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Probably because, barring completely antibiotic resistant bacteria or some super-virus, if you live in a high-income area, you are either looking at dying due to your heart giving out, or your brain.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/the-top-10-...

“Deaths due to Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias have increased, overtaking stroke to become the second leading cause in high-income countries, and being responsible for the deaths of 814 000 people in 2019.”

And given the nominally cerebral bent of this forum: kinda makes sense we’re freaking out about our brains throwing a kernel panic someday.




I think the third one is cancer. And I think there is quite a bit of press releases on new possible methods and drugs on it.


We’ve made an obscene amount of progress on cancer, and we’re getting better daily. We’ve made 0 progress on Alzheimer’s in ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY.

I would rather have AIDS and Ebola at the same time than Alzheimers.


To be fair, for a lot of human history we didn't long enough to see it, so we can't blame them for it.


I really hope that’s not a choice you have to make someday.




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