AI researcher imagines nanobots curing fevers when he's ninety
dioscuri · x · 2026-10-14
- AI researcher Haydn Belfield offers a longevity-futurist vignette: at ninety, if his daughter has a fever, nanobots will fix it quickly — and he'll still take his great-great-grandkids to the park.
- The quoted reply reacts emotionally to picturing one's children growing old, reflecting ongoing AI-circle enthusiasm about radical life extension.
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