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theadvancedapes · 3741 days ago · link · · parent · post: Google dedicates 1.5b to Anti-aging research

IMO, all research funding dedicated to fundamentally understanding and eliminating/preventing degenerative diseases is a good thing; regardless of the egos involved.

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user-inactivated · 3741 days ago · link ·

Except if they then try to patent those technologies forever and withhold them from the people who need it most.

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user-inactivated · 3737 days ago · link ·

That has not yet been Google's attitude about anything.

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user-inactivated · 3735 days ago · link ·

Oh, we were talking about Google? I was just saying in general that pharmaceutical companies that do this sort of research try and withhold these things from the common people for the sake of their bottom line.

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iammyownrushmore · 3741 days ago · link ·

I was under the impression that the initial explicit mission of Calico had nothing to with degenerative diseases and was simply about studying the "disease" of aging using genomics-like technology, so it's nice to see them change course and get real. I'm still skeptical about their approach, but they haven't elucidated much about that yet.

I guess if you already can own a Porsche/Tesla by the age of 30, your mid-life crisis is gonna look pretty different from what mine will probably look like.