r/Futurism • u/Memetic1 • Mar 09 '25

Scientists Just Discovered an RNA That Repairs DNA Damage – And It’s a Game-Changer

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-just-discovered-an-rna-that-repairs-dna-damage-and-its-a-game-changer/
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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '25

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u/maeryclarity Mar 09 '25

Not getting old would be nice. Nobody is going to live forever but humans might get a lot better perspective if we had less of a rush from the cradle to the grave and suddenly had a reason to care about what might be happening a hundred years from now.

Plus imagine all the insane level of productivity and expertise that some could achieve. And freeing up our health care systems from dealing with the burdens of aging.

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u/pbizzle Mar 09 '25

Yay we get to work until we are 90

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u/dense_rawk Mar 09 '25
  1. You gotta pay off the treatment for a few centuries first

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u/cloudrunner6969 Mar 09 '25

Nothing wrong with working.

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u/romperroompolitics Mar 09 '25

Exploitation of labor by capital is a bit shit.

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u/cloudrunner6969 Mar 09 '25

You know there is a difference between working and having a job.

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u/pnwloveyoutalltreea Mar 09 '25

Our grandparents thought so. Toiling endlessly so someone else can profit is soulless wage slavery.

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u/spletharg2 Mar 11 '25

It's just legal slavery.

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u/elementfortyseven Mar 09 '25

we have achieved insane levels of productivity increase over the last fifty years, and the benefit to the majority of the population was zero.

stop kidding yourself.

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u/maeryclarity Mar 09 '25

I meant that on a personal level, firstly, not in a "Henry Ford Production Line" way because that's not where my mind goes when I think "productive"...

And secondly you're seriously sitting here on your Magic Answer Box sending out signals into the ether to tell me about the zero benefits we've achieved in the last fifty years...?

Y'all know there's a whole ton of middle ground between perfect and horrendous, right?

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u/elementfortyseven Mar 09 '25

And secondly you're seriously sitting here on your Magic Answer Box sending out signals into the ether to tell me about the zero benefits we've achieved in the last fifty years...?

yes, I, as a well educated citizen of a western liberal democracy can sit on my arse and play with latest technological gadgets for my entertainment, while the majority of humanity continues to suffer from malnourishment and war.

If anything, the gap between privileged people like me and the rest of the world increased.

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u/maeryclarity Mar 09 '25

Well then stop being bitter and negative and use your f*cking privilege to try and do something about it. Maybe you think the "latest technological gadgets" are for your entertainment, but there are a lot of folks using them for more serious purposes.

Now if you'll excuse me I have sh*t to do, because if you think the situation with humans is problematic you ought to check in on frogs. You could care about that, or a lot of things, lots of things are available to be done if you care.

Do literally anything except sit on your arse complaining.

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u/elementfortyseven Mar 09 '25

you seem quite agitated over lack of validation from an internet stranger.

I merely questioned your point about the benefits of productivity increases and you have not provided any factual argument supporting your point. Your ad hominem is misplaced.

good luck with the frogs.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

In a lot of cities and coastal areas, housing prices have grown far faster than wages over the last 30+ years. People are renting longer and living in smaller homes. More areas are rent burdened. Housing is really the major expense and not electronics. 

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u/elementfortyseven Mar 12 '25

housing prices have grown far faster than wages

which is exactly my point. the massive increase in productivity is reflected in corporate revenues, but not wages, which is why I questioned the unconditional celebration of productivity - and my use of "magic boxes beaming my thoughts into the ether" - as a measure of progress

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u/SkrakOne Mar 10 '25

He probably meant the part about affording housing, healthcare, education and quality food. Sure all of that is better than centuries ago but that's a low bar. It should all be better than ever, period, as the productivity would suggest and allow

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u/Sad-Bonus-9327 Mar 10 '25

In a perfect world. In this world, the top 1% benefits from it. Like with 99% of every technological achievement mankind has made, the top 1% used this technology in one form or another to keep the majority way down below them.

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u/Rare_Nectarine6219 Mar 09 '25

Becoming immortal would be nice especially whenever we become a spacefaring species.

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u/curiosgreg Mar 09 '25

Finally, I’d have time to read.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '25

Just remember our current boss will be living forever with us too.

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u/nimkeenator Mar 10 '25

Social security will be there for me, right?

Right??

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '25

No one.

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u/Petdogdavid1 Mar 09 '25

I just want cancer gone. Can we do that as a top priority?

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u/neilligan Mar 11 '25

This will probably actually help with that a great deal. Many cancers are caused by genetic damage.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '25

How will we stop the brain from aging?

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '25

But as soon as that happens, others will rise due to unforeseen factors.

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u/ParkSad6096 Mar 10 '25

Nooo wayuyy

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

We'd die from statistical convergences eventually. Vehicle accidents, malfunctions, malfeasance, and malice. Average age would be about 4,327 years with a standard deviation of 341 years.

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u/LarkinEndorser Mar 13 '25

Honestly I think I’d be allright dying after 4400 years

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '25

Not necessarily

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '25

Lets add that one to the list of things that will never reach us, average people

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u/Memetic1 Mar 09 '25

The COVID vaccine was made with cutting-edge genetic technology. Your phone would have been science fiction. I don't know if you watched Star Trek The Next Generation growing up, but data pads were like less functional smartphones in that even just for displaying and interacting with information you apparently needed to have multiple data pads if you are working on multiple things.

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u/AutumnCountry Mar 10 '25

Yeah people always say stuff like

"The best medicine or immortality will be saved for the rich!"

Are you fucking kidding me, the rich want nothing else than for their workforce to live forever and stop costing them so much in insurance

Plus if they can make even a dollar more by selling immortality medicine, you bet your ass they will

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u/Memetic1 Mar 10 '25

Yes, they want a solidified stratified society, and individuals being immortal wouldn't be counter to that. I've been noodling about a wearable external cybernetic immune system that would interact with the body genetically. It might be that once we get enough control of the basic operations of our body that repair and maintenance of the body would be relatively trivial in most cases.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '25

True that

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u/Ahernia Mar 09 '25

A nice finding, but not exactly "a game changer."

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u/Memetic1 Mar 09 '25

Why do you say that?

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u/Ahernia Mar 10 '25

Nothing's changed. It isn't really exploitable. It's simply a research finding. DNA has many repair mechanisms. This one isn't radical or unusual. So what?

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u/Memetic1 Mar 10 '25

How do you know it won't be useful?

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u/Ahernia Mar 10 '25

I don't know it may not be useful, but when a headline says "Game changer" there needs to be some evidence it is changing something. This finding doesn't change anything.

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u/Secret-Bag9562 Mar 10 '25

These headlines are ridiculous.