Longevity Cookbook Indiegogo Campaign Is the Most Effective Step You Can Take towards Your Longevity

Something amazing has happened! We have launched our Longevity Cookbook Indiegogo Campaign.

Aging steals away your most valuable resource: time. The Longevity Cookbook is a strategy guide to help you get more time to experience the joy from everything that you like in life. Take yourself on a journey starting with nutrients and exercise regimes that goes on to exploring the usage of genetically modified symbiotic organisms and using gene therapy to boost your own longevity.

Contributing to ‪#LongevityCookbook‬ is the best way you can spend your money, because we are fighting for your life. Please, contribute and share the Longevity Cookbook campaign. Let’s defeat aging together!

Longevity Cookbook Indiegogo Launch Party

5 reasons why you should invite your friends to the Longevity Cookbook Indiegogo Launch Party:

1. Do you want your friends to have better and longer lives? Take care of them! Let them know that they can extend their lives and the lives of many people around them.
2. To slow down and eventually defeat aging people should unite. Longevity Cookbook Party is an amazing opportunity to meet like-minded people, think of new projects together and have fun.
3. Longevity Cookbook is the strategy of defeating aging. We are launching a project that is going to change everything. Participate in this historic event! Our book will save millions of lives because we will provide scientifically proven information about how to preserve your life.
4. Often people don’t know how to help the cause of longevity. Now there is a clear answer! It is crowdfunding for Longevity Cookbook.
5. And photos of course! We will have tons of cool pictures taken from the Party!

Reposting this is making a contribution to an action of peace, goodness and fairness.

I am looking forward to seeing everybody on May 14 at Mighty club in San Francisco at 119 Utah street!

RSVP – https://www.facebook.com/events/1750304398529385/

Transhumanism Strategy

We’ve put together the survey on transhumanism strategy to reveal the inner discussion inside the transhumanist movement. Our goal is to inspire the people to act.

We believe the greatest sin in our field is wishful thinking. It’s when a person is saying that it would be good to do something, like for instance, to shoot a viral video, but at the same time this person is not doing anything. His or hers advice has to be implemented in real life somehow on its own.

We also tried to get away from discussing whether it’s going to be boring to live, what about overpopulation, and whether we should argue with nature or not. We can’t be talking about this nonsense forever.

We will take the liberty of commenting on the obtained results from 223 respondents and share our own opinion on the proposed questions.

58% think a global movement is needed. I suppose we agree with it, but it’s not necessary that right now there have to be a lot of people. It is more important that the people understand the situation and the goals of transhumanism and are ready to act.

20% believe that the cure for aging can only be created as a non-profit project, and 80% think not necessarily. Our position is that only a non-profit initiative can achieve significant deceleration of aging. We’ve witnessed tens of commercial projects in life extension and every time the idea to earn money wins over the idea of living longer. Radical life extension idea is extremely complicated and burdening it with making money overcomplicates everything.

Let’s Bet on Money?

Let’s make a bet? I will propose something incredibly effective in the area of life extension and no one will be able to suggest a better strategy. Deal?

First of all, let’s think about what KPI (Key Performance Indicators) can be applied to longevity? What will tell us that we are on the right way to immortality, but not moving in the opposite direction towards the grave.

The answer here lies on the surface.

The first thing is money. The more money is invested in projects on life extesnion, the better chances we have to stay alive.

The second thing is people. There’s a nuance here. How can we count the increase in number of people? I think we need to count the most devoted supporters in the first place. There are millions of people who don’t mind living longer. Many of them run in parks or read biotechnology news, but does their activity lead to radical life extension? In my opinion, no. Moreover, having found a simple recipe like a diet, yoga or Kurzweil’s promises that everything is going to happen on its own by 2030, this kind of longevity supporters don’t do anything, because subconsciously they have already found the solution to the problem.

I propose to take only those people into account, who are involved in projects on radical human life extension. How can we identify such a person? Oh, it’s very easy. He or she talks about it explicitly and their actions are adequate, meaning they are established socially.

The third KPI is the number of events. Conferences, books, round tables, articles, social actions, 40 people going to have a beer because of the approaching singularity, youtube videos, scientific projects, movies – all of that is needed in extra large quantities.

The forth thing is the effectiveness of collaboration. This one is complicated. Perhaps the number of people involved in the same transhumanist project needs to be taken in account.

So, what strategy will be most oriented towards increasing all of the 4 indices? What can yield more money, more people, more events and more collaboration?

