Longevity-Obsessed Tech Millionaire Discontinues De-Aging Drug Out of Concerns That It Aged Him
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This will not end well for him. He's doing a bunch of experiments, all at once, with a sample size of one.
Shhhhh, shhhhh, let him cook.....himself.
This is how we get mutated supervillains
Finally!
You really want to live in a world with supervillains and few heroes, let alone any superheroes?
I don’t think we’ll have a choice.
Sure, but that other person expressed joy. I'm questioning the nature of that joy, not their agency.
"The attempt on my life has left me scarred"
I’m honestly just deeply interested in this guy every time I hear about him.
Not because I think he’s smart, on to something, or at all worthwhile though.
It’s just…. Kind of morbidly entertaining to watch a man spend so much time and money to deal with an obvious and incredible fear of death.
He’s going to die some day, and probably from one of these things he’s paying for to avoid dying. It’s Qin Shi Huang shit.
And, ya know what? There are some truly wonderful and interesting works of philosophy dealing with his exact problem, but our boy is too much of a tech bro to even consider that someone may have found a way to deal with the fear of death a few thousand years ago.
So, fuck it, burn that cash bud.
At least he's using all of the anti aging treatments on himself like a lab rat. Only he will have to suffer if something goes terribly wrong. And maybe something does work and it'll be actually useful to everyone else.
This is the same guy that's using his teenage son as a blood donor too though right? That's the part I'm not okay with.
Yeah that one was a bit fucked up, but at least he isn't doing it anymore after finding out it does absolutely fuck all for him.
That's where I'm at on this. The dude is a major dork for trying to de-age himself BUT, like you said, he's the test subject! There's a long and storied history of self-experimentation leading to discoveries.
I probably don't support how he made his wealth (haven't looked into it) but I support his freedom to do what he wants with his body.
Wouldn't it be ironic if through his "research" he finds a working anti aging cream but it doesn't work on him because of all the other shit he took, so he becomes the only one who ages.
If only.
I just hope that it wouldn't be a treatment that would be only affordable to billionaires.
We don't need the aristocrats to live forever.
Honestly he should just put his soul in a painting
Therapy is for poor people, inject me with cobra venom
Good reference
I can't wait to read "Longevity-Obsessed tech millionaire dies of natural causes at 72 years old."
You mean at 60 from a cancer with all the sketchy garbage his body had to assimilate?
I remember him taking snake venom injections ffs
Something something Steve Jobs.
Still angry about how he basically gave himself pancreatic cancer by following an all fruit diet, then somehow managed to get a transplant before a bunch of way more deserving people. Only to die a few years later anyway.
That would be funny
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Now now, I'm not trying to be too cruel. Guy hasn't done anything to upset me.
I just know in my heart that he will die like the rest of us.
All that money, time and effort in order for a 46 year old to look somewhere in his mid 40s.
Yeah, he looks his age. At least he's relatively healthy, aside from experimenting with those boutique supplements/drugs. It sucks that he pulls in other people into his cult.
Honestly he should just make a deal with the devil.
It worked for Dorian Gray
Imagine if it worked, though. This dude would have a basement full of teenagers, their blood being siphoned for his own twisted purpose.
Kinda like the book "the house of the scorpion"
I mean, if it did work he'd have a pretty strong motive to claim that it didn't.
Not only him, but other rich people too. Glad that didn't work
I can't wait for him to sacrifice his son to save prolong his own life (how noble)
I would have so much more respect for this douche if he was doing all this in a legitimately scientific way with the purpose of benefiting humanity.
But nope, he's just deeply insecure about aging and is fine with burning money and experimenting on himself in order to feel better about it.
Don’t forget stealing his child’s blood.
Hey! They consented! Supposedly.
I'll take "Coerced" for $500, Alex.
What's wrong with that? He's a millionaire who's experimenting on himself and reporting his findings? Definitely extreme but what value is there in hating the guy?
Let him be insecure and cope how he wants, he's small fry compared to the billionaire problem at hand
yeah exactly, maybe he'll find something useful along the way. At least the rich have (hopefully) stopped their usual "youth restoring" rituals like bathing in infant blood
He injected himself with his sons blood....
ah, nevermind
This dude takes a ton of pills a day and uses his son’s blood, but still looks older than some Asians several years older than him.
He's looking like a Dollar Store Data
Anecdota
Or Paul Rudd, who is nearly 10 years older. Some people just age better than others.
It might be more science-y if he had an identical twin and only one of them was getting the supplements.
