{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Do you believe that curing death or mastering cryonics will happen within your natural lifetime?", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/702037965352861696/", "html": "
3dspacejesus asked: Do you believe that curing death or mastering cryonics will happen within your natural lifetime?
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kontextmaschine:

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prudencepaccard:

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kontextmaschine:

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slartibartfastibast:

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kontextmaschine:

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No. Immortality has been \u201cjust a few improvements on the current state of the art\u201d away for approximately ever.

Don\u2019t tell the most recent immortality cult about this. It would break their clich\u00e9d little hearts.

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Yeah the funny thing is how the \u201cstate of the art\u201d consistently refers to whatever field\u2019s particularly prominent and cutting-edge at the time.

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It\u2019s been alchemy in medieval Europe and ancient China, electricity in Revolutionary France, extremely low-temperature liquid circulation in the rocket age, data storage in the computer age, now it\u2019s biotech because of course it is.

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In 16th Century Spain with the whole Fountain of Life thing it was fucking western hemisphere cartography.

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\u201cIn 16th Century Spain with the whole Fountain of Life thing it was fucking western hemisphere cartography\u201d holy shit this is 100% right

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This post was one of the ones that \u201cmade me\u201d early on

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