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Mon, 05 Dec 2011 05:04:05 GMT

That is true, but life-extending tech/transhumanism doesn't tend to focus on making people be old for a longer period of time, but on lengthening our "peak" years.

This is actually one of the arguments that proponents of life-extending technologies use. Nay-sayers will say: "Well, who wants to be 150 years old? You'd be sick and wrinkly and falling apart, etc?" The general come-back is that the whole point of the tech is to not make you be old until you were, say 130 years old.

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