Posted 17 July 2017 - 12:07 AM
When I look at Trump's head I see the failure of modern medicine to cure male pattern baldness.
Wait, wait! This isn't off topic!
If anyone wants to cure MPB, it'd be Trump, right, with his billions? That's a degenerative disease amongst thousands of other degenerative diseases that human scientists can't handle. Every dead or alive hair follicle on that Trump head is an independently functioning organ that communicates (or fails) with all of the other independently functioning follicle organs, and so "it's hard," say researchers. "We need more time and funding," they say.
So while I think it's future-probable that billionaire people will fund and eventually implement "their own" (said in context) "advanced cryonics techniques" I find it unlikely that that's happening now. Is it, and we just don't know? Shrug. Protect net neutrality: how do we know anything?
As the life sciences have advanced, they've also highlighted the limitations of the humans engaged with it. "Biology is hard" they say, and we agree. "We're underfunded," they say, and we agree. Why would the death sciences (cryonics) be different? It's too mysterious and hard for our brains and dollars, they say. Cryonic advances may be questions like life science questions: solvable one day by AI because humans are too, um, limited to do these hard things.
Look, repairing degenerative aging is now beyond the scope of human capacity. Cancer cures? CVD cures? Arthritis cures? Depression, diabetes, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, bone loss, vision loss, hearing loss, skin matrix degeneration, repairing avasculular cartilage, on and on... It's all too hard for humans to do.
We shall look to machines to solve our problems. And good luck with that, we're told. AI advances into the regenerative medicine and cryonics realms that are meaningful to poor schlubs like me and you are "decades away..."
Or, are they already happening right now?
Meanwhile, keep an eye on net neutrality. Protect thy free flow of information. Once that's lost to us, pfft.