Antimortality is a forum for serious cooperation against aging, death, and preventable loss of life. Standards are high because the problem is serious.
1. Core norm
Write and comment as if the future reader matters.
Ask yourself:
Does this make Antimortality more useful as shared memory and coordination infrastructure for people fighting death?
A contribution should help someone understand, decide, argue, coordinate, or act better. Do not waste attention.
2. Posts
A post should have a point.
Make clear:
what you claim
why it matters
what supports it
who it helps
what follows from it
Drafts, questions, personal stories, and speculation are welcome. Mark them honestly.
Do not present vibes as evidence.
3. Comments
Comments should improve the post or discussion.
Good comments respond to specific claims, quote exact lines, ask precise questions, add evidence, identify assumptions, or suggest concrete improvements.
Weak comments are generic agreement, generic disagreement, applause, sarcasm, status games, or drive-by cynicism.
If possible, comment on exact lines.
Disagreement is welcome. Laziness is not.
4. Criticism
Criticize claims, not people.
Good criticism is specific, explains the objection, separates “false”, “unsupported”, “unclear”, and “badly framed”, and gives the author a path to improve.
Be direct. Do not be casually cruel.
5. Evidence
Make evidential status clear, especially in biology, medicine, cryonics, brain preservation, AI, policy, and timelines.
Say whether something is evidence, speculation, anecdote, model, guess, or consensus.
Do not overstate. Do not cite papers you have not understood.
6. Medical and biological claims
Clarify evidence model, correlations vs causations, approved therapies vs experiments, personal protocol vs general recommendations.
Do not present dangerous or experimental interventions as simple advice.
A movement against death does not become stronger by lying to itself.
7. AI-generated content
AI may be used as an assistant. Low-effort AI-generated writing is not welcome. Ensure that you have read and understood and can argue about every line, that you post.
Not allowed: raw AI output, fake expertise, unchecked citations, unread paper summaries, generated comments. If AI materially shaped the post, disclose it.
Example:
AI use: I used ChatGPT to improve structure and grammar. The claims and final wording are mine.
For heavy use, include or summarize the prompt.
8. Responsibility
You are responsible for what you post.
If your name is on it, you vouch that you understand the claims, checked the important facts, are not misleading readers, and can answer serious objections.
If you cannot vouch for a claim, mark it clearly or remove it.
9. Promotion
Promotion must be useful.
Allowed: concrete announcements, hiring, funding requests, lessons learned, postmortems, specific calls for collaborators.
Not allowed: empty hype, repeated self-promotion, vague “join us” posts, marketing copy, fake urgency, engagement bait, or fundraising without enough detail.
Disclose conflicts of interest.
10. Personal stories and The Panethon
Personal stories are welcome.
Good personal posts explain what happened, what was learned, and what should change.
Obituaries and Pantheon posts should be serious.
Do not use someone’s death as cheap rhetoric.
11. Vibe
Preferred vibe: serious, clear, alive.
Not academic fog. Not startup hype. Not cultish certainty. Not doom performance. Not Twitter combat.
12. Moderation
Moderators may remove, downrank, or ask for edits on content that predictably damages the forum’s usefulness.
This includes spam, harassment, personal attacks, doxxing, threats, low-effort AI output, bad-faith behavior, irresponsible medical misinformation, empty promotion, and off-topic political fighting.
A forum can die from spam. It can also die from mediocre comments and vague posts.
AI use here: I used ChatGPT to work on these rules. We've refactored them together 2-5 times, until they became readable. I've read and sign under every word.
Antimortality is a forum for serious cooperation against aging, death, and preventable loss of life. Standards are high because the problem is serious.
1. Core norm
Write and comment as if the future reader matters.
Ask yourself:
A contribution should help someone understand, decide, argue, coordinate, or act better. Do not waste attention.
2. Posts
A post should have a point.
Make clear:
Drafts, questions, personal stories, and speculation are welcome. Mark them honestly.
Do not present vibes as evidence.
3. Comments
Comments should improve the post or discussion.
Good comments respond to specific claims, quote exact lines, ask precise questions, add evidence, identify assumptions, or suggest concrete improvements.
Weak comments are generic agreement, generic disagreement, applause, sarcasm, status games, or drive-by cynicism.
If possible, comment on exact lines.
Disagreement is welcome. Laziness is not.
4. Criticism
Criticize claims, not people.
Good criticism is specific, explains the objection, separates “false”, “unsupported”, “unclear”, and “badly framed”, and gives the author a path to improve.
Be direct. Do not be casually cruel.
5. Evidence
Make evidential status clear, especially in biology, medicine, cryonics, brain preservation, AI, policy, and timelines.
Say whether something is evidence, speculation, anecdote, model, guess, or consensus.
Do not overstate.
Do not cite papers you have not understood.
6. Medical and biological claims
Clarify evidence model, correlations vs causations, approved therapies vs experiments, personal protocol vs general recommendations.
Do not present dangerous or experimental interventions as simple advice.
A movement against death does not become stronger by lying to itself.
7. AI-generated content
AI may be used as an assistant. Low-effort AI-generated writing is not welcome. Ensure that you have read and understood and can argue about every line, that you post.
Allowed: grammar, structure, translation, brainstorming, reference formatting, drafts you substantially rewrite.
Not allowed: raw AI output, fake expertise, unchecked citations, unread paper summaries, generated comments. If AI materially shaped the post, disclose it.
Example:
For heavy use, include or summarize the prompt.
8. Responsibility
You are responsible for what you post.
If your name is on it, you vouch that you understand the claims, checked the important facts, are not misleading readers, and can answer serious objections.
If you cannot vouch for a claim, mark it clearly or remove it.
9. Promotion
Promotion must be useful.
Allowed: concrete announcements, hiring, funding requests, lessons learned, postmortems, specific calls for collaborators.
Not allowed: empty hype, repeated self-promotion, vague “join us” posts, marketing copy, fake urgency, engagement bait, or fundraising without enough detail.
Disclose conflicts of interest.
10. Personal stories and The Panethon
Personal stories are welcome.
Good personal posts explain what happened, what was learned, and what should change.
Obituaries and Pantheon posts should be serious.
Do not use someone’s death as cheap rhetoric.
11. Vibe
Preferred vibe: serious, clear, alive.
Not academic fog. Not startup hype. Not cultish certainty. Not doom performance. Not Twitter combat.
12. Moderation
Moderators may remove, downrank, or ask for edits on content that predictably damages the forum’s usefulness.
This includes spam, harassment, personal attacks, doxxing, threats, low-effort AI output, bad-faith behavior, irresponsible medical misinformation, empty promotion, and off-topic political fighting.
A forum can die from spam. It can also die from mediocre comments and vague posts.
AI use here: I used ChatGPT to work on these rules. We've refactored them together 2-5 times, until they became readable. I've read and sign under every word.