Reverse Aging by 2029 – Finally Becoming Believable?

Dear Future Centenarian,

Last Friday energized me for almost three days… and counting.

Dr. Aubrey de Grey was in Los Angeles, and we cosponsored a Longevity Workshop. Of course Aubrey spoke brilliantly about the Methuselah Foundation and SENS and how it will reverse aging. www.sens.org

Dr. Stephen Coles opened the workshop with a Gerontology Research Group presentation. See www.grg.org for some fascinating life extension info.

The eminent evolutionary biologist Dr. Michael Rose followed Aubrey with a broad overview of how his 30 years of research is finally paying off in diagnostic tools and nutraceuticals that promise to have a huge impact on aging in the very near future. www.biology.ucr.edu/irpee/index

Then I chipped in by describing Maximum Life Foundation’s strategy to reverse aging in 21 years.

Finally, we had a lively panel discussion which included Peter Voss. Peter founded and manages Adaptive AI. See www.adaptiveai.com. Adaptive AI is aggressively pursuing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Once developed. Imagine the positive impact AGI, or machines with human level thinking abilities would have on life extension research!

So why am I so pumped up over info that you would think is old hat to me? Simply because just being around committed positive life extensionists supercharges me. And I don’t just mean the presenters. I mean people like Bruce Klein, founder of the Immortality Institute www.imminst.org and his wife Susan who spent so much time organizing this event. Bruce now works with Ben Goertzel in another AGI company called Novamente www.novamente.net. And I especially mean the enthusiastic audience, nearly 100% devoted to the prospect of indefinite youthful lifespans.

Afterwards, the speakers and organizers met for a dinner/social function hosted by super nice guy Elon Musk. Elon co-founded PayPal. His former partner, Peter Thiel, donated $500,000 to the Methuselah Foundation and ledged $3 million.

Actually, I’ve been energized for over two weeks. You almost always get positive feedback when you preach to the choir. No endless questions regarding what we’re going to do with all the people or how unnatural this is, etc. But a couple of weeks ago, I spoke to about 700 small business owners at a marketing conference. My topic was supposed to be the philosophy of certain success principals, but I spent about as much time on extreme life extension. Five years ago, an uninitiated audience like this would have thought I was a fruitcake. But of the 150 or so people who approached me afterwards, over half were as interested in the prospect of open ended lifespans as they were about marketing and business success.

Exhilarating!

There’s more good stuff, but I’ll save it for later.