I don’t think SENS is one of the simple approaches Gwern was referring to in context. The simple approaches are things like turning off a genetically coded “mortality switch,” lengthening telomeres, calorie-restriction mimetics, or just getting tons of antioxidants in your diet. Here’s a recent Aubrey de Grey interview.
Gwern also makes a more general claim that aging is too complex for any simple solution to be plausible.
I don’t think SENS is one of the simple approaches Gwern was referring to in context. The simple approaches are things like turning off a genetically coded “mortality switch,” lengthening telomeres, calorie-restriction mimetics, or just getting tons of antioxidants in your diet. Here’s a recent Aubrey de Grey interview.