Did no one watch altered carbon? This doesn't end well.

if we're lucky we'll get to see a few billionaires melt themselves before they perfect it

If this gets any traction expect insurance companies to start getting religious real quick.

Oh boy! I can't wait for rich assholes that make the world worse for everyone to live even longer!

At least they're going to have a minimum incentive to worry about climate change

Forever. And so obviously presidential terms should be extended.

non-paywall mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20261008200818/https://www.businessinsider.com/billionaires-cellular-reprogramming-longevity-it-may-work-2026-10

ugh. cellular reprogramming sounds a lot like gene therapy. its actually why I studies microbiology as I was facinated by the whirling blender experiment.

Hey it’s like Silo/Wool

Who would've thought that the notion of extending human lifespan would receive this level of cynicism and opposition.

Old people already own everything (rich old people in particular, but even the median old person has much more in assets than the median young person). If they live longer, they stay retired longer and therefore need more people slaving away to keep their assets growing in their retirement.

According to statistics from the US, people over 55 own 73.7% of all assets. Imagine all those people get 10 or 15 extra years to accumulate assets. Of course if this therapy is expensive then it's just the rich ones so all of the drawbacks of people living longer with none of the advantages for everyone else.

They’ll just put aircon in their bunkers.

Ofcourse they own more when they've had more time to accumulate wealth.

I still want to live longer and I find it quite insane to oppose technology that could achieve this.

The good thing is, i bet most of these won't help those that ate currently past their prime, i.e. Musk, Bezos, etc

Might help the zuck tho

I mean it won't make them guillotine proof.

I no longer have any faith the working class will do anything but eat itself. In the US at least.

Oh they will probably transfer bodies or something equally disturbing.

Just like with everything else, it's just for the rich

Excuse me, but have you seen all the end-stage capitalism out there? Let's be realistic now.

So Zuck can remain youthfully ugly?

It won't help Zuck, cos there's no mention that this therapy works on lizards lol

So we all can slave away for billionaires even longer? Fck off.