He should try just getting a blood boy like Gavin Belson did in Silicon Valley
Oh, his blood boy is his son.
Unfortunately I'm not kidding.
Oh shit... I sometimes forget how little the truth has to bend for satire. I'm glad my dad isn't into that
I’m pretty sure the Silicon Valley joke was based on this guy.
Or Peter Theil
To be fair he stopped that too, turns out you can't do enough transfusions to make any difference.
Worst My Dad Is Dracula comic ever.
Dude, get a normal fucking hobby.
IMMORTALITY!
If you're immortal, your can play through ALL normal hobbies - twice!
Check mate, mortal!
Is it not normal to look up to Dorian Gray?
Dude took an immunosuppressant for five years to try and live longer.
I mean... when you say it out loud, sure that does seem misguided...
It was kind of funny until he used his son's blood and "more recently, used “shock treatments” on his genitals in an apparent effort to reverse age his penis"
I don't know ......let him keep shocking his balls. Just let him try. It's funnier this way.
If he could just convince Elon Musk that it works...
Just join the American senate like the rest of the eternals
No, his body just did that naturally.
This just in, drugs have side effects and aging is very complex.
I hope that guy comes to terms with his mortality. I struggle with aging with every creature around me and myself.
I don't struggle with it at all, it happens all by itself without need of intervention
It's very practical in that way.
I look forward to it (my own mortality) being a nice surprise.
Hopefully a very long time from now.
I'm the meantime, anyone want to buy my book on immortality? It has worked perfectly... So far.
I love how millionaires think they can cheat death, just because they have money.
Let them try. Maybe some of that money will go to researching something useful like cancer treatments.
Bet you anything he has not tried plutonium. He should try plutonium. Harry Daghlian will live forever. In our hearts and textbooks.
Ok, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it was probably just time that aged him.
Drugs aside, that time thing is hard to avoid.
It's almost like scientists are on to something when they wait for double blind randomizied control trials results before declaring effectiveness of a medicine.
He looks ~400 years old.
That's crazy since he is actually predates humanity
I just hope that he's got nice decent medical advisors working with actual doctors and medical staff, so that all that money he's throwing at this at least trickles down to people that deserve it.
He's constantly checked with doctors and publishes the results.
Dude is another tech millionaire weirdo but may accidentally stumble upon some good data, maybe. Ordinary Things did a very interesting interview with him. Dude lives purely to hopefully extend his life, it's weird.
He could be spending this fortune on real medical research. What an asshole.
Why? He's publishing his results, it's a good data point. He's a human trial on safety of some of these drugs. And it's his money after all.
Many of the substances these people try end up being valuable for people with chronic fatigue and related autoimmune diseases.
Does it really matter whether he's driven by selfishness or by the desire to help others? Are all researchers purely altruistic?
It's quackery though. He's not actually doing good science.
He's "only" a centimillionaire, a single clinical trial can cost >$20m.
I do think that aging is something we can overcome. It'll take some exponential jumps in research/technology for it to happen in our lifetime though. What worries me is the ultra wealthy hoarding that discovery for themselves.
The wealthy don't stay that way by keeping tech secret, they stay that way by selling it to everybody else.
This is my concern too. Sure, I'm not a huge fan of the idea of myself dying someday, old and decrepit. But there are a ton of people out there about whom it gives me some relief to remember that they too will die. And most of them are the kind of people who whold have first access to anti-aging treatments.
Oops! It wasn’t “de-aging drug” it was “de (of) aging drug”
It's like headache pills.
or lobster sauce
Or Pepsi
The funniest thing about this is that if he just transitioned he’d get ALL SORTS of age reduction benefits! I’ve been taking spironolactone and estradiol for about 9 months now, and everyone keeps asking me if I’m getting younger.
What
Those hormones affect fat distribution, which can make someone appear younger.
Oh
That's a shame, rapamycin had a lot of promising studies.
He looks like a zombie of Paul Rudd
Here's how you can do what he wants to do:
My body tells me to devour six packs of sour gummi bears every afternoon.
Most of the things you read about on this topic are verging on pseudoscience (because nearly everything diet based is) and you're going to have to feel out how it works for you if you want to look into it, but we think the cravings you have are more about what your brain thinks are the best ways to get specific things.
So, while you're craving 'sour gummi bears', what your brain actually wants might be a specific vitamin or mineral that your brain thinks it can get from that and it's likely to have an alternate healthy source. Real hard to put into practice and change how you approach that though.