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They truly make a difference .. x.com/Enezator/statu…

Let's fight the real enemy of life and liberty, aging.

Jeremy Koenig had the tenacity to sit through some of my meanderings and even came up with some positive framings of my sometimes cynical positions. I am bullish on immortality and longevity.. just perhaps not for anyone alive today, so let's get busy! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/epi…

You want Longevity Research to accelerate? Stop talking, donate your blood! The BIG BioBank Study at the Buck Institute calls for everyone 18+ and able to visit the Buck for a full medical checkup buckinstitute.org/clinical-trials

@ZaneKoch6 bubbles produce the fertilizer and foundations to build on for the next bubble.

BRYAN JOHNSON IS A BUBBLE WAITING TO BURST, but that might be a good thing. I’ve been reading the book “Bubbles and the End of Stagnation,” which argues that many scientific and technological breakthrough’s of the last century (the Manhattan project, the Apollo mission, bitcoin, dot com explosion and implosion) were speculative bubbles, where over-investment and societal enthusiasm led to transformative advancements that would not have otherwise occurred. This view turns the typical narrative of bubbles as a negative phenomena on its head, instead positing that they play a crucial role in driving progress. One sentence book summary: yes, each bubble may burst and many will lose a lot, but the progress made during the bubble will be left behind, and that progress would not have been possible without such crazed zeal. I think that @bryan_johnson is, wittingly or unwittingly, creating just such a speculative bubble with his Don’t Die movement, which fulfills all the properties of bubbles that Hobart and Huber identify in their book: 1/Self-fulfilling prophecy (i.e. reality distortion field): Johnson’s claims are audacious—like the possibility of halting or reversing aging— yet they promote a reality where such ideas gain credibility and resources. By presenting his vision as inevitable, he helps to reshape societal expectations, which, in the best case, pulls forward investment and innovation in longevity. 2/FOMO & YOLO: If you don’t buy in to Don’t Die you will die, so don’t miss out. And you only live once, so don’t die. 3/Excessive risk taking and over-investment: Its hard to find something that Bryan does that isn’t risky and expensive; complete plasma replacement, 100+ pills a day, spending $2mil/year, follistatin gene therapy. 4/Definite optimism: “By following the blueprint plan [definite] I, and you, can live forever [optimism]”. 5/Strong social interactions between motivated and capable individuals: Don’t Die meetups, his social media presence, etc. The bull case: Bryan Johnson’s narrative of “if you survive until year X, technology and AI will be so advanced as to make you live forever” will set off a self-fulfilling process. This narrative will shift societal priorities and accelerate the demand for life extension technologies, which will in turn lead to the investment and research necessary to make his claim’s possible. The bear case: unfounded claims will inevitably go unsupported, tearing to shreds what little credibility the longevity field might’ve had, and putting us into a longevity dark age. In the process people will get hurt copying his “treatments.” So, which future timeline are we on? I honestly can’t make up my mind. I don’t think we’ll all live forever, but I do kinda think that the Don’t Die hype might do net good. What I know for sure is that the response I get when I tell people I do aging and longevity research has substantially changed in the last couple of years. I used to get blank stares, now I get “oh, like that millionaire on twitter with a blood boy?”. To me, it feels like the narrative fly-wheel is already spinning, the bubble is already forming, and something is going to happen.

@Bing69Bong420 @HumansNoContext As a bit of a fire starter in my youth I can attest to the fact that gas vapor flows out from the pile you poured it on and can ignite quite a ways away. Obviously this fella had no clue. Jail for stupidity? I think a rake and cleaning the forest would be a good punishment.

@HumansNoContext dry grass went up like gasoline, without gasoline

Straight to jail

Photographer Phil Thurston captured this wave.

Health is balance. When our biological systems can no longer maintain that balance is when we see disease. Resilience is the ability to spring back after a challenge to that balance. OpenCures is all about the restoration that PROSPR promises. arpa-h.gov/news-and-event…

A treasure trove of information about challenges of longevity and how empowering the consumer might solve this! interview with Kevin Perrott, CEO OpenCures interviewed by the Longecity.org community forum, Pioneers in life extension research & advocacy longecity.org/podcast/?name=… #podcastgen

Our dear friend @AMelhede is hiring at his Elata Biosciences elata.bio! The open roles are: Biotech Advisor Pharma Advisor Academia Advisor Maybe someone knows someone …

It doesn't necessarily need expensive, overhyped and criticized biological age tests to get the current status of your longevity. Good old VO2 max is actually a pretty good start. Nice article with simple explanation: nationalgeographic.com/science/articl…

@hybridathlete So what is your rank on the VO2max leaderboard then? biohackerdao.com/vo2-max-leader…

'AI and continuous data collection will drastically transform personal health, over the next 10 years' @dylanwenzlau, Founder & CEO Guava. Listen to the full space - x.com/m_goes_distanc…

How do we approach health and wellness? "Every time we looked at connecting consumers to their own health solutions, the answer was in their data." - Kevin Perrott (Founder of OpenCures).

If you have a deep burning desire to spit in the face of a biological decree that ourselves and our loved ones must all suffer, deteriorate, and die.. you may enjoy this event with others who seek ways to create a world where getting old doesn't have to mean getting sick.

but can a cat levitate like a dog?

@PhysInHistory .. and yet time is exactly the thing which seems to suck the life out of everyone.. which does not feel like an illusion at all.

People like us who believe in physics know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Time, in other words, he said, is an illusion. — A. Einstein (1879-1955)

Imagine a world where a drop of blood gives a full health picture. At OpenCures, we're creating an in silico model of human health by generating vast data. This lets us test millions of hypotheses in parallel, revolutionizing health.