[extropy-chat] singularity conference at stanford

[Martin Striz]

On 5/15/06, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:

> Where do you see an impressive life extension, in people?
> What we see is that CR appears to work, and that someday
> (not necessarily this decade) there might be a drug to
> mimick the effects of CR with tolerable side effects.
> Might. We don't know for sure yet.

Caveat: CR works in very simple systems.  We don't know how well it
scales up yet.  I certainly doubt it's linear.  Experiments are
currently underway in dogs and gorillas, among other species, and of
course the many uncontrolled self-experiments in humans.

Martin