Comment by thelastgallon
1 day ago
We don’t need to cure death. Just hair loss and old skin, it will create $50T market cap in new companies.
1 day ago
We don’t need to cure death. Just hair loss and old skin, it will create $50T market cap in new companies.
I’m actually more interested in hair removal. There should be better methods than what we have now.
If I’m going bald, then I’d love to shortcut the process.
Shaving is awful no matter where it is on your body. It takes time, it’s irritating and you never look fresh for more than a day.
I've moved to designer stubble. You can leave it 2 or 3 days and the lawnmower like stubble trimmers are quite quick.
Isn't this solved with laser hair removal?
Laser hair removal only works if there's contrast between the skin and the hair. So if you have white or blonde hair and white skin, it doesn't work; or if you have brown skin and brown hair, it also doesn't work.
For cases where laser hair removal won't work, there's electrolysis, which involves inserting an acupuncture needle in each and every hair follicle, but it's expensive, slow, and can be pretty painful.
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Sort of. It's often not perfect, and often not permanent.
mostly, but not always, and it's harder if there is less contrast between hair color and skin color.
Just grow a scraggly and comb it down. Venture capitalists wear t-shirts that show their nipples on stage, so what’s the shame in a long scraggly.
There's nothing shameful about nipples anyway.
The hair one is a fascinating one to me... We have some many examples of people like Bezos, Jobs, Ballmer, Brin, Slim... I mean, if the ultra rich have not figured it out, I don't think there much hope for anyone else really... haha of they can pull a Musk, but that's not the point, the point is to reverse balding...
It's not what you meant but toupees have gotten really good, the only problem is you can't be a public figure and have pattern baldness one day and a full head of hair the next. There's actually something called "the toupee fallacy" which means assuming an entire category of something is bad based on only noticing bad examples.
I Think You Should Leave had a sketch that's a fake ad for bald men who have been wearing toupees and want to stop but don't want to show up to work one day bald, making everyone think you've been lying to them. So the service is they send you a new toupee every week, each one balder than the last over the span of 52 weeks, so you can look like you're progressively going bald.
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> can pull a Musk, but that's not the point, the point is to reverse balding
How much such hairline can cost, $10?
nah, but I mean, the guy went trough the same instant pipeline as Steven Seagal where he was definitely all thin in Above the Law and a film later his hairline had won the battle. Come on!
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Trump, the most vain of them all, has tried pretty much every way for the last 40 years. It's likely mostly glue at this point.
How about just reversing grey hair. I’m surprised no one figured that out yet.
Is market value the only important thing?
That's the world we've built. It's not a world for humans.
In a market-driven economy, yes sadly.
Not everything is about the economy. Even when you have a market-driven economy I'd say most things that people value aren't even represented by the economy.
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No, we need to cure death. I have no problems having old skin and being bald if I can live for 1000 years.
Isn't this covered in multiple sci-fi genres? There's no real way to distinguish immortality from what amounts to a pre-planned death around some kind of life extension procedure. As a social group, we're more likely to select something that is effectively "continuation of thought patterns" than we are to actually extend consciousness
I think brain and eyes within a vat are completely within the realm of possibility in the very near future if not already. That would definitely register to me as extending consciousness with no preplanned death.