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  • Figures an Istari Wizard would be interest in Immortality.

  • I don't think that it matters what one spends his or her money on, every mony spent is good for the economy... so I don't get what he means by "saving all this money"... then again, maybe I don't think big

  • Now this is a "big think" that is logical and deeply thought out.

  • ok im totally gonna stereotype this guy. he does notradamus / renaissance festival work on the side. he was into dungeons and dragons as a kid, he has a hookah. he went to a college with no grades, he has been to at least 4 phish concerts. i could go on and on.

  • If people are staying in the workforce, won't we run out of jobs? How would that be beneficial to the economy?

  • @renragged

    oh god, you really need to take like at least one college econ class before you write about economy ever again. I recommend Macroecon 101

  • @leeo268 I'll go sign up right now! I mean, me taking Macroecon 101 would be so much easier and faster than a genius such as yourself just giving a simple explanation of it here. I foolishly thought it would be fairly simple to explain. Since you can't possibly do that, I guess it is just that deep and complicated.

    Thanks for your comment and keep up the good work leeo268!

  • This guy is 49 years old!

  • If there's anyone who knows about immortality, it's Rasputin.

  • I would walk barefoot through a mile of broken glass just to have that beard for a day.

  • Human death has a hidden social benefit- the next generation can be freed from the ideology of the previous generation. For instance, most fundamentalist Christians are old people, and it's also clear that the older a person is, the more racist, sexist, heterosexist, ethnocentric, and religiously prejudiced they are likely to be. When they finally die off, they will stop voting for the same kind of archaic-minded people and stop influencing potentially rational, all-accepting children.

  • @TheLonelyImmortal

    As racists die... exceptional minds do. Idiots(for instance) die and leave room to new idiots. I agree with you about refreshing the society with new ideologies... this is mostly how we evolve but imagine giving the possibility to great minds to keep studying and learning and improving indefinitely. Imagine how much wisdom each mind may be able to achieve. Beside, Weather it is morally right or not I see our immortal future as a consequence of our intellect.

  • @jandaletto I agree that immortality would allow certain great people to contribute much more than they would otherwise, but if immortality was given to everyone, I'm sure there'd be 700 year old fundamentalist religious people, heterosexists, and other prejudicial crazies, just like there are now, because age doesn't seem to have much affect on correctness or sanity, exemplified by so many old people today.

  • I cant wait to see more from this man in the coming years.

  • His power is derived from the beard.

  • 9 people want to die.

  • Sign. Me. Up. Now.

  • typical scientist

  • Will he come back as Aubrey de White if he dies?

  • @w3stwood If only he could die, we could find out.

  • If health is wealth, wealth will become health.

    So your only allowed to die when the maximum amount of money and labour has been generated from you. We're beginning to sound more like insects and less like human beings . Your only of value if you generate momentum for society so the clever rich people

    get to live and the dumb youtuber gets to pass on. This sounds like evolution will have its

    way with us and only clever people will live on which might not be a bad thing.

    : )

  • your beard, is showing signs of immortality.

  • Yeah, I definitely just clicked this video cause of the beard.

  • Ra-Ra-Rasputin, enlightening me on my computer screen.

  • You shall not age!

  • Why is he trying to prevent ageing when he could benefit so much from it?

    1: wait for ageing to occur

    2: change name to Aubrey THE Grey, dress in long robes

    3: ???

    4: PROFIT

  • don't know if immortality would be a good thing, the fact that we are mortal is what makes life so precious.

  • @cheebbs1 Aubrey De Greys work isn't focused on "immortality." Regenerative medicine will lengthen your lifespan little by little until it can be done indefinitely. This isn't a communist country, it will be not forced upon you to be any part of it if you don't want.

  • I hate to toss logic out the window and just go with gut feelings. But god damn, a society that can reverse aging just seems like a bad idea that will lead to enormous amounts of unforeseeable repercussions.

  • Don't know if anybody's mentioned this or not but I'm sure he's only interested in immortality because he wants an infinite length beard...

