{"id":83211,"date":"2018-10-02T10:15:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T17:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=83211"},"modified":"2018-10-02T10:32:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T17:32:39","slug":"movement-for-indefinite-life-extension-2018-drive-to-stay-alive-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/movement-for-indefinite-life-extension-2018-drive-to-stay-alive-message","title":{"rendered":"Movement for Indefinite Life Extension 2018 Drive to Stay Alive Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-83211-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/movement-for-indefinite-life-extension-1.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/movement-for-indefinite-life-extension-1.mp4\">https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/movement-for-indefinite-life-extension-1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>The universe is filled with uncountable amounts of mystery, discovery, opportunity, experiences, marvels and more. So, let\u2019s not die if we don\u2019t have to.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s much harder to make the case that radical longevity cannot be engineered into our biology than that it can. Humanity engineers cells in countless ways all the time now, and our knowledge, capability and tools keep growing exponentially.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a mainstream amount of demand to create a bustling global industry of life extension R&amp;D is the only thing standing between you and the ability to live indefinitely.\u201d \u2014 Eric Schulke<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen thousand years worth of Netflix are watched every day. Fifteen billion dollars are spent on the Super Bowl and fifteen billion dollars are spent on Valentine\u2019s day. Those aren\u2019t bad things but we need some perspective. Survival is humanity\u2019s main and oldest occupation. We have what it takes to survive if we pay attention and get with the program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, the future is transhumanism. Who would ask \u2018Is the future being alive and prosperous?\u2019 As if anyone should expect humanity to work for a future of hardship and death.\u201d \u2014 Ray Keyes<\/p>\n<p>People suffer in great existential voids these decades, not only do they need life, they need deep meaning and purpose. The movement for indefinite life extension is giving them both.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mile-utopian-focuse-lifeboat-300x277.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The universe is filled with uncountable amounts of mystery, discovery, opportunity, experiences, marvels and more. So, let\u2019s not die if we don\u2019t have to. It\u2019s much harder to make the case that radical longevity cannot be engineered into our biology than that it can. Humanity engineers cells in countless ways all the time now, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[372,1902,30,12,20,269,225,1501],"tags":[3181,2133,3179,318,2622,3180,251],"class_list":["post-83211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-bioengineering","category-ethics","category-existential-risks","category-futurism","category-life-extension","category-philosophy","category-transhumanism-2","tag-existential-vacuum","tag-futurism","tag-health-activism","tag-life-extension-tag","tag-meaning-of-life","tag-movement-for-indefinite-life-extension","tag-transhumanism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83211"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83219,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83211\/revisions\/83219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}