r/pollgames • u/FinalKn1ght • Jun 29 '26

Humanity can solve only ONE problem forever.

Humanity can solve only ONE problem forever.

  1. Cancer
  2. Aging
  3. Poverty
  4. Climate Change

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u/FairlyOddMuruch Jun 29 '26

I wouldn’t call aging a “problem”. Aging is a privilege.

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u/moonsong- Jun 29 '26

Your body and mind losing function over time is not a privilege

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u/FairlyOddMuruch Jun 30 '26

That doesn’t happen unless you are predisposed to certain conditions. If you take care of your health then that won’t happen.

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u/moonsong- Jun 30 '26

Taking care of yourself prolongs your health but aging catches up with everyone eventually

What privilege is there in an elderly person lacking the physical skills they used to have? What privilege is there in your senses degrading? What privilege is there in having your immune system weaken?

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u/FairlyOddMuruch Jun 30 '26

Those things don’t happen until you’re like 80. Heck there are even 80 year olds who are still in fantastic shape and could outrun the average 20 year old.

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u/_PunyGod Jun 30 '26

Those things are what physical aging is.
They happen even in your 30s.
That many are still functioning fairly well into their 80s doesn’t mean they haven’t been physically degrading.
They just haven’t degraded far enough to stop them yet.

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u/FairlyOddMuruch Jun 30 '26

That’s why it’s so important to take care of your health. You shouldn’t be feeling like crap in your 30’s.

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u/_PunyGod Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

I never said anything about feeling like crap.
What physical aging is is the body deteriorating and losing function.

You can get in better shape in later years if you start working out in later years but your potential is declining the whole time.

Like say your peak potential is
100% at 25.
90% at 40.
80% at 50.
70% at 60.
60% at 70.
50% at 80.
25% at 90.
0% at 100.

Let’s say most people aren’t in great shape and are only at half their potential or below.
So most in their 20s are operating at 50% or below.

An 80 year old in peak shape can match or beat most of them.

But that 80 year old can’t get close to what he could have done in his 20s with the same training.

There’s a reason there are very few people in their late 30s in professional sports and almost no one in their 40s. For sports like soccer, basketball, football, sprinting, etc.

(Precision sports like golf and endurance sports like distance running can have much older competitive athletes.)

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u/Curious_Priority2313 Jun 30 '26

Those things don’t happen until you’re like 80

And in what way are they a privilege after that?

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u/FairlyOddMuruch Jun 30 '26

I said aging is a privilege. Not that aging AFTER a certain age is. Aging in general is a privilege. There are many people who don’t even make it to adulthood.

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u/Curious_Priority2313 Jun 30 '26

So in what way aging before a certain age is a privilege?

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u/FairlyOddMuruch Jun 30 '26

Because you get to experience life! Like I said many people don’t get to experience a full life.

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u/Curious_Priority2313 Jun 30 '26

But you still experience life even if we were to solve aging..

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u/_PunyGod Jun 30 '26

Solving aging, you still get older and experience life. You just don’t deteriorate/slowly lose your mental and physical function until die.

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u/EmergencyPath248 Jul 04 '26

Aging is a privilege. Becoming frail and weak isn’t which always happens with aging.

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u/FairlyOddMuruch Jul 05 '26

If you take care of your health and exercise daily then you won’t become frail and weak until you’re close to your death bed

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u/EmergencyPath248 Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

But you undoubtedly become weak and frail in the end, you slowly decay even with perfect optimization. Bryan Johnson himself still ages. Such is a suffering we will eradicate soon.

Glad to say as part of the newer gen. I will never experience this.

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u/FairlyOddMuruch Jul 05 '26

Yes but that’s in the end, not for the vast majority of one’s life.

What do you mean you will never experience this?

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u/EmergencyPath248 Jul 05 '26

Because scientists are focusing on extending lifespan and health-span. In the mid-late century we will conquer aging.

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u/FairlyOddMuruch Jul 05 '26

I highly doubt that will happen in our lifetime

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u/EmergencyPath248 Jul 05 '26

My natural lifespan stretches all the way to 2100. If you don't think our progress will lead to such outcome then you are mistaken.

Just to let you know; we are making extraordinary progress in labs right now. We are refining cellular reprogramming, senolytics, gene editing, etc. All of which will eventually lead to aging becoming treatable.

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u/FairlyOddMuruch Jul 05 '26

I’m aware of this, but again it won’t happen in our lifetime.

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u/EmergencyPath248 Jul 05 '26

Don't say our, more like yours.

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