Antimortality is an online forum and community for those, who refuse to sign the consent for aging and death as a desired outcome.

We use reason, science and action to cooperate on reduction of mortality of all causes for every human on the planet. And, being honest, for pets too.

We write here because movement needs memory, arguments, maps. We need places where confused newcomer can become useful faster, and where useful people can stop rediscovering same ideas alone.

We need this forum so each day we can act against death more and more efficiently.

If you are interested to know why this forum exists and why we need something separate from LessWrong, Effective Altruism, X, private Slacks, local chats and occasional camps - start with Why Antimortality Should Not Exist.

The Home

The idea is old: death is not a sacred law, but an ultimate evil, that can be addressed technically, medically and socially.

Versions of this idea have reappeared again and again:

• Francis Bacon in 1620s treated life extension as a legitimate object of experimental natural philosophy. He even pushed the work forward because of its “extreme profit and importance”, saying delay itself was costly. This is not yet “abolish death,” but it is an important transition: longevity becomes a scientific research program, not alchemy, prayer, or myth.
• Later the idea was taken by Metchnikoff, who identified three chief evils that hang over humanity: disease, old age, and death and introduced the term “gerontology”.
• Later in Nikolai Fedorov’s Cosmism ideas, in transhumanism, in immortalism, but also in nearly every biological lab or biotech startup on Earth.

The problem is that the idea keeps reinventing itself without enough memory. Instead of one hundred people making one hundred disconnected explainers, we can build shared texts that improve over time. Let's make the idea to persist and help it to obtain a shape, by building the consensus here and transmitting it among everyone, who refuses to die without giving a fight to death.

This is a place to write essays, comment on essays, chain essays together, link arguments, improve old posts, challenge weak claims, canonize useful texts, and build something like a shared intellectual memory for the refusal of death.

We highly recommend you to read essays, and leave the comment after each essay that you've read, and write your own essays to make our philosophy stronger.

The Vibe

Here is not a cult of optimism, not a cult of hype and not a place to surrender.

A place where people can disagree about almost everything, as long as they agree that:

1. Death from preventable causes is bad
2. Humanity should take this problem as a serious and urgenly
3. People who refuse death should coordinate instead of staying fragmented

That is enough to begin.

Hint! Read the Forum Rules, before you craft and post a text here!

The View

Antimortality exists to make the whole field visible at once. A geroscientist, cryonicist, sideloader, neuroscientist, doctor, patient, investor, philosopher, engineer, policy person, and student should be able to recognize that they are not working on unrelated islands.

The Gate

Most people who are sympathetic to life extension do not know what to do next. They may like the idea, but they do not yet have an identity, a map, a community, or a path from sympathy to contribution.

This forum also exists to help any newcomer from any place on Earth to self-onboard and quickly understand the full state-of-the-art in the field: the philosophy, the science, the technologies, the policies, the organizations, the open problems, the traps, the live hypothesis and the possible roles they can play.

Antimortality should help to convert sympathy into identity and action.

The Plan

Antimortality exists to canonize demands to governments and institutions. If aging kills almost everyone, then policy should not treat it as a niche hobby.

The Ladder

People start from something small. That is fine. The important thing is that there is a next step.

The ladder looks something like this:

1. Get a link from someone.
2. Upvote and leave a comment to some text.
3. 1. Hint! You can start with upvoting and commenting this post.
3. Read the basic texts.
4. 1. Hint! Start from Alexey Turchin's Why We Should Use Rationality When We Think About Life
4. Ask a real question.
5. Share one useful post with someone, who will benefit from it.
6. Read the forum rules
7. Write your first essay.
8. 1. Hint! Start from publishing your story in #Intros or mention someone, who died in #The Pantheon
8. Improve a canonical page.
9. Donate to something worth funding.
10. Take action
11. 1. Explain the problem to one more person.
    2. Join an organization
    3. Apply to a company or lab.
    4. Start a local club.
    5. Become an opinion leader
    6. Run a course in aging biology or some other lifesaving idea
    7. Convince donors to join
    8. Advocate for a policy
    9. Build a tool, a company or a lab
11. Help someone else climb the ladder faster.

Why Antimortality?

Because the word names the direction. First comes refusal. Then comes orientation. And then comes the action. Also, because Antimortality does not mean certainty of victory.