You can assume that for every day you take the pill you don’t age that day - if you skip it for a day you age by a day.
Who is going to reject this?
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a daily shot? i wouldn’t do that just purely out of lack of convenience.
I have to give myself injections every day, it’s really not hard or much of an issue at all. You get used to it.
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Without hesitation.
Sign me up. Even if there’s side effects like nausea or whatever. I’ll do whatever it takes to stop my bones hurting more every year.
But what if it doesn’t make you younger? So you’ll still stay your current age, with all the chronic stuff you already have.
I’m 34. Yes, my bones hurt, but it’s not terrible and I’d rather stay 34 forever (or at least drastically slow my aging, like if there were serious side effects I could take one every two days and effectively double my longevity).
I’ll be my age forever, perfectly ok with that. Make taking the bum pill part of a daily exercise routine.
This is a definitely yes question. No other side effects? Sign me up!!
Um hell yes. And if it were a suppository, we’d all quickly get used to some butthole time every morning
Are you guys not doing butthole time every morning!?
Sometimes before bed too. Can’t be too careful.
I’ve made it a normal part of my meal routine to be sure I’m getting in my three times a day.
Will it be simply cosmetic event or would it involve preserving the integrety of your internal organs?
If it’s the second: welcome to Groundhog Day, except the rest of the world moves and you stay still.
You aren’t aging so it’s preserving the integrity of your organs. But it’s not a time machine pill and everyone can buy and use it if they want, so it’s not a Groundhog Day situation.
He’s trying to say that humans with unlimited time would become masters of many things
They’d have to practice every skill regularly. Any skill you gain if you don’t keep it up you’ll lose it over time. Sure it’ll be easier to pick back up again but you won’t do it anywhere near you did the last time
Your brain actively changes in order to acquire new information. If the drug preserves the integrity, when you close your eyes, it’s a reset.
Thus, Groundhog Day.
Ahh I see what you mean. The pill is able to both allow you to continue to learn new information and develop normally while preventing negative age related effects like dementia from forming. Of course in reality there would likely be some contradiction there, but I’ll just wave my hands and say the pill has magic fairy dust (harvested from happy fairies who are happy to share it so there’s no ethical considerations there).
Let’s allow the magic dust, then.
I don’t think I would. Perhaps for a few years, at most, but at some point you would find yourself feeling alone and tired. Even with the possibility of stopping to take the pills at any moment.
As we lose loved ones, friends, relatives, our world shrinks. And that is something you have to carry for the entirity of your existence, the longing for people you lost or were deprived of. Or it could just be you to be forgotten by others.
Eternal youth is a burden because you would age nonetheless but only inside your skull. It takes a special kind of person to deal with “immortality” and not turn cynical or callous, assuming that at a given point you wouldn’t just simply lose your sanity.
This is a recurring theme in literature and the outcome is usually the same: immortals long for the rest denied to them, as the world moves forward with complete disregard for their longing of what was and disappears.
No one has ever had to deal with this so we have no idea of knowing what psychological effects would occur. “It’s been explored in literature” does not have the same meaning as “it’s been the subject of a double-blind study”.
I think most “ooh it would be bad to be immortal actually” is just copeium - people convincing themselves they don’t want something because they can’t have it anyways, so it’s less of a blow when they can’t get it.
To the detriment of hard science, there are experiments that shoul not, can not and will not ever be more than thought experiments.
It’s not very difficult to gauge how external change affects us. Unless we have a very special “wiring” in our minds, it breaks us in an over elaborate death by a thousand cuts.
Many people who lived long and fruitful and well lived lives left behind tellings, especially in the form of diaries, on how they missed that person, or pet, or place or something else. And this is something any human being can easily relate to.
Eternal youth would turn cruel to those having it.
We lose people we care about all the time during life and most of the time we don’t want our lives to end because we lost our friends, family or even lovers. If anything, it gets easier to accept loss as you get older. There’s no reason to think that trend would reverse.
Yes.
Seems like a no brainier. You’d get used to taking it.
I bet with time you could just hold the pill flat on your hand, reach back and your asshole would gobble it up like a horse.
This wasn’t a sentence I was expecting to read in my entire life.
People say AI start hallucinating bizarre sentences is a problem, but I’m beginning to wonder if it simply gazed too deeply into the internet abyss.
Mmm, would eat it like a good ol’ big chungus
Yes. Is the drug harvested from the brains of hyper intelligent whales from another planet? If so, then hell yes.
Wasn’t that the plot of avatar (the movie) or something?
The new Avatar, Way of the Water. It wasn’t the whole plot, but it was a big part of it.
There was a plot?
Lol yes
I’d be taking them two at a time!
Get a day younger for the double dose.
First dose is $3, second dose is $300.
I would be saving up all year to get a week younger as a treat
You would have all the time in the world to get as young as you like.
What kinda question is this? I already take plenty of pills daily, I would do much worse things to not age.
Even those of us who don’t enjoy putting things up our butts eventually get used to doing it anyway. It’s just another body part.
(Folks, if your butthole hurts, go to the doctor already. Hemorrhoids, anal fissures, and other butthole problems are quite treatable. Don’t let them get worse.)
Theres a lot of places I would gladly insert a lot of things if it stopped aging
If I take 2 a day could I go back in time?
Guess I’ll take a bunch of aging pills and look at my future self then use anti agibg pills to go back.
No. I guess the idea with the question is more around how often you’d take the pill. People can extend their lifetimes already by exercising and eating healthy, but how often do they keep that habit every day. If the pill only worked for one day at a time, how often do you think you’d skip taking it because you’d only age one day and you had a really busy day?
