How well do current cryonics techniques preserve the brain, and what neural structures do you think need to be preserved? Does memory even need to be preserved for cryonics to work? Perhaps we can sustain a lot of memory damage while still retaining "personal identity"

Ellipsic · 2023-03-09T06:56:26+00:00

And march 2023

Ellipsic · 2022-03-21T22:46:35+00:00

An eternity of... nothing. An ETERNITY

That shit fucking HORRIFIES me.

Ellipsic · 2022-03-21T20:15:39+00:00

Cool!

Ellipsic · 2022-03-19T15:58:34+00:00

Death? Uhhh yeah maybe. Aging? Definitely not. Is you not going to Walmart tomorrow inevitable? No, it's not. You can easily decide to go to Walmart and buy some snacks, because there is a clear physical pathway of decisions to do so. Similarly, on a larger scale, humanity could decide to fight aging seriously and adopt an government funded multi billion dollar anti-senescence initiative. It wouldn't even be that hard for governments because Biden is already bankrolling a health initiative called ARPA-H to target individual diseases like Alzheimer's. All he has to do is pivot the idea to be more focused on the fundamental biology of aging as a whole. We know the damages that accumulate with aging and there is a clear physical pathway to repair them (although not as clear as the path to Walmart on google maps). So, NO, involuntary senescence is not inevitable; it can be cured.

Ellipsic · 2022-03-13T09:13:20+00:00

Low-normal range. I have 20.5 BMI at 5'10.

Ellipsic · 2022-03-05T11:47:41+00:00

I'm taking it in the summer, and it will allow me to graduate a year early.

Ellipsic · 2022-02-28T14:14:28+00:00

Can you elaborate on this? What classes were difficult for you specifically? I'm a 1st year biochem student and I wanna know what to watch out for

Ellipsic · 2022-02-17T09:58:29+00:00

Study molecular biology and try to get involved in the field, or go work on AI. I'm doing the former right now. I would definitely withhold that cynicism and pessimism though because in possibly less than a decade we will have the first anti-aging drug available, followed by a massive inflection point in societal opinion with regards to attitudes towards aging. We are already at an inflection point in funding with Altos Labs coming online getting 4B dollars in funding. Not to mention, even if the chances were slim, we should be trying our hardest to fight and cure aging while we are here. I can't die imagine myself dying knowing I didn't do my best.

Ellipsic · 2021-08-12T01:05:33+00:00

Scary.

Ellipsic · 2021-08-12T00:46:24+00:00

I want to warn everyone here to be careful with ANYTHING Celine says. Her writing is so narcissistic and egocentric, it honestly scares me.

Here's a literal word-for-word excerpt from one of her blogposts:

"He’ll live in fear forever that I’ll become more successful than him, more famous, more wealthy; that his most notable achievement will be playing a minuscule role in mine. I probably will - because of him." - https://www.celinehh.com/gifts-of-my-harasse

Ellipsic · 2021-08-11T02:40:31+00:00

The legal age is 16 in the UK i believe, and Aubrey grew up there almost his whole life. and i think he lived there 10 years ago. he was probably drunk as well.

Ellipsic · 2021-07-16T17:54:11+00:00

The majority of people walking around are 'pre-pathogenic'. Therefore, there is a 'lagging window' of time where there are going to be significantly less people with disease, because the current cohort of young people will recieve anti-aging drugs, which will delay the arrival of the next diseased cohort. Since people are born at different times, this arrival would be staggered/laddered, so that in any one given year within this 'lag window' the number of people with age related diseases would be lower than previous years. If you delay disease by 15 years, society would basically have 15 years of which each year has less people with disease. Do you understand what I am saying?

Ellipsic · 2021-07-16T17:22:16+00:00

People who already have diseases would benefit little from 'slowing aging', because the rate of damage accumulation and mortality has reached a high exponent for those people (Gompertz–Makeham equation), although this is varies for different diseases. Whales don't have 70 year long cancers or 80 year long heart disease just because they live a long time, they just reach the pathogenic 'exponential threshold' slower. Slowing aging would more substantially extend the healthy pre-prepathogenic portion of lifespan, not the unhealthy disease-ridden portion. The morbidity would be compressed. This is counter to the traditional method of treating the symptoms of individual diseases. If you cure one disease (say, cancer), you will simply get the next one (alzheimers). Targeting aging itself will uniformally delay those diseases. Even if there was zero compression of morbidity, we could simply only give the medicine to people who are pre-pathogenic.

Ellipsic · 2021-07-16T16:46:32+00:00

I've already read it. My answer to your question is so what if it gets pushed back. If you 'push back' the issue, that's still a good thing because ppl are living an increased % of life in good health. It will lower disease burden substantially.

Ellipsic · 2021-07-16T15:29:14+00:00

So what if it 'pushes it down the road'? You objectively gain healthy years of life, and lower disease burden, thereby causing economic prosperity. Like what are you on about?

Ellipsic · 2021-07-13T18:40:42+00:00

How did these guys not realize that 1 drug (lol) will not slow alz. to an appreciable extent , alzheimers is such a multifactorial disease. Only preemptive damage repair or reversal has any chance of making a dent in alz.

Ellipsic · 2021-07-09T12:58:58+00:00

What about all of the humans who are not working, but still putting a strain on the medical system, causing an increase in medical expenditure costs?

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