{"id":84793,"date":"2018-11-16T08:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T16:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/a-day-in-the-world-of-the-lsaf"},"modified":"2018-11-16T08:22:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T16:22:23","slug":"a-day-in-the-world-of-the-lsaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/a-day-in-the-world-of-the-lsaf","title":{"rendered":"A Day in the World of the LSAF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-day-in-the-world-of-the-lsaf.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thought experiments can be really useful tools to better understand the implications of abstract ideas\u2014especially ideas that are accepted at face value as self-evident truths. In some cases, they resemble proofs by contradiction in that they allow us to see that, if said ideas were true, they would end up clashing with other ideas accepted as non-negotiable principles. What we\u2019re going to try today is something like that.<\/p>\n<p><b>Crossing into another dimension<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Every long-standing rejuvenation advocate has had to put up with people claiming that aging is a good thing on the questionable grounds that it may help to prevent overpopulation, cultural stagnation, the rise of \u201cimmortal\u201d dictators, getting bored of far too long lives, and so on. (I was even told by a friend of mine\u2014a truly stalwart advocate who\u2019s anything but afraid of bringing the topic up whenever he gets the chance\u2014that a man once briskly dismissed rejuvenation nonchalantly by saying, \u201cCome on, a little bit of death is all right.\u201d It\u2019s hard not to wonder if he\u2019d think the same if the people close to him were dying.) <\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/a-day-in-the-world-of-the-lsaf\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/a-day-in-the-world-of-the-lsaf\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought experiments can be really useful tools to better understand the implications of abstract ideas\u2014especially ideas that are accepted at face value as self-evident truths. In some cases, they resemble proofs by contradiction in that they allow us to see that, if said ideas were true, they would end up clashing with other ideas accepted [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84793","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}