles long, but there is a lot of metal and carbon up in the main belt.
A fusion-powered charged particle accelerator providing one-gee of thrust can push a starship up near to the speed of light in a little over a year. You can figure this out for yourself by plugging the speed of light into the formula for the acceleration of a falling object. Remember what Einstein said, there are no special frames of reference. Falling for a year gets you up to the same speed as accelerating for a year.
Also remember that other thing that Einstein said. Once you are up near the speed of light you experience time dilation. Time for you will be much slower than the time people are experiencing back on earth. Sure, I have said this in other places before, but don’t accuse me of plagiarizing myself. I’m going to keep repeating this everywhere I can think of so that more people will hear about it. We can go to the stars.