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Links
The organisations listed below are working actively to expedite the defeat
of human aging by rationally-designed biotechnology. Not included here are organisations with more modest life-extension or health-extension goals,
but no belittling of such organisations' work is implied.
Aeiveos
Alcor Life Extension Foundation
Atilla Csordas's blog
Betterhumans
BioGerontologi.se (in Swedish)
Biomind LLC
Centenarian Species and Rockfish project
Chris Patil's blog
ConsciousnessLink: Stay Alive!
Cryonics Institute
David Lenssen's anti-ageing portal
Eternal Youth blog
Extropy Institute
Fight Aging
Foresight Institute
Immortality Institute
Joao Magalhaes's website
Juvensa
LA Gerontology Research Group
La Science contre le Vieillissement (en français)
Legendary Pharmaceuticals
Leonid and Natalia Gavrilov's website
Lifeboat Foundation
Life Extension Foundation
lifeunleashed
Live Much Longer
Longevity First
Longevity Meme
Machines Like Us
Maximum Life Foundation
Objectif Longevité
Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Quest for Wisdom: A Practical Wellness Guide
Supercentenarian Research Foundation
TransVio Technology Ventures
World Transhumanist Association
And finally:
Calorie Restriction Society
Calorie restriction certainly won't give us negligible senescence, and
there is a range of opinion (within which I an on the pessimistic side,
as described in detail here) as to whether it
will even give as much as a decade to those of us who already live and
eat broadly as our mothers told us to. But there are three big reasons
why the CR Society nevertheless deserves inclusion on this page despite
the restriction mentioned at the top.
The first is that even I don't
think that CR will have zero effect on lifespan, and for those
of us on the cusp, who may or may not live long enough to benefit from
the first-generation human rejuvenation therapies and thereby achieve life extension escape velocity, every year improves
our odds of making that cut quite a bit -- and of course we don't know
who's on the cusp, because we don't know how soon those therapies will
arrive. CRers know this, and for a lot of them it's the reason they are
doing CR in the first place.
The second reason is that a lot of people
in the CR Society are very knowledgeable about the biology of aging and
are doing a great deal to spread the word that aging is becoming less
inevitable by the day; we need more of this activism if we're to shake
people out of their evidently comfortable prevailing fatalism.
But the
third, and possibly the most significant, reason why I'm listing the CR
Society here is that CR practitioners set, in my view, a uniquely
clear example to the rest of us to have a sense of proportion about the
value of life. Even though the difficulty of doing CR is (so I'm told)
often a lot less than one might presume, it sure can't be easy living
with that degree of discipline. But one's life is worth it -- to oneself
and to one's loved ones. There are plenty of useful ways to help the
SENS effort, some of which are listed here, and
many of those also take a certain amount of discipline and sacrifice --
not least the bit about not letting people change the subject when they
realise they don't have solid arguments against curing aging. So, if
you're thinking about what you can do for the SENS effort and you find
yourself wondering whether the effort is acceptable, think of those who
are practicing CR and ask yourself whether if they can be that focused,
you can't too.
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