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This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. (www.technologyreview.com)

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[-] icerunner_origin@startrek.website 11 points 1 month ago

I am not renting my corporeal existence from a megacorporation. There is no way this is ever affordable to the masses without some pretty huge caveats

[-] eatthecake@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Your Brain^tm^ privacy policy has been updated. Blink once to accept the new privacy policy.

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Caveat 1: Move out of the US

Caveat 2: ???

Caveat 3: Extended youth

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Caveat 2: ???

That would be the, become a citizen of a country with free health care, part of the plan. That would be the hard bit.

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

I mean, most of the masses already do meet that requirement. OP seems to think there are only 'masses' in the US and nowhere else.

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