lemme in@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoThis researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates.www.technologyreview.comexternal-linkmessage-square147fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThis researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates.www.technologyreview.comlemme in@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square147fedilink
minus-squarerealitista@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 day agoYou’d have zero control over your existence. Someone else would own that station and you’d exist entirely at their whim. They would decide if you get food, air, water, shelter. No real access to nature. I’d rather die.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 day agoI already live the renting life. Not much is going to change.
minus-squarerealitista@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 day agoYou’re not renting air and water. You have a market of options to choose from. None of those things will be true in space.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 day agoAir yeah, water though. We absolutely rent water. My point though is that we’re already used to paying a monthly sum to exist.
minus-squarerealitista@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 day agoIn a market economy. I’d never sign up to be slave to a single corporation that has complete control of my life and livelihood.
You’d have zero control over your existence. Someone else would own that station and you’d exist entirely at their whim. They would decide if you get food, air, water, shelter. No real access to nature. I’d rather die.
I already live the renting life. Not much is going to change.
You’re not renting air and water. You have a market of options to choose from. None of those things will be true in space.
Air yeah, water though. We absolutely rent water. My point though is that we’re already used to paying a monthly sum to exist.
In a market economy. I’d never sign up to be slave to a single corporation that has complete control of my life and livelihood.