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DrPrimemaster posted...

Supposedly the pill keeps you healthier longer too, so quality if life lasts longer. I dont think this applied to the brain though.

Memory is fallible, either way. Memories can be altered by outside influences, such as what people say or do around you over time, to say nothing of how memories can be lost or replaced over decades, if that. Lots of people in their 70s and up now don't recall things the way they actually were, more often than not, which tracks with the idea of the strongest memories lasting 75-ish years before perishing.

Now imagine people in their 150s or up, no longer able to remember friends and loved ones who had mattered 20, 30, even 80 years prior. Imagine how miserable some such folks will be, and how miserable everyone else will be dealing with those older folks' misery. That is a terrible idea.

And I feel like big companies would be all for it if it meant retaining wage slaves for longer; people who can't remember where they're from and have nowhere to go but back to work for sub-poverty levels of money. I can hope not as much as I'd like to hope, but let's be honest about the state of the world, here. <_<