Ruminations

Behind the screen

Author: Kyle

  • A New Story of Man

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    Another Excursion to the Edge Denisovan Man meets an early Human In February 2016, I posted an observation on WordPress that most anthropologists would have found professionally risky: “I have a wacky theory that all the ancestral hominid bones they’ve found so far are ancestral to our own. Without the DNA to go on, all…

  • The Flower That Costs More Than Gold

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    A pound of saffron requires roughly seventy-five thousand crocus flowers, each hand-picked at dawn before the sun wilts the three crimson threads inside it, each thread pulled by hand because no machine has ever been built that can do it without destroying the flower. That is why an ounce of it costs more than an…

  • An Incursion into Meatspace

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    Future of AI Series What’s coming from the black box One of Anthropic’s engineers has not written a line of code in five months. Not because the work dried up. Because Claude does it now. As of May 2026, more than 80% of the code merged into Anthropic’s production codebase was authored by Claude. An…

  • Addendum

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    to How To Live Forever Ch.6 Hormone Restoration FDA Class I recall of thyroid tablets, September 2026 — the most serious recall level. One lot of Vitruvias Therapeutics’s thyroid pill of porcine thyroid extract was found to be dangerously “superpotent”. The pharmaceutical management of thyroid function carries documented safety risks that nutraceutical approaches including maca’s…

  • 16. Conclusion

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    Just Don’t Get Hit By A Bus This book opened with a clock about to strike midnight. The biological clock running inside each of us does not measure time in hours but in hallmarks. Twelve of them, identified by López-Otín and colleagues and updated in 2023: genomic instability, telomere attrition, epigenetic alterations, loss of proteostasis,…

  • Appendix B: What I Take

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    I do not try to find the cheapest supplements but rather the ones that are best formulated to work. For that reason, most of the supplements I take now are from the Life Extension company. (The company was formerly the Life Extension Foundation, so I will stick with the abbreviation, LEF.) The supplements they provide…

  • References

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    Foundational Books Pauling L. Vitamin C and the Common Cold. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman; 1970. Stone I. The Healing Factor: Vitamin C Against Disease. New York: Grossman Publishers; 1972. Passwater RA. Supernutrition: Megavitamin Revolution. New York: Dial Press; 1975. Passwater RA. Super-Nutrition for Healthy Hearts. New York: Dial Press; 1977. Pauling L. Cancer and Vitamin…

  • 15. Future Longevity Advances

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    What Is Coming and When Consider what medicine looked like in 1926. No antibiotics. No understanding of DNA. No molecular virology. No vaccines for polio or measles. Cancer treated primarily by surgery. Diabetes a death sentence for most of human history, with insulin barely four years in clinical use. Heart surgery impossible. Average American lifespan:…

  • 14. The Philosophy of Immortality

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    What it means to Live Forever “There is no reason to suppose that a man whose hair is grey and whose face is wrinkled has lived a long life — he has merely existed for a long time.” — Seneca, quoted in Stanisław Lem’s 1959 novel on AI and information control The supplements work. The…

  • Translation Key

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    Terms and Abbreviations used in How To Live Forever ABA Design (Reversal Design) — a single-subject experimental methodology used in behavioral science. Whenever trying a novel intervention, try to “take it, stop taking it, take it again” so the supplement is the only variable. ALCAR — Acetyl-L-Carnitine. An amino acid derivative that shuttles fatty acids…