Longevity FAQ: A beginner's guide to longevity research
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Re: Longevity FAQ: A beginner's guide to longevity research
#2Peter Thiel once said something along the lines that nobody is against aging research, because in practice what you’re solving for are problems everybody wants cures for, like Alzheimer’s, cancer, Parkinson’s, etc.
I often think about that quote because aging is such an intractably hard problem, we’ve sort of collectively rationalized it as something “good”. You see it in many religious traditions. In the zeitgeist. That somehow death gives life meaning. Makes it good.
But I’ve never found anybody who thinks cancer is a good thing. Nobody sane at least.
I’ve thought for a while now that every philosophy problem is in some sense, just a health problem waiting to be solved.
Occasionally I think about the Bible too and the way Christ (regardless of your religious beliefs) upended this tradition of rationalizing death as good. There’s a line in the Bible that’s the shortest verse in the English version: “Jesus wept.” And he was weeping for Lazarus, a man who died (who he could bring back to life effortlessly); in some sense a true condemnation of death as evil. Something even a god would weep over.
I think about the future often too; the way immortality will finally be achieved. There’s so many complications when it comes to aging, and so much we don’t know about the human body, I wonder whether humans will be involved at all; whether machines will silently develop cures while our bodies lie in a metal tomb, explaining to us what happened afterwards in terms we can understand.
I think it’ll happen someday. But I don’t know if it’ll be a year or 100 years from now.
I certainly hope it’s soon. Some days I feel like I’m at the edge of an eternal history.
Re: Longevity FAQ: A beginner's guide to longevity research
#3Peter Thiel once said something along the lines that nobody is against aging research, because in practice what you’re solving for are problems everybody wants cures for, like Alzheimer’s, cancer, Parkinson’s, etc. I often think about that quote because aging is such an intractably hard problem, we’ve sort of collectively rationalized it as something “good”. You see it in many religious traditions. In the zeitgeist.…
It cant be solved yet as there isnt enough resources to go round for everyone.
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Re: Longevity FAQ: A beginner's guide to longevity research
#4As someone who follows life extension research closely: all the lifestyle stuff like "eating less" is useless. You can't rejuvenate an organism by changing the external inputs to its natural processes. It's half-measures at best.
Re: Longevity FAQ: A beginner's guide to longevity research
#5Peter Thiel once said something along the lines that nobody is against aging research, because in practice what you’re solving for are problems everybody wants cures for, like Alzheimer’s, cancer, Parkinson’s, etc. I often think about that quote because aging is such an intractably hard problem, we’ve sort of collectively rationalized it as something “good”. You see it in many religious traditions. In the zeitgeist.…
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Re: Longevity FAQ: A beginner's guide to longevity research
#6Peter Thiel once said something along the lines that nobody is against aging research, because in practice what you’re solving for are problems everybody wants cures for, like Alzheimer’s, cancer, Parkinson’s, etc. I often think about that quote because aging is such an intractably hard problem, we’ve sort of collectively rationalized it as something “good”. You see it in many religious traditions. In the zeitgeist.…
> intractably hard problem
Is it intractably hard? We already know how to 'rejuvenate' cells for a decade. The field did not receive a lot of attention however, partly because of misguided ethics concerns. COVID changed that attitude
Re: Longevity FAQ: A beginner's guide to longevity research
#7As someone who follows life extension research closely: all the lifestyle stuff like "eating less" is useless. You can't rejuvenate an organism by changing the external inputs to its natural processes. It's half-measures at best.
fasting does have something to do with longevity (in mice and other animals). Maybe not in humans but it's certainly a valid line of research
Re: Longevity FAQ: A beginner's guide to longevity research
#8As someone who follows life extension research closely: all the lifestyle stuff like "eating less" is useless. You can't rejuvenate an organism by changing the external inputs to its natural processes. It's half-measures at best.
fasting does have something to do with longevity (in mice and other animals). Maybe not in humans but it's certainly a valid line of research
What I'm saying is that it doesn't reverse aging, it merely slows it down, and not by much.
Re: Longevity FAQ: A beginner's guide to longevity research
#9Peter Thiel once said something along the lines that nobody is against aging research, because in practice what you’re solving for are problems everybody wants cures for, like Alzheimer’s, cancer, Parkinson’s, etc. I often think about that quote because aging is such an intractably hard problem, we’ve sort of collectively rationalized it as something “good”. You see it in many religious traditions. In the zeitgeist.…
you'd say I'm rationalizing it, but I do not believe that death is a problem to be solved
As I take it, that line of thought (that death is just a problem to be solved and that immortality is something to strive for) leads to solving death just before going on to "solve" childhood. Why do we have to be born ignorant of the world and must "waste" some 20 years learning about it (possibly more) before we can go on to be socially productive persons? another 'challenge' for medical science to "fix"...
no, no. I repeat myself, death is not a problem, immortality is nonesense. To percieve death as opposed to life is a consequence (IMO) of thinking with words and only with words; i.e. within language (and logic) these two seem opposite, but there're are ways to think beyond just the logical-linguistic.
Re: Longevity FAQ: A beginner's guide to longevity research
#10use verteporfin in combination with wounding. it works, even for hair loss.
thank me later.