Author: Kyle
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Incursions into Meatspace
Future of AI Series What’s coming from the black box For Case, who’d lived for the bodiless exultation of cyberspace, it was the Fall… The elite stance involved a certain relaxed contempt for the flesh. The body was meat. William Gibson in Neuromancer The elite stance has reversed. The AI is coming for the meat.…
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Addendum
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…
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16. Conclusion
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,…
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Appendix B: What I Take
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…
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References
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…
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15. Future Longevity Advances
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:…
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14. The Philosophy of Immortality
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…
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Translation Key
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…
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Chapter 12: Combining Interventions
The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum The Annual Increment chapter documented compounds with individually verified lifespan extension data, organized by the quality of the evidence behind them. It ended with a provocation: add the bold percentages and you get 317%. Multiply the average American lifespan by 3.17 and you get 253 years. The number…
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The Tilted Playing Field
American Producers Were Set Up To Lose Part of the “To Boldly Go” Austrian Economics Series The trade war debate produces a lot of heat and very little light — mostly because it focuses on the wrong variable. The standard analysis compares Chinese wages to American wages, finds a large gap, and concludes that the…