<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Time enough for mindful actions could prevent falling down. Time enough to consider long term consequences could prevent downfalls. MIke </span><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Gargantua "Drink always before the thirst and it will never come upon you. " There's the right answer: prevention. Plenty of ways to prevent falling, nonslip things in the bathroom, reduce medication (my case) to lower dizziness, accompany the person, walkers of many types (cane at the very least), proper shoes.</font></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Problem "I am too young for these damned things. They are for old people. I am not old." So we have a person who is willing to die to keep up his denial.. Me - I don't care what people think.</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">bill w</font></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 3:50 PM Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 3, 2021, 4:33 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div dir="ltr">Then again, no reason not to pursue many strategies here. And I would out all my eggs in the most radical approach. After all, promises of AI, nanotechnology assemblers, cheap fusion, space migration, uploading, etc. have been made over decades and not kept. So better to try many strategies in case the seemingly obvious radical ones don’t pan out before you (rhetorical) have a life-ending hip fracture. (From your comment, it seems you already agree.)</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Absolutely. The prevailing wisdom is to do everything you can live long enough to live forever. I'm for slowing ageing. I'm for slowing life in general. Time enough for mindful actions could prevent falling down. Time enough to consider long term consequences could prevent downfalls.</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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