[extropy-chat] what other "X-prizes" have been started ?
Russell Wallace
russell.wallace at gmail.com
Tue Sep 20 03:03:49 UTC 2005
On 9/20/05, Reason <reason at longevitymeme.org> wrote:
>
> The Methuselah Mouse Prize - now the Mprize - is doing well. See:
>
> http://www.mprize.org/
That looks good except that it doesn't seem to disallow calorie restriction?
(CR is an easy way to prolong life in animals, but <understatement of the
month> it has been extensively tried in humans </understatement of the
month> and does little or nothing to prolong lifespan - unsurprisingly when
you think about it - so won't that short-circuit the prize?)
- Russell
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