According to the unsolicited email I regularly receive, there are already products on the market for making bones longer. And lasting all night, which would I guess make it significantly easier to get out of bed in the morning.
I'm missing something, what good are long bones, specifically? Seems to me strength is the most important parameter, especially in aging populations..?
Picturing octogenarians with disproportionately long arms and legs is hilarious. Beats shrinking in height from bone loss and the impacts of having a fall in your 80s.
Online dating seems miserable! Although the misery makes sense to me. It's a highly competitive arena with very low friction. It reminds me of using Facebook Marketplace vs Craigslist. FBM is full of the worst, flakiest people to coordinate a transaction with. The added friction from CL cuts down of the number of drive-bys and lowballers somewhat.
* I met my first real partner online- but that was on MySpace pre-appification of everything. I haven't dated anyone I met online since, so maybe I'm just talking out of my ass here.
>It reminds me of using Facebook Marketplace vs Craigslist. FBM is full of the worst, flakiest people to coordinate a transaction with. The added friction from CL cuts down of the number of drive-bys and lowballers somewhat.
Totally opposite of my experience when I was last using them. CL was absolutely full of scammers trying to send me cashier's checks for stuff. FBM had people who were real people, who actually came with cash to buy my stuff. FBM's UI was absolutely terrible, but it was worth it to avoid all the scamming on CL.
>Online dating seems miserable!
I met all my girlfriends on there in the past couple of decades. The latest one is working out wonderfully. Sure, there were some bad dates and some not-so-great people, but you'll get that anywhere.
Unfortunately (or fortunately?) the track record of billionaires throwing money at problems unrelated to how they made their billions is not great. Yachts are easy to buy, cancer cures and life extension technologies are not so easy to buy.
This becoming viable would do to high-status men what white lead makeup did to high status women in the 19th century. Being tall isn’t as important as being taller than average, so you’d create an arms race among those who could afford the treatment. Which itself would strengthen the association between being short and being poor. And we all know how this ends, with a 7 foot tall millionaires dying of heart attacks as their circulatory system doesn’t naturally scale with their height.
