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April 3, 2006
Life-Extension
People keep asking me why Aubrey de Grey is attending the CR Conference. "Is he going to debate?" they ask. "Has he had a conversion experience?" Lots of people know that Aubrey doesn't practice CR himself, and that he doesn't think it will cause the kind of slowing of aging in humans that we hope it will.
Unless I am gravely mistaken, Aubrey is coming to the conference to share his presentation on the SENS platform, a series of interventions that could, if researchers would actually pursue them, lead to reversal of biological aging. People at the CR Conference are, as a rule, not just interested in restricting calories. We're there because we're interested in living much longer, much healthier than our neighbors. While we've determined that CR is the only method available for doing that *right now*, we're very interested in other methods for extending healthy life that might become available in the future. We might enjoy the short term benefits of CR: never getting sick, having a body that looks and feels great, being able to fit twelve people at a table that seats six. But we're after the long term, and we want to hear about anything that might help us get there in one live piece.
Mostly I'm interested in hanging out with Aubrey because he's one of the most fun people I've ever met. Here's my question: who's in charge of picking up the beer?
Posted by april at April 3, 2006 6:23 AM