It is crowdfunding of scientific projects in the area of longevity. First dozens and then hundreds of crowdfunding campaigns have to be created that would raize funding for longevity gene therapy, regenerative medicine, studying molecular mechanisms of aging and their relationship to pathologies.

Yes, perhaps, we will raize not a lot of moeny in the beginning, but the projects that describe the work of the scientists, they will stay and they will continuosly owrk towards educating, promoting and attracting supporters. Moreover, they will help the universities and research institutes get government grants and venture capital.

Joint donations for longevity research will draw people closer together and will allow to constantly increase the loyal audience. There will be a chain reaction – successful crowdfunding peojects will motivate to create more projects in our field.

A set of projects on life extension will give a clear signal to the society that great things can be done to secure the main human right – the eright to live.

This is the reason why I participated in creating LabCures, because I concider this project the best strategy for the initial kick off of novel research projects including longevity.

What Should Be Done to Achieve Radical Life Extension?

Theoretically the problem is already solved. It is now quite obvious what kind of research should be done for life extension. For example, testing various combinations of different things that extend lifespan in old mice. Particularly important is longevity gene therapy development.

Delivering 5-7 gene vectors simultaneously carrying longevity-associated genes into an old animal could prove to be quite beneficial, because similar approach already works.

It is also clear that there are several experiments in the area of therapeutic cloning that should be done immediately.

There are about 20 other research directions in the area of radical life extension. I’d like to just also mention implementing aging diagnostics into clinical practice.

There are approximately 50 labs in the states that move into the right direction. They could do much more if they had more money.

Well, it’s all about the money, but not really big money.

Transhumanists from all over the world have been trying to solve the mystery of how to secure funding for reaching physical immortality. The very development of science leads towards it, but this process is too slow, a lot of people may not make it in time. Our goal is to accelerate.

Right now it has become obvious how to find the money for radical life extension. It’s crowdfunding. 200-300 campaigns need to be created on various crowdfunding platforms on the topics of fighting aging and regenerative medicine.

Of course, we may not be able to find the necessary amounts of money right away, but we will be able to delineate the scope of goals, most importantly not using just the general words, but particular scientists, labs and research plans.

Even by only preparing the campaigns we will influence the society by once again providing the proof of the possibility of significant life extension. Unfortunately, molecular biology is not part of an every day’s person background. We will make people more educated, show them how diseases originate, progress, and how they relate to aging. We will also tell the people what can be done.

While working on the crowdfunding campaigns we will mobilize our supporters by giving them a concrete tool and a plan of action. Fighting aging crowdfunding will become a very powerful transhumanist organizational solution.

In the end we will gather the money, implement our projects and win!

If you are interested in bringing this plan to live, let’s collaborate. Every single project requires a manager, analyst, scientist, director, operator, a guy who owns a car and a guy who writes a lot about this on the Internet. There is work for everybody, so let’s do this.

Life Extension is a Political Task

Sooner or later the human life extension problem, the task of achieving immortality will become the main issue of government policies in developed countries of the world. This will happen on its own because of the exponential growth of technologies.

At some point of time immortality will become the main political question.

This is inevitable. 

Nevertheless, let’s make this process faster to save millions of lives. In order to make this leap towards human radical life extension, political will is needed.

Without it there is no money for new research, no laws permitting the most radical experiments (cloning and transplanting a mammal’s head), there is no fast approval of new therapeutics. There is no proper interest.

We consider the gay community fighting for anti-AIDS drugs development against FDA an excellent example of political struggle. It is pictured in the How to survive the plague movie and its trailer.

Here we see the main signs of successful political struggle – large amounts of people uniting, heating of emotions, street actions, using speech, music, slogans and any other features. Vigor in being ready to fight for the right to live.

This is a spectacular example to follow. A call for action to fight for lifespan increase.

The majority of transhumanist efforts were dedicated to trying to persuade the billionaires. At large, this strategy failed. Billionaires are billionaires because they love money more than their own lives.

The major result here is Google creating Calico company. Calico’s budget was announced to be several hundreds of million dollars. However, it is still unclear what Calico will be doing. The research plan wasn’t shared with the public.

There are several reasons why persuading the billionaires failed – their preoccupation with immediate return, their religious beliefs (Steve Jobs), their irrationality and so on.

Therefore, there are only two possible addressees of our message – the government and the people. In a democratic state the policy is defined by the people’s choice, and because of this crowd activity is particularly necessary to influence the state. Moreover, the people can substitute the state. For example, back in the day the government gathered taxes from the people and spent them on various projects, but now the people can do the very same thing using crowdfunding and substitute the government. Although, perhaps, in the future we will see transhumanist parties in parliaments.

