Health above all: defeat aging, maximize human potential.
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Aging isn't a mystery anymore.
It's specific biological mechanisms we can measure, and for most of them, something that could address it exists.
What drives them, what slows them, who's building fixes, and what's blocking them?
On Monday we held the first lecture of Utrecht Longevity Society, and I'm happy to say I'm one of its co-founders.
What I liked most: a room full of people who all care about longevity, and the discussions we had about the societal side of it.
I'll share more about it soon.
Vladimir wrote down his view of the evening:
I'm on a night train from Utrecht to Rotterdam. I'm eating a sushi wrap and drinking an unnecessarily strong beer. I'm on this railway through space and good time, you know. An hour in the past I had attended a lecture of an evolutionary biologist who was kinda pro solving aging. He was lowkey like "Even if evolution caused aging it doesn't mean we shouldn't solve it" and was all that evolutionary biologist-kind of nice. It was 30 people (gosh what a tiny sect us longevity people are!) but 20-25 of them were very much pro radical life extension. Some came from a city a few hours away, some just study here in the university, 7% were parents of one of the organizers, 13% were russian-speaking; for most it was the first lecture about aging. It was so refreshing and at the same time so astonishingly, so grimly niche. An hour in the future my ride is over and I'm out in the world where the acceptance of aging is even more commonplace.
Living is good, dying is bad
Safe to say I didn't expect this much pushback on a statement that simple.
If we're actually going to achieve longevity, we might want to start taking care of the planet.
Imagine extending your lifespan to 150 just to spend the extra 70 years suffocating in 45°C heatwaves.
Listening to music with friends is a longevity protocol.
People still think optimizing for healthspan is limiting.
Preventative longevity is just about stacking habits that protect your biology early on.
Aging and death are not a moral solution to any problem.
If you think they are, you simply haven't spent enough time thinking about a better solution.
Quote from Ageless by Andrew Steele (@statto ).
Viewing biological decline as a fix for societal issues is just a lack of imagination.
We need better solutions.
Massive signal.
The next step: moving from chronic management to preventative protocols.
Longevity scales via proactive care.
Elon Musk acknowledging longevity is a massive win.
His platform instantly brings niche ideas into mainstream discourse.
To solve aging, we don't just need breakthroughs in labs. we need mass awareness, capital allocation, and public attention.
Visibility is the first step.
Solving aging and creating a clean, livable world should be humanity’s top priorities.
I’m working to soon make a dent by studying economics and longevity.
Aiming to identify key bottlenecks so we can collaborate and build solutions.