The influence of vitalist movements on actual technological and biomedical progress has been extremely small. There is little evidence that this is likely to change in the next few decades. CRISPR, CAR-T, xenotransplantation, AlphaFold, the AI revolution, and even the doubling of NIH funding between 1998 and 2003 all happened...
Sixteen archetypes of how people relate to defeating death A half-serious, MBTI-flavoured classification of how adults relate to aging, death, and the project of defeating them. Four binary axes, sixteen combinations. None of the axes split the population in half; none of the sixteen cells contain the same number of...
The idea behind Drake's equation - applied to the question of why there are so few active supporters of life extension in the world - has been floating around the movement for a long time. The first precursor to articulate something along these lines was formulated by Vladimir Shakirov in...