  • Oh Gandalf... Its nothing wrong with being a greybeard...

  • Beards should be executed every couple weeks at most...

  • Wow, Beard..

  • *WARNING* Half of the comment's contain BEARD

  • i like you. but i can't stop looking at the screen backwards .. 

  • Smart man. Great beard!

  • It's pretty obvious that technology like this has many more potential downfalls and abuses than benefits.

    He says himself about non-aging people "staying in the workforce and contributing to wealth creation"

  • Interesting man here

  • The beard is great, it would look so much better if you trimmed it a bit shorter, just trying to be helpful. Great video. Thanks

  • Hi ZEUS :D

  • It's kinda sad to see someone being able to envision a post aging world while still being stuck in outdated money based thinking.

  • @Zidriz money will always exist

  • @oscie1 That's quite a bold claim. What are you basing that on?

    We lived without money for the majority of human history. Only the last few millennia we used money, and that's only because of scarcity. I don's see how we could possibly continue to use money when technology continues to increase at the rate it does.

  • He looks like a young Greybeard and is just as wise sounding too.

  • That beard is legendary.

  • I actually thought he was Kaku

  • zakk wylde!!

  • I take a slightly different stand point. If we can create a world free of ageing, the first thing we need is to have room for the foreseeable population boom. It will occur minimal people ageing + people being born + population growth. As such things such as space colonies and terraformed planets need to be made.

    Also I'm fully against extending many peoples lives. People who have negatively impacting mental disorders (Schizophrenia, Homosexuality, Autism, etc) need to be removed.

  • @karnowo123 And before anyone gets up and at me for this I need to add... These negatively effect society. By controlling which humans die and which live we can hopefully breed out these problems.

  • @karnowo123 yeah, let's just wipe out anyone who isn't you. I could see letting those die that really do have some issue that stops them from functioning properly in society for the sake of reducing over population, but to group some of the people you mentioned into that category is bullshit. Grouping homosexuality in this group? Really? Homophobic much? I'm not gay, but never once in my life have gay people effected MY life, people are all different, get use to it.

  • @halfawake454 Homosexuality isn't "normal" it is a brain disorder no matter how you look at it. People just refuse to accept it because of how we have to "accept them"... but really its the same as saying we should accept people who have autism. Well in a way yes. But more so in the sense that we should feel sorry for them then anything else.

    So you know I wouldn't qualify to receive the life extension either as most members of my family have mental disorders and its believed I have BiPolar

  • @karnowo123 There must be something going on in the brain that makes someone homosexual, of course, but this behavior isn't hurting themselves and it isn't hurting anyone else. It's just homophobes that for some odd reason think it is destroying society, when it is not, their intolerance is. People are different get used to it. We don't need to be going around trying to "fix" every little thing about people. Besides, I think homosexuality is so common that it could be considered...

  • @karnowo123 continued....normal. Mammals, birds, reptiles, insects, and more have all been observed committing homosexual acts. Hundreds and hundreds of species.

  • overpopulation anyone?

  • i cant wait till this guy starts getting gray hair. Being granted immortality by Gandalf himself? Count me the fuck in.

  • @theophilis Oh, hell yes.

  • @theophilis Getting gray? Haven't you heard one word of what he is saying?

  • @Zetarrino Actually yeah I heard, I also heard that he has said in another interview that either he will be very old when they perfect what they are doing and are ready to use it, or dead. So, my smart ass friend, you and I may not be old enough to sport a head of silver cloth when it, or IF it becomes marketable but he for sure will.

    Fag.

  • @theophilis That may be true, but on the other hand the same technology that keeps us young since we haven't gotten old yet, may regress his aging process making him young again.

    Friend :)

  • @Zetarrino your anti-troll kung fu is strong.

  • @theophilis I know.

  • Ill be a test in that shit any day!

  • Doesn't he realize that if people don't die the world will be over-populated?

  • @jhorneth

    That doesn't mean people wont die, it just means they will look and function like their prime. They still can get killed, they still die because in your body you still have a biological clock that willl kill you. You will die.

