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.

      • Bizarroland
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        32 years ago

        First dose is $3, second dose is $300.

        I would be saving up all year to get a week younger as a treat

  • Big P
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    852 years ago

    I put stuff up my ass that doesn’t even stop me aging

    • BattleFox
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      42 years ago

      Okay, but now the suppository causes polyps in the large intestine as a side effect.

  • Herbstzeitlose
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    102 years ago

    What kinda question is this? I already take plenty of pills daily, I would do much worse things to not age.

  • @[email protected]
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    252 years ago

    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.)

  • qyron
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    42 years ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      92 years ago

      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.

      • qyron
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        62 years ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          62 years ago

          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).

          • qyron
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            22 years ago

            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.

            • Blake [he/him]
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              52 years ago

              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.

              • qyron
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                12 years ago

                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.

                • Blake [he/him]
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                  32 years ago

                  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.

      • Clarke
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        12 years ago

        He’s trying to say that humans with unlimited time would become masters of many things

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          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

  • @[email protected]
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    272 years ago

    Um hell yes. And if it were a suppository, we’d all quickly get used to some butthole time every morning

  • @[email protected]
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    72 years ago

    That depends, does it prevent me from dying at a normal age? If so fuck that I don’t wanna outlive everyone I know and care about. If it just keeps me looking and feeling young, then sign me tf up my guy.

    • asudox
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      12 years ago

      Guess I’ll take a bunch of aging pills and look at my future self then use anti agibg pills to go back.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      12 years ago

      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?