Aw I'm so glad!

I tried the beta version recently, and it really does work. Pretty incredible.

I'm happy to hear that you enjoyed!

Author here: thanks! Added these.

Author here: great point, I updated the post

Author here. Thanks! I added a couple of these.

Author here. This is a great point. I'll add the non-obvious DIY options to the list. They're just as important.

It's true money can buy a lot of them, but you can barter too. E.g. make a deal with your housemate to clean the house if they'll do a few hours research for you.

So you have to spend/trade something, but (for me) it's harder to think of what's worth spending/trading for. Hence the post.

Also shoutout to some great critiques in the comments here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KdXvXszWEHPMzfFNK/how-should...

> How should we pursue human longevity?

>> whole point of the piece being to NOT discuss the arguments for/against longevity, basically all the comments are about that.

Step one: Learn to Weaponized Autism better?

I'd still be working on a technology that allows longevity to be explored more at different levels. Why do we not have a clearer way forward? Why are Instagramers not pushing what we have more? Why is there not more money in this? Why was it so hard for me to buy metformin illicitly on the internet?

You can’t cure yourself of aging with some pills from the dark web.

You opened your post by baiting it. What did you expect?

Haha I dunno some kind of HN Vienna Circle to just assemble and make a bunch of great points

First of all, I'm thrilled someone looked at the footnotes - thanks :)

I was flippant about the arguments against longevity only because other authors (linked in the appendix) have done such a thorough job of making the case already. The goal of this piece was to help push the longevity discussion past that a bit.

Completely agree that the arguments against longevity should be taken seriously. I just happen to think they're wrong.

Thanks, I skimmed those references and didn’t find anything convincing, but I’ll give it a more careful read later. I think a rigorous (doesn’t necessarily mean quantitative or in terms of utility) argument for longevity research would be very interesting to read — especially something that digs into each of those assumptions seriously.

Sometimes your post focuses on one thing and the HN discussion finds another aspect more pressing :-)