Would it be good to let geniuses live a few decades longer?

[okaysomevampires]

If there was an expensive medical operation (like tens of millions of dollars) that would halt aging for 20-30 years, would it be good to give it to special people so they can do more special stuff?

The upside is obvious.

Counter argument: their best years are behind them, a genius only has so much good work in them. If we gave Paglia another couple decades with a healthy brain we probably wouldn't get anything truly new, if we got anything at all. They're only going to hold back the culture by finding clever ways to rehash the perspectives that have had their time in the sun by now. Even among scientists the truth has sometimes only won because those with reputation backing a dogma have died off- how much worse could it be in art or music, where it isn't even false, just played out?

I don't know if I should buy this, because I don't know if they are going to make more unique associations between ideas in their (synthetically extended) middle age. I don't think we pick up on a lot of true geniuses while they are young-ish? If the operation were cheap enough it might be cool to give it to guys who are just obsessed with math and have a pretty high IQ- I'll bet that will get you some results.

 

[Spas]

Most reddit thing I've read all day

 

[Negrobud]

Hell no, it's not good. That's just another form of government overreach, trying to play god with who gets to live longer. They'd decide who's special enough, and you know it'd be their cronies or whoever pays them off.

 

[Weebhunter3000]

Yes, and I would extend the process to include great political leaders and advisors. Holding the culture back is temporary, and great men only live once so the risk is negligible.

 

[Swede Immigrant]

Counter argument: their best years are behind them, a genius only has so much good work in them.

Not true. Imagine if we still had Satoru Iwata around, developing videogames. Some people are born with unlimited potential.

 

[Dawood]

It's not solely geniuses who advance society, society as a whole collectively does. In the instance where a genius does make some kind of insane discovery, it's not like they did so apart from society. We don't need to make geniuses live longer or forever, because society will continue to produce new ones and advance technology on its own. We're not reliant on smart people to progress, they only speed up the time of advancement.

 

[panchito]

Not true. Imagine if we still had Satoru Iwata around, developing videogames. Some people are born with unlimited potential.

>giving life-extending medicine to jap vidya devs
soy meters OVERHEATING

 

[Swede Immigrant]

>giving life-extending medicine to jap vidya devs
soy meters OVERHEATING

I like good games.

 

[panchito]

I like good games.

it'd be better if we gave it to good leaders that make good living conditions instead
plus 99% of japs restrict themselves to making fanservice lolishit anyways and the number is increasing

 

[Swede Immigrant]

it'd be better if we gave it to good leaders that make good living conditions instead
plus 99% of japs restrict themselves to making fanservice lolishit anyways and the number is increasing

We could do both. Though I agree Japs don’t really make games anymore. Just coom simulators.

 

[Digital Cheese]

You can already live another 20-30 years more than usual by not eating goyslop, actually doing physical activity, and having decent-enough genetics.

 

[panchito]

having decent-enough genetics.

this is where it's over for me