Are You Trying to Live Longer?

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You can do a lot of things that could potentially make you live longer, but would make you miserable in the short term. I've met some of these er calory restriction people. They don't look like happy people to me. It's just whether you want to put yourself through it. Maybe in the shortterm it will tweak a few byo markets that would suggest you might live longer. But er in the long term, you might be doing domage somewhere else inyour bodyor you might be a yor ruin your consciense in another way. And also, you can easily make your life extremely miserable chasing immortality itsit's very easy to do.

Shermer and Ward discuss: religious immortality • Church of Perpetual Life in Florida • what it means to live forever • why lives have doubled in length the past century • Stein’s Law: things that can’t go on forever won’t • Why do we age and die? • how to live to 100, 1000, 10,000 years • escape velocity to reach immortality • Aubrey de Grey’s program • tech billionaires programs • transhumanists/extropians • diet, exercise, supplements, stem cells, telomeres, and other aging hacks • Ray Kurzweil • cryonics • nanotechnology • brain preservation • mind uploading and digital immortality • Ernest Becker and Terror Management Theory

Peter Ward is a British business and technology reporter whose reporting has taken him across the globe. Reporting from Dubai, he covered the energy sector in the Middle East before earning a degree in business journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. His writing has appeared in Wired, The Atlantic, The Economist, GQ, BBC Science Focus, and Newsweek.