What are your plans when Dechronification comes along?

Full essay (Death Is An Outrage): http://www.longevitymeme.org/articles/viewarticle. cfm?page=1&article_id=9

More succinct: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/dechronification/ benefits.html

MY PLANS:

When Dechronification (likely to be referred to colloquially as "Age-Reversion Therapy") comes along for a reasonable price, I will revert down to 15. That is of course, if an age-reversion device cannot edit my height (6'0" with shoes on.)

Then I suppose once A.R.T. becomes advanced enough to also change our heights, I will revert down to perhaps 7 1/2.

I expect this clinically immortalizing medical advance to arrive by my retirement years (still in college at present) so retirement will be the best time to be a kid again. (If A.R.T. arrives while I'm still working, I suppose I'll revert to 20 so that co-workers and etc. will still take me seriously.)

There comes the legal red tape of needing to submit birth certificates to enroll in real schools, so that probably won't be an option for a dechron (age-revertee), but holodecks and other forms of immersive virtual reality will allow for digital schools that feel every bit like the real deal, and the multiplayer environment will have you other age-revertees for your classmates.

(Remember though, as goes without saying, only your body reverts. Your mind keeps the accumulations of all your life experiences.)

Now, what are YOUR plans for when Age-Reversion Therapy comes along? How old do you plan to revert to, and why? What plans do you have for once you've reverted?


(Original post: http://www.kurzweilai.net/mindx/show_thread.php?rootID=173433#id173433)

When robots take unskilled jobs, many will be unemployed. HERE IS HOW TO PREVENT THAT:

This time, I will be succinct unlike before.

Give the unskilled workers age-reversion therapy ("Dechronification," according to Robert Freitas.)

Once they are children (or young teens) again, put them back in school. Once they excel in aptitude tests, place them in a higher school of their choice.

There will be no Luddite unemployment problem because we will then have the means to re-educate & retrain anybody in the skills needed to work unautomatable jobs.

If nobody is willing to adopt adults going through a physical second childhood, orphanages can take them. Or, their SSI will allow them to live on their own if eligible.

(This post is a re-tell of my original post at KurzweilAI.net)