I have never understood how can we, in the same breath, admit the horrifying death that await us all, and also parrot that Gilgamesh story or the like about how futile is to resist. Sure, the blood of the virgins doesn't work, but now we have incredibly good science and technology. For God's sake, we even have enough compute to run monstrous language models; I have an inkling that kind of compute would go a long way on simulating cellular processes. Shouldn't we all[1] just go a bit crazy and start trying to prevent our little, chaotic sacks of bio-molecules from going amok?<p>[^1]:"All", as opposed to just scientists and clinicians.