Aubrey de Grey: Why we age and how we can avoid it
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August 1st, 2010 at 1:16 pm
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@maxgunn555 i assure you i was never quoting it’s sad you don’t allow new ideas and rejected me like the plague
August 5th, 2010 at 12:23 am
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@mrfrankincense your obviously not quoting anymore but i meant before you in your previous comments – urghhhh your trolling me right now by that accusation. bye bye and i’m not the ignorant one here.
August 7th, 2010 at 6:23 am
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@maxgunn555 one man? really that’s it a science?
August 8th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
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@maxgunn555 ‘no intrinsic value’ not everything people do is because of intrinsic value, many victims of racism would ask for that i know this because many people spend thousands on untested illegal ways of changing their skin colour today. you can get tans and dye your hair without genetic manipulation. i’m not trolling you i genuinely did not know which comment you were referring to as i posted many. please stop posting retorts about me personally and insinuating that i am quoting this, how?
August 9th, 2010 at 6:46 am
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@mrfrankincense ‘what about maxgunn555 i quote ‘science of immortality’ what science of immortality? ‘diseases mutate infinitely but the ones which actually last we have medicines for such as the flu’ have you heard of swine flu? ‘they see ageing? as a disease (scientists)’ really, ever met one’ – WATCH THE FUCKING VIDEO ABOVE FOOL.
August 10th, 2010 at 7:25 am
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@mrfrankincense i say do what you want but there is no intrinsic value to changing skin colour so not many people would. however people do like getting tans and dying their hair so its not that far from it. as for you other comment i was wandering what you were referring to when you said ‘when’ obviously so stop trolling me now and psychojosh please.
August 11th, 2010 at 12:19 am
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@maxgunn555 which are you commenting on?
August 11th, 2010 at 4:01 pm
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@maxgunn555 where do you stop, when someone says he wants to change his skin colour do you say ‘yes that’s a great idea!!!!!!’
August 13th, 2010 at 7:42 am
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@PsychoJosh me ignorant? what about maxgunn555 i quote ‘science of immortality’ what science of immortality? ‘diseases mutate infinitely but the ones which actually last we have medicines for such as the flu’ have you heard of swine flu? ‘they see ageing as a disease (scientists)’ really, ever met one? ‘at some point in time a cure will be found for cancer’ wrong. why don’t you accept a difference of opinion, i’ve put forward arguments about ageing and all you’ve done is said i’m wrong?
August 14th, 2010 at 9:07 am
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@mrfrankincense sorry what are you talking about now?
August 15th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
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@mrfrankincense there’s no question of ‘curing’ you own genes you simply change them to how you see fit, just like how you may get a haircut when you feel you need one.
August 18th, 2010 at 11:04 am
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@PsychoJosh nature doesn’t have a personality stop hating it
August 21st, 2010 at 1:17 pm
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@maxgunn555 when?
August 21st, 2010 at 9:15 pm
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@maxgunn555 why hasn’t it evolved then?
August 23rd, 2010 at 2:31 pm
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@PsychoJosh the only reason we reproduce is because our predecessors did
August 26th, 2010 at 9:11 am
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@PsychoJosh i said that people die of ageing at 80, not that people have always died at 80. medical science has improved life expectancy from 30 to 80 not through slowing ageing, but eradicating diseases like smallpox. you completely missed the point. you will not find one quote denying that people die before 80. however 80 is about the point where our genes tend to kill us through ageing and that can be changed with genetic engineering. tell me where do you stop ‘cureing’ your own genes?
August 29th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
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The former is fear; and implies an irrational decision based on emotions beyond one’s control. The other is logical and proactive, e.g. I seek to listen to nice music because I enjoy nice music, not because I’m running away in fear from the alternative.
August 31st, 2010 at 3:53 am
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@PsychoJosh great idea thnx. we should both not speak to this ignorant person whilst he does his simple biology revision lol. immortality is a goal of extropy and we unlike mrfrankincense both understand that extropy is inherently good. if you’re around my age 18 then it’s quite possible that we’ll be offered immortality along with mrfrankincese and we will live plenty more years whilst he settles on 80 – thats actually a nice thought.
September 3rd, 2010 at 8:12 am
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@maxgunn555 Please don’t talk to mrfrankincense anymore, he has already proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is an ignorant hypocrite and trying to reason with him is like trying to explain mathematics to a cockroach.
September 3rd, 2010 at 10:25 pm
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@mrfrankincense Your defense of aging is completely laughable considering that you believe you’re “meant” to die at eighty, thus proving your complete ignorance. Medicinal science, the EXACT SAME KIND that Aubrey is a practitioner of, is the sole reason you actually get to LIVE until 80. If it wasn’t for medicinal science your life expectancy would be 30, like it was for humans just 100 or so years ago. The fact that you believe humans have always lived to 80 only serves to show your ignorance.
September 7th, 2010 at 6:07 am
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@maxgunn555 why, the culture is higher than 80 makes no sense
September 8th, 2010 at 9:31 pm
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@mrfrankincense soz i forgot to write in the word ‘over’ – ‘over 125%’. there culture is alot higher than 80 so i suggest you aim a bit higher yourself. do lots of gradual small activity and don’t go to the gym.
September 9th, 2010 at 10:30 am
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@maxgunn555 125% of 80 is 100. it’s ok i’ll forgive you.
i doubt that their entire culture are dieing of ageing at 105.
September 9th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
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@maxgunn555 these are all my own comments not quotes from biology revision, complete relevance when you bring up cancer and don’t know what it is.
September 10th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
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@mrfrankincense also don’t settle on 80 years as the natural. theres many people in okinawa living to 105 – thats 125% of the life you expect to have.