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Desperate_Food7354 OP t1_j3msf2m wrote

Reply to comment by jdmcnair in Arguments against calling aging a disease make no sense relative to other natural processes we attempt to fix. by Desperate_Food7354

Sexual Reproduction was only necessary for evolution as a changing environment called for having variable offspring, but if the environment never changed we would duplicate instead. We are no longer under natural selection.

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jdmcnair t1_j3mz8kx wrote

Sure. But we'll need to somehow restrict reproduction to be able to say that it's socially viable to live for a longer lifespan, lest we face uncontrollable population explosion.

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Desperate_Food7354 OP t1_j3n8um7 wrote

That doesn’t necessarily seem like a problem of extreme difficulty, especially with the advent of AGI

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