"Aging is the process of a complex system slowly falling into its chaotic disequilibrium. And it's not like evolution necessarily even set a lifespan for us. It is merely the result of, once the system has been established, how long its intrinsic property stayed ordered before it became disordered."
I’m excited to share my conversation with
@jacobkimmel of
@newlimit.
Every species who has ever lived has one shared certainty: we’ll age, decay, and die. Jacob and his team are among the small group of people on earth with the expertise and funding to work on this problem.
We talked about why we age, whether cellular aging can actually be reversed, how evolution shaped our lifespan and our peaks, and how AI is fundamentally changing the next era of science.
Recorded at New Limit’s HQ in South San Francisco.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:25 Why Evolution Limits Lifespan
03:13 Evolution Tradeoffs Explained
07:44 Why Women Live Longer
10:15 Lessons from Long Lived Species
16:20 Peak Intelligence
23:26 What is Aging?
27:59 Yamanaka Factors
32:18 New Limit
33:56 AI's Role in Progress
37:28 Organ by Organ Longevity
40:28 Is Immortality Possible?
42:04 Lifespan Progress
45:44 How to Test Longevity Drugs
49:30 Placebo Mind Body Link
53:56 What longevity hacks actually work?
57:25 Peptides And Stem Cells
01:00:34 Gene Editing
01:05:10 Personalized Medicine
01:08:48 Philosophical Dilemmas of Longer Lifespans
01:14:57 Living Off Earth
01:16:55 AI And Bio Risks