Comments on: Aubrey de Grey at Stanford

By: Mike Linksvayer

Mike Linksvayer — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:23:10 +0000

Howard, yeah, I left a comment there already.

By: Howard

Howard — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:35:42 +0000

Robin Hanson also wants prognosis markets for this, http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/11/serious-unconve.html

By: Mike Linksvayer » Calorie Restriction

Mike Linksvayer » Calorie Restriction — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 03:31:37 +0000

[...] Better yet, ignore all of the above and contribute to the real fight against aging — from December 2005: Excepting the very laws of nature (see arch anarchy), aging and its resulting suffering and death is the greatest oppressor of humanity. As far as I know Aubrey de Grey’s Methuselah Mouse Prize/Foundation is the only organization making a direct assault on aging, so I advise giving generously. Fight Aging! is the place to watch for new anti-aging philanthropy. [...]

By: Mike Linksvayer » Calorie Restriction Conference IV, part 1

Mike Linksvayer » Calorie Restriction Conference IV, part 1 — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 08:31:33 +0000

[...] Aubrey de Grey suggested that the CR effect is mostly absolute and will not effectively scale for long lived organisms due to famines lasting a similar amount of time for organisms regardless of lifespan, resulting in only two or three years’ increase in life span for CR’d humans. I highly doubt multi-decade famines never happen, though perhaps they do not occur often enough to favor genes conferring equivalent life extension. Certainly the CR effect is much greater proportionately in shorter lived organisms — de Grey cited examples ranging from several hundred percent for C. elegans to a 40% for some mice to a few percent for Okinawans. He also spoke a bit about SENS, about which I’ve written previously. [...]

By: Mike Linksvayer » MPrize impact predictions

Mike Linksvayer » MPrize impact predictions — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 04:46:50 +0000

[...] Last June I wrote about Methuselah Mouse Prize related prediction market claims and suggested that claims conditioned on MPrize fundraising goals would be interesting. I just noticed that Mprize.org makes predictions of its own via its ill-explained The Life Line Equation calculator. [...]

By: Mike Linksvayer » Blog Archive » Outsourcing charity … to Wikipedia

Fri, 30 Dec 2005 21:08:20 +0000

[...] Excepting the very laws of nature (see arch anarchy), aging and its resulting suffering and death is the greatest oppressor of humanity. As far as I know Aubrey de Grey’s Methuselah Mouse Prize/Foundation is the only organization making a direct assault on aging, so I advise giving generously. Fight Aging! is the place to watch for new anti-aging philanthropy. [...]

By: Michael Yamashita

Michael Yamashita — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:32:36 +0000

Mike,

Thank you so much for your excellent review of Aubrey’s Stanford event.

I wanted to bring everyone’s attention to the controversy brewing over MIT Tech Review’s challenge to the MPrize. Here they want to give Dr. de Grey’s SENS proposal a proper hearing. So far they had invited Dr. Cynthia Kenyon, another leading light in the anti-aging community, but alas she declined, citing that she was unable to offer a proper critique. For the link, go here:

http://pontin.trblogs.com/archives/2005/05/cynthia_kenyon_1.html

Note that the Methuselah Foundation is offering a $5000US honorarium to help defray the expenses for the biogerontologist that Technology Review selects.