Various public actions can influence government policy. It is our task to prepare actions in favor of life extension. An idea acquired by the masses is material, Lenin wrote.

If a given idea has 20 million followers, it doesn’t need a state to win. It has already won. It can form an alternative system of decision making on the Internet, i.e. create the crowd-power.

Radical life extension is the strongest idea in the history of mankind. The Pirate party and the Green party may serve as an example of how the international life extension party will be created. First of all, there has to be a circle of people who share the same value, and separate flamboyant actions that highlight this value. Just like Greenpeace performed this action when they sailed to the island where the nuclear testing was about to take place.

However we are aware that radical life extension idea still hasn’t got enough followers, and public actions are needed to attract new supporters, because actionism is also quite fascinating. Maybe we should float 400 coffins into the Hudson River so that people will see with their own eyes how many people die in New York every day.

Another way of using the power of the crowd is crowdfunding of scientific experiments.

And it’s important to say that there are such experiments that possess the power of political acts, meaning they extend the limits of what’s possible and set the direction of further movement.

It so happens when the first step in some activity sets the direction, for example when a person gets admitted to university for particular major, this defines his movement on the professional ladder – whether he will become an economist or a dentist, a marine or an AI developer. Yes, options are possible, but the first actions triggers the following ones.

We have to find exactly this kind of solutions in our field.

For example, transplanting a head from one mammal to another will become the discovery of the whole area of research, but right now this procedure is not permitted because of the pseudoethical beliefs in the majority of the countries in the world. Today the most obscurant people with cave world view bloviate about bioethics.

What kind of experiments are those?

Restoring the activity in brain samples

One of the main arguments against cryonics is that it’s unclear whether the memory of the person will survive the freezing. However, it is well known that nematode worms survive the freezing in liquid nitrogen quite well, meaning separate neurons can survive the freezing. The question is if we teach the worm do something and cryopreserve it, will the acquired memory be intact after we warm it up? If so, then we will be able to do this experiment in more complicated organisms. If not, then… we still should move to more complicated models and study the requirements for memory preserving.

Implementing aging diagnostics in the clinical setting

If we are able to do aging diagnostics, we will be able to measure the efficacy of anti-aging drugs much faster than watching whole generations of humans age, meaning we will see the effects within our lifetime. This is how aging will stop being a black box and will become a quantitative and changeable parameter.

Testing various substances and therapies on longevity will stop being some shaman magic and will gain solid scientific basis. Drug development will become very rapid and significant human life extension will be achieved.

Life extension in old mice using longevity associated genes

We can use genetic vectors and other technologies to insert various genes associated with longevity in adult mice, and we can select the combinations of those genes that will significantly increase lifespan. This will pave the way to creating human longevity genetic engineering.

Let’s do those things to a rat that make the naked mole rat negligibly senescent.

Transplantation of therapeutically cloned organs

This experiment will illustrate the potential of therapeutic cloning and will open new opportunities in regenerative medicine.

Sustaining viability of a mammal’s head for more than 1 year outside the body

If we are able to sustain viability of a head outside the body, this will open up the new possibility for extending life in terminally ill people, including the transition to using the completely artificial body.

Working model of the nematode worm’s brain

It we are able to simulate the operations of the 300 neurons of the nematode and reconstruct its behavior, then we will prove the sufficiency of our knowledge for more complicated objects.

Applying AI for diagnostics using tens of thousands of parameters

AI can become a powerful player in healthcare – if we have the detailed information about our health, we will be able to easily prevent any kind of disorders on very early stages of their development. By doing so we will significantly reduce the risk of death. In the end AI will not only act as a physician, but it will also conduct scientific experiments and will guarantee human life, health and immortality.

Based on everything said I propose collaboration on the following three things:

First of all, crowdfunding of basic scientific research. There is a new service that would connect the public and medical research – LabCures. It will allow everyone to fund whichever research in life-sciences that they like.

Secondly, we propose to join the Longevity Party group on Facebook and use this resource for organizing street actions, demonstrations, graffiti and so on.

Thirdly, I invite everyone to come to our Genetics of Aging and Longevity conference in Sochi on April 6-10, 2014. The world’s leading aging researchers will gather there to discuss the latest research highlights in the field of life extension. We will be very happy to see volunteers on our conference.