The premise of this article seems to be that drugs that can increase lifespan indefinitely exist but all of the studies you cite are in yeast or mice, and I suspect they’re all looking at endpoints that don’t actually map to living forever with no side effects (like making some marker look better without increasing lifespan, or dying of cancer instead of some other aging-related cause of death).
The societal concerns also seem overblown and straightforward to solve in market economies. We get new drugs all the time and they don’t cause a collapse of society, even though a lot of people don’t understand that drug research costs money; and if no one wants to do menial labor, we’ll just have to pay more until someone does (or use robots for that).
I have attempted to provide useful studies, but the main premise /is/ that the medications exist and also that we should think long and hard about how to impliment solutions that enable us to use them. For example there is a black market trade in Everolimus for life-extension. The arguments that the rich would use these drugs is fair, but why do you assume we would notice until they have a monopoly, they haven’t been available for more than a decade really. I couldn’t find the source so I didnt want to include it, but for example i remember seeing that Joe Biden was treated with Rapamycin for Covid.
The quotes by David Sinclair from the Star Talk Posdcast where he says his students are comfortable dialing up and down the age of mice, and that its working in dogs and monkeys too, that he’s working on putting it in pill form. They all suggest a reason for the rest of content of this article to be discussed. I’m guessing that relying on there being a paper might not be the best way to prepare, because given infomation wars they may not ever be published. I’m hoping that it will be discussed, because otherwise many people may die needlessly, because everyone waited until it was a sensation, and there will be too much desperation and war or collapse because of the percieved inequality.
The existance of AI Drug Discovery and Quantum Molecular Modelling, will probably mean there is a solution sooner rather than later and we forget often about the exponential nature of recent science. I’m open for suggestions on how to edit the article.
The premise of this article seems to be that drugs that can increase lifespan indefinitely exist but all of the studies you cite are in yeast or mice, and I suspect they’re all looking at endpoints that don’t actually map to living forever with no side effects (like making some marker look better without increasing lifespan, or dying of cancer instead of some other aging-related cause of death).
The societal concerns also seem overblown and straightforward to solve in market economies. We get new drugs all the time and they don’t cause a collapse of society, even though a lot of people don’t understand that drug research costs money; and if no one wants to do menial labor, we’ll just have to pay more until someone does (or use robots for that).
I have attempted to provide useful studies, but the main premise /is/ that the medications exist and also that we should think long and hard about how to impliment solutions that enable us to use them. For example there is a black market trade in Everolimus for life-extension. The arguments that the rich would use these drugs is fair, but why do you assume we would notice until they have a monopoly, they haven’t been available for more than a decade really. I couldn’t find the source so I didnt want to include it, but for example i remember seeing that Joe Biden was treated with Rapamycin for Covid.
The quotes by David Sinclair from the Star Talk Posdcast where he says his students are comfortable dialing up and down the age of mice, and that its working in dogs and monkeys too, that he’s working on putting it in pill form. They all suggest a reason for the rest of content of this article to be discussed. I’m guessing that relying on there being a paper might not be the best way to prepare, because given infomation wars they may not ever be published. I’m hoping that it will be discussed, because otherwise many people may die needlessly, because everyone waited until it was a sensation, and there will be too much desperation and war or collapse because of the percieved inequality.
The existance of AI Drug Discovery and Quantum Molecular Modelling, will probably mean there is a solution sooner rather than later and we forget often about the exponential nature of recent science. I’m open for suggestions on how to edit the article.
Rapamycin costs $35 https://www.goodrx.com/sirolimus