As far as I understood SENS position, it’s: Approaches like getting a few substances that act on a few pathways might add a few years of life but they won’t provide long-term immortality.
Do you think it’s different and that you actually have different assumptions about the amount of life-years that can be gained by a few of the substances that you might test?
Don’t know what Sarah’s take is, but I can easily see a position like “if you want to keep as many people alive as are currently alive, you want both long-term immortality getting researched, and short-term immortality getting researched (esp if the latter is easier), to keep more people around until the longterm immortality”
Sarah wrote “The SENS position, as I understand, is that this won’t work.” and sounds to me like the disagreement isn’t just about short-term and long-term solutions where it makes sense to fund both.
As far as I understood SENS position, it’s: Approaches like getting a few substances that act on a few pathways might add a few years of life but they won’t provide long-term immortality.
Do you think it’s different and that you actually have different assumptions about the amount of life-years that can be gained by a few of the substances that you might test?
Don’t know what Sarah’s take is, but I can easily see a position like “if you want to keep as many people alive as are currently alive, you want both long-term immortality getting researched, and short-term immortality getting researched (esp if the latter is easier), to keep more people around until the longterm immortality”
Yep, that is my position.
(I’ve talked a bunch with Aubrey de Grey and he is very much supportive of the LRI’s program. We’re complements, not substitutes.)
Sarah wrote “The SENS position, as I understand, is that this won’t work.” and sounds to me like the disagreement isn’t just about short-term and long-term solutions where it makes sense to fund both.
I’m a little more optimistic about calorie restriction mimetics than Aubrey, but I think everybody sensible has pretty low confidence about this.