

DeathlessDAO
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@deathlessDAO
Harnessing AI + decentralization to empower YOU with control of your health data (🤖+🤫)




You want to get your biological age tested. You search Google. 100 different tests. You pick a few. They all give you completely different numbers. Whom to trust? How about you trust no one. Take control with OpenAge. openAgeAI.com







"GrimAgeAA by contrast was associated with all outcome variables under investigation, except grip strength, and continued to be associated with 4 of them (walking speed, polypharmacy, Fried frailty score, and all-cause mortality) even in the full multivariable-adjusted models; a finding which implies that the GrimAge clock is tapping variation in the pace of aging that is not simply due to SEP and other lifestyle-related factors." academic.oup.com/biomedgerontol…



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What's standing between us and a cure for aging? The sheer, almost inhuman complexity of the problem. Let's try to get a handle on just how complex we're talking. How many questions do we actually need to answer to crack the aging problem? Just as a quick exercise, I looked into the protein elastin. By bouncing ideas off Gemini, I generated 127 questions in about 4 hours, and the AI kept suggesting more research paths. You could probably map out the entire elastin field with maybe 200 fairly broad questions. Now, maybe the secret to living to 150 is hidden in the answers to a handful of those. Or maybe not. Let's be honest, probably not. Okay, scale that up. There are roughly 4,000 genes linked to aging. Using the same logic, that translates to potentially 800,000 questions just covering the known aging-related genes. But genes are only about 2% of our DNA! Factor in active transposons, bioelectricity, countless chemical reactions, the microbiome, mitochondria, epigenetics, organ replacement, research methodologies... not to mention the broader questions around the fight against death itself: society, culture, education, funding. (Yes, even answering "how do we fund elastin research?" costs money). Suddenly, you're looking at a ballpark figure of maybe 10 million questions related to tackling aging and death. And here's the kicker: we have no idea which subset of these questions holds the key. So, what's our leverage against this complexity? AI. Artificial intelligence. AI can be crucial not just for helping formulate these questions, but also for generating hypotheses. Let's conservatively estimate 10 plausible hypotheses per question. Boom. Now we're facing 100 million hypotheses. Trying to test all of those experimentally would require resources on the scale of a quadrillion dollars. Are we stuck? No. Here’s the workaround: We can start processing this massive hypothesis space right now, computationally. We need to develop metrics – think complexity, interconnectedness, predictive value ("cooperability") – to rank them. We build a dynamic "hypothesis pyramid," pushing the most promising ideas to the top using various prediction methods (which themselves form a sort of methodological toolkit). Crucially, as we do this, the firehose of biological data only increases, meaning our predictive models will continuously get better. The core strategy is this: stay in silico (in the virtual space) for as long as possible. Leverage computational speeds millions of times faster than real-world lab work. By the time we need large-scale physical validation, lab automation will likely be far more advanced anyway. The beauty of this approach? We can start building it now. Even just the process of generating questions, mapping hypotheses, and developing predictive frameworks is valuable. It might seem abstract at first – "why just list questions?" – but it's essential groundwork for understanding how to actually deploy targeted AI agents in the fight against aging. I invite everyone interested to our event to come and discuss how we tackle this "wall of questions and hypotheses" in our quest for longer lives. lu.ma/369wo6vk


I see no other way to extend life than by changing our attitude towards the idea of immortality. Towards the very word itself, towards the desire to live forever, towards openly stating that death is unacceptable. We will achieve nothing if we don’t speak the truth, if we choose compromise, if we try to please those who don’t like us. Not wanting to die is normal. It’s the stance of a sensible, reasonable person. Seeing the prospects of immortality in technology is a rational view of the world. Striving to reduce the number of deaths at any cost is the truly humane position—and no other. Those among us who scold us and claim there’s another tactic—that we should tell people what they want to hear about health improvements—overlook the fact that this tactic has already been used for the past 40 years and it failed. Just show that supporters of immortality are very rational people: IT engineers, AI developers, individuals competent in many other areas. Right now, immortality has a weak brand. In fact, it has none. We need to distance ourselves from all sorts of dietary supplements and the desire to age gracefully. We need intellectual courage to tell ourselves and those around us what we are doing and why. For nothing less than survival!




Yesterday at Lifeforce Longevity Connect, @aubreydegrey made an important point. One of the reasons for the slow progress toward an anti-aging drug is that many smart people have shifted their focus to AI development. It might seem that AI holds the greatest promise for radical life extension, but for now, it’s a black hole for immortalism, where natural intelligence is getting absorbed. We need to resolve this strange contradiction. In my next presentation, I will suggest how we might achieve this.
