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Jeff Bezos is looking to defy death – this is what we know about the science of ageing

Jeff Bezos is on a mission to conquer ageing. He has just recruited Hal Barron from GlaxoSmithKline to help lead Altos Labs, the ambitious new anti-ageing company with billions of investment. So what does science really say about this? Could we beat ageing?
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Of course, nobody knows whether Bezos’s company can succeed in helping extend the human lifespan. But what is clear is that by studying ageing, exciting new discoveries are bound to emerge.

Jeff Bezos is looking to defy death – this is what we know about the science of ageing

Amazon founder is funding a biotechnology startup that is looking to reverse ageing.

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The last thing we need are people like bezos and the ultra wealthy to live even longer...

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We need to go the ancient China route and convince them ingesting jade and mercury will make them immortal.

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Exactly.

If there's ONE justice in this world... is that we all die.

We dont want the 0.1% to live forever. No no no.

Bezos. When your time comes. You die. Like everyone else.

His wealth, if left to compound for 300 years, would be a 9 with 23 zeroes behind it.

$900,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Whats worse than Jeff Bezos? An immortal Jeff Bezos.

Holy... Almost everyone out here are so against the reversing aging. All of you really want to be old, crippled, dimed, congitive declined? Like you really want to suffer and die? Just because someone is wealthy and you're not?

For me everyone should benefit from it and possible be using it. The aging and death are both worth suffering the people can witness. Ultimetly we should work towards to stop those.

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Nah 100 years and I'll be sick of this ****.

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We can't even some **** healthcare now. Do you really think these rich **** are gonna share any breakthroughs with the masses or people that don't have money?

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No I want to die when I get to that point. Not linger in it. I don’t see death as the boogie man like most people do though.

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Reading these replies genuinely disgusted the **** out of me. People are so overrun with envy in their pathetic, weak lives that they would doom themselves & all of humanity if it meant they could feel a sense of moral high-ground.

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Doom all of humanity? It's just death and aging, literally the most natural aspect of life. Just because you're more terrified of it than we are doesn't mean that we are **** in the head. Lol.

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Lmao worship power more

What's interesting is that if natural death at ~80-100 stops being a thing, it will completely upheave modern moral and social systems, just as the industrial revolution did. Especially if everyone gets to share in this, not just the rich. Inevitable IMO. Every rich people technology diffuses downwards over time, until even poor people have it. This applies to everything from commercial air travel to medicines.

So many institutions have natural and inevitable death at this age as a basic assumption. Political, social and economic institutions all depend on this assumption.

Imagine if people started living til 400-800 instead of around 80-100.

Childbearing will be transformed. It currently takes 25% of lifespan to reach adulthood. Imagine if only 3% of your lifespan was childhood. Childhood will become a tiny part of life. The economy and social structure will be transformed - few teachers for kids, many for adult learning. The nuclear family structure will be demolished, as minors no longer occupy a central position in the family structure.

Copyright lasts up to xx years after the author's death. This does not work if authors expect to live for 800 years.

Life imprisonment become utterly impracticable. Morality aside, the government cannot even financially afford to keep large numbers of people in prison for 500 years each.

The world of uneducated vs educated labour will be massively shaken. It will be worthwhile to spend 4 years studying to get even as little as a 5% increase in lifetime salary.

People will have the ability to have multiple fully-skilled, fully-developed careers throughout life. You could attain extremely high proficiency in many, many fields in a 500-year working lifespan.

Views towards environmental sustainability will be massively shifted. The average voting adult has only 30 more years to live. If it were instead 300 more years to live, people would be a lot less nonchalant about climate change and environmental desteuction.

Everything we currently know about society will be transformed into a new world.

I suggest y'all stop speculating and have a look at the SENS Foundation.

Those people have been doing the grunt work on aging for decades now.

Aubrey de Grey is quite optimistic about it.

Pitch in. Longer lives are achievable, and better.