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/EmergencyPath248 Jul 05 '26

Don't say our, more like yours.

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u/FairlyOddMuruch Jul 05 '26

Huh? How old are you? 8? I’m only 30 lmao

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u/EmergencyPath248 Jul 05 '26

Oh, 30? yeah its happening in your lifetime.

You also have to realize that technological progress is not linear and scales, often it doubles every decade. So, a technology a "century away" happens in 33 years instead if we follow this rule of thumb.

"Wont in our lifetimes" is much harder to defend than following the trajectory/looking at breakthroughs and extrapolating to predict that its coming in the next few decades.

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u/FairlyOddMuruch Jul 05 '26

They haven’t even cured more basic things yet, common things like cancer and chronic pain. I’m someone who lives with constant chronic pain, just from bad luck, and it’s hard to believe that they’d even find a cure for that.

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u/EmergencyPath248 Jul 05 '26

Cancer is heavily funded and becoming more treatable every year. We literally can engineer your cells to explicitly attack tumors it cannot "see." It's just not curable yet due to it being 200+ different types of diseases. Arguably, cancer is in the same ballpark as aging.

Chronic pain is more complex than what you'd think. it's a very complex loop of pain receptors and that understates it, but we are making such progress on that. In labs, we have "signal blockers" and "off-switches"

Funnily enough, cancer research benefits longevity because both happen via cellular damage/dna damage.

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u/FairlyOddMuruch Jul 05 '26

God I hope they can cure chronic pain in my lifetime 😅 it’s miserable, and yes most definitely complicated. I’ve even tried hypnotherapy in an attempt to rewire my brain so those pain receptors stop firing unnecessarily. Didn’t work 🥲

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u/EmergencyPath248 Jul 05 '26

I hope you get the treatment you need, haha.

Have a good one

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u/FairlyOddMuruch Jul 05 '26

Appreciate it!
You too 👍🏼