SENS Foundation’s Aubrey de Grey: “You may live for a million years”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Aubrey de Grey, founder of the Sens Research Foundation, to talk the possibility of turning humans into a "multi-century species" (1:40), why rejuvenation is the key (4:40), aiming for “longevity escape velocity” (6:00), what’s wrong with the current approach to ageing, tackling the seven types of ageing damage (10:20), why the Google guys are wasting their money (11:30), getting funding from Peter Thiel and Vitalik Buterin (13:35), why cryptocurrency millionaires are enthused by living forever (15:25), why eternal life is the next step in evolution (18:45), what rejuvenation looks like (23:25), why he has no time for dystopic predictions (27:00), the coming war on ageing (31:20), how he ended up in Silicon Valley (35:45), why ageing doesn’t get much funding (38:20), and treating the human body like a car (39:30).

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0:00.0	Yo, technology.
0:03.0	What is it all about?
0:04.5	People still are clinging to this idea that aging is some kind of enigma, some kind of mystery.
0:08.6	It's nonsense.
0:09.9	And the reason it's nonsense is because aging is simply a phenomenon of physics.
0:15.5	Hello.
0:16.5	As you can probably tell, I am not in an office or anything.
0:19.5	I'm in my car.
0:20.4	Driving through
0:21.3	scenic Mountain View, and when I say scenic, it's not that scenic. It's just a bunch of office
0:27.0	parks. But anyway, I'm about to go meet up with Aubrey de Grey, who is a British scientist,
0:34.6	and he's doing some fascinating research into anti-aging.
0:39.2	And his basic thesis is that we're not that far from reaching longevity-scape velocity,
0:47.3	which in other words means that pretty soon we'll be living maybe to 1,000, 2,000, 3,000,
0:53.8	maybe even a million years.
0:55.6	I know that sounds crazy, but he's working on this stuff.
1:00.3	He's a total believer.
1:01.9	He's got some serious backing from none other than Peter Thiel.
1:07.4	So we're going to go sit down and have a word with him.
1:12.9	It should be a fascinating conversation. Let conversation see what he has to say.
1:17.4	Good morning.
1:22.6	How are you?
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