Simple humanism

Is it available for students with bioinformatics background (no wet lab experience)?

Is it a rational decision to bet everything on a super-strong AI that may not appear in the next few decades? Can we count as transhumanists those who bring anti-vaxxers to power and remain silent when spending on basic science is cut?

He's choosing to optimise his health because he believes: the coming super-strong AI will solve all his problems. But will Americans like this solution?

Why does this happen? Perhaps the reason for this passivity is the same as Brian Johnson's. Brian doesn't actually invest his money not because he thinks he can rejuvenate himself with existing genetic therapies with unproven efficacy.

But they either can't get their way on increasing spending on academic research, or they don't want to, and are themselves investing less than 5% of their wealth in the field.

Elon Musk himself believes that ‘people shouldn't live too long’ and ‘we already have a serious problem with gerontocracy’. There are indeed people on Trump's team who want to live longer

But in reality, they promise to fight the food business and cut spending on that very life extension. This paradox is resolved by the non-monolithic nature of the Republican elite and their competition with each other

Paradoxically, the new Republicans have created an image of themselves as techno-optimists, willing to transfuse themselves with the blood of babies for rejuvenation and fund the most radical scientific projects to extend life.

So you wish me death, right? Don't you think it is unethical to wish death to someone who did nothing wrong to you?

Well, it is still ambiguous. Anyway, "anti-aging" guy in reality sells snake oil instead of financing aging biology research or advocating for it politically.

Do you want everyone to die from aging, including your and mine closed ones?

Why?

This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates.

No, there will be novel research in ARPA-H:

www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/16/1...

Did you really vote for them or have it been sarcastic?

Yes, defeating aging may bring new problems - overpopulation, inequality, or boredom. But all of these problems are solvable as long as you and your loved ones are alive. Don't rely on your descendants, they won't thank you for your “heroic” death.

So what should we die for? For our children? What child would say they want their parents to die if they were healthy? And what parent would want the same for their children?

The death of each of us from old age will not bring us any closer to solving the climate crisis, it won't stop wars, it will not reduce inequality, it won't defeat poverty and hunger.

Today, selection pressure on humanity is weaker than ever before - we are curing previously untreatable genetic diseases and adapting to changing climatic conditions through technology.

Evolution is not interested in the fate of mantis males devoured by females after mating. However, South African mantises resist their fate and sometimes successfully escape after mating.

Human life is reduced to the function of reproduction, albeit an informational one. Neither social nor biological evolution is an absolute good, and as soon as we begin to place them above human life, we risk slipping into the inhumanity of Social Darwinism, which proclaims the right of the fittest.

The evolutionary argument is by no means the best-known objection to anti-aging, but it most clearly denies the value of individual life in favor not even of humanity, but of some abstract “evolution” - for which the lives of not only each of us, but all of us together, can be sacrificed.

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill oneself (*Albert Camus)

Statistician and author of the term “Black Swan” Nicholas Taleb condemned the fight against aging:

Progress in biomedical technology is happening despite crises. The future will come, it is in our power to bring it closer and make it accessible to all.

We are a democratic transhumanist media about the most important - life and death. Life is our moral compass, and we believe it is important to reduce suffering and mortality from all causes, including age-related diseases. Investment in aging research is necessary to increase life expectancy.