Overall mortality mortality and morbidity rates don’t lie. You can’t do enough creative accounting to hide vast amounts of infectious disease mortality within a much longer healthy lifespan.
(And yes, it’s healthier on average, even counting obesity. Painful disability was more common in the past.)
The nice thing about sequencing is that eventually it’ll be feasible to take a slice of your tissue and identify everything that’s not you. Easier to make progress at that point.
Replacing your cells with nanotech cells that bacteria/viruses/prions/etc can’t crack, and which have very solid checksum/error-correcting codes to prevent things like nanotech cancer… you’re safe against any non-intentionally-designed attack. (To say nothing of the abstraction layers possible with uploading.)
“Normal” transhumanist technologies aren’t perfect, but they are barely epsilon-susceptible to natural infectious diseases.
Overall mortality mortality and morbidity rates don’t lie. You can’t do enough creative accounting to hide vast amounts of infectious disease mortality within a much longer healthy lifespan.
(And yes, it’s healthier on average, even counting obesity. Painful disability was more common in the past.)
The nice thing about sequencing is that eventually it’ll be feasible to take a slice of your tissue and identify everything that’s not you. Easier to make progress at that point.
Replacing your cells with nanotech cells that bacteria/viruses/prions/etc can’t crack, and which have very solid checksum/error-correcting codes to prevent things like nanotech cancer… you’re safe against any non-intentionally-designed attack. (To say nothing of the abstraction layers possible with uploading.)
“Normal” transhumanist technologies aren’t perfect, but they are barely epsilon-susceptible to natural infectious diseases.