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Why are longevity research and life extension technologies not as popular as space traveling or AIs?
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It appears to me that despite the promising breakthroughs that have been made in this field, not many people seem to care about it, and I don't know why, because it is a fascinating subject and, if achieved, it would be the greatest feat ever achieved by humankind.

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I know this might not be a popular take, but it's genuinely because of sci-fi. No. Seriously. Fiction is a MASSIVE driver in Innovation and 97% of sci-fi doesn't cover SENS either at all or not in a positive way.

Even the oft-lauded Culture series takes a comparatively dim view on truly radical life extension.

If you want it to change either get into research, science communication or sci-fi writing.

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The books I'm assuming.

The show was very standard living = bad slop.

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See. I feel that's not entirely fair. It's more that SENS advancements tend to occur with such regularity we've started to take them for granted.

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