The success of Aubrey de Grey baffles me
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The success of Aubrey de Grey baffles me
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#2I think he, like many techno-utopians, provides something more valuable than truth: identity
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#3People want to live forever and there weren’t many people in this space when de Grey started.
I don’t think he’s a crank, but it is surprising that people invest in him.
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#4The actual news in this post: the SENS foundation has placed de Grey on indefinite leave following the allegations in the past few days: https://www.statnews.com/2021/08/11/anti-aging-research-pion...
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#5The more I read about this guy the more it reads like a cult leader rather than a scientist.
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#6There are many extremely potent geroprotective substances out there, either fixing oxidative damage (Skq1), thymus involution (thymalin), or telomeres shortening (Epitalon), or having state of the art anticarcinogenic potency (PNC-27), etc
The issue with Aubrey de Grey and other popular vulgarisator is that they are illiterate of the most potent research and hence do not promote it.
However despite their mediocrity, they do more good than harm by attracting more attention to the field with the highest utilitaristic ROI in the world.
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#7Nature hates this one trick which guarantees free unlimited lifetimes! Click here to read.
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#8Nature hates this one trick which guarantees free unlimited lifetimes! Click here to read.
I don't want to live forever. I do want to live a good 500+ years while having the option to end it at my pleasure sooner than that if desired.
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#9Nature hates this one trick which guarantees free unlimited lifetimes! Click here to read.
I think if you can live long enough in a healthy state, eventually you'd acquire enough wealth to change your circumstances (configuration?) however you want. I think that would add at least 50 years of novelty.
I tend to agree it probably would get tiring after a while, but I think the point is being able to go out on your own terms.
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#10He might be a crank but certainly not the usual sort, he solved a longstanding open problem in mathematics: https://www.quantamagazine.org/decades-old-graph-problem-yie...