Is normal ageing a problem to be solved?

[rickyrickygrimes]

I was listening to a podcast interview with Demis Hassabis (CEO of Google Deepmind, general AI mastermind) and he was talking about the huge potential for AI, and more specifically AGI, to tackle some of the huge challenges facing humanity today… and mentioned ageing as one of the most important.

Is normal ageing actually a problem that we need to solve? Isn’t it a natural part of a normal life cycle - to live, to get old, ill, then die? I don’t have a problem with that. I don’t want to live forever (why would you?) even in relatively good health. To every living thing, a season.

We're losing sight of the whole natural cycle of life. I'm oddly enjoying the middle part of life - our DC are all settled adults in their own lives, we've got money in the bank to enjoy life and we're content. So what if the face in the mirror looks older... I'm alive, and determined to enjoy every part of it while I am. And I'm quite proud of being 55 and never having had a cosmetic procedure!

i also feel it’s part of the process for older generations to step back / aside and let younger people move up and onwards. What do they do if all the key roles are being held by augmented 60, 70, 80, year olds?

I can’t say I’m necessarily enjoying being 52, but it’s just part of life, right? I’m not afraid of being dead, I don’t think I’m so important to the world that my own little life should be extended.