  • @Ryukikon i wont die. and batman wont die. we will both survive. and we will have lunch together lots of times, at least twice a month.

  • @theophilis

    lol maybe in heaven or something close. Good talk and good laugh

  • @jhorneth We wait till there's space colonization and move. LOL.

  • It's amazing isn't it that the western world has such a profusion of pricks like this ha

  • The reason he has the beard is because that's where he get's his power from.

  • Sure, have a long healthy life. And then kill yourself. Kids are cool

  • The beard is just a sweet side effect of the immortality drugs he's developing

  • 2:53 He inhales part of his beard

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  • A lot more scientists should be looking for a cure for stupidity.

    After that we can look into immortality, space exploration, cure for cancer, the reason for existence and so on..

  • @Parastasify there is a cure for it, but it's not very socially acceptable.

  • @DarkskiesOfEveOnline well said.

  • @Physc0o Yea :)

    

  • @Parastasify Exept the cure for cancer might just have been found out. By a young girl. Google it.

  • what the world needs is for people to stop fucking in the front hole, or for us to go extinct.

  • i love how the weight of his beard is actually pulling his lip down

  • Rasputin is a pretty cool guy. Why aren't there more people investing on finding the secret of immortality rather than spending money on superficial stuff ?

  • Oh man the pharmaceutical companies are going to go bat shit crazy in order to stop this from happening.

  • How am I supposed to make my homework when this is so much more interesting?

  • @4z4i If you find this interesting, then do well in school and help the man by becoming a biologist.

  • @4z4i

    To paraphrase Mark Twain - "Dont ever allow your schooling to interfere with your education."

  • @dudesonman4200 If only life were so simple... You see, my education is necessary to make my life a bit easier; I'll be able to create a solid learning environment for myself. The thing is, I may have chosen a education level a bit too high for my abilities in my strive to be able to take time to choose the occupation that truly fits me. As it appears to be that almost all things are interesting to a great extent.

    Which then drives me away from what I'm supposed to do for school D:

  • @4z4i I conclude that these videos are probably more important that your homework, you will really learn a lot form this, BUT the most important thing - this will make boring chemistry/physics/math so much more interesting.

    I did not had a lot of motivation because I saw no "real life" value in my lessons,..

    Well now I DO!!! :)

  • @bizbite2 Well, you know, it's not that I find my homework boring, it's just that this is way more interesting.

  • @4z4i You should make this your homework. Then you should have no compromises.

  • He couldn't speak well because the weight of hairs around mouth.........

  • A rather articulate fellow.

  • even if we dont know how to live to 1000 aubrey de gray shows us how to look like we have

  • Darwin?

  • I don't agree with you about the birth rate suspending itself.

  • I think if humans lived onger our society would stagnate and die since old ideas would stay around much longer and unchallenged.Imagine people like dictators like franco etc live for centries no the earth would be horrible

  • MOVEMBER!!!

  • I bet women love to be kissed by this guy...

  • @Kadishona

    a beard like that could do wonders if he were performing oral, as long as it were soft and not bristly.

  • @noregrets92 His wife won't let him shave it.

  • I think one solution to overpopulation is getting rid of this rediculous, arbitrary concept of "childishness". If people learn to have fun, be themselves and do what feels good, we won't feel the need to live through children.

  • We should get rid of money and the monetary system.

  • @ploy3snoy I agree,although it's sad to have The Venus Project and the Zeitgeist Movement separated cause of a stupid misunderstanding

  • @21centimetres what is that misunderstanding?

  • I want to be a scientist

  • Less than 9000 views...

    probably not gonna happen 

  • maybe the beard represents his belief in natural immortality. either way commenting on the beard when this amazing information is here is strupid.

  • I detect... hold on, signal coming in... I detect... a man trying to sell his research interests....

  • I think November is hirsuit month

  • On great thing which will work perfectly is putting demands on people who want to be parents = less psychopaths, etcetera in society. Better parents, better society and people wll takemore responsebiley.

  • I think the beard suts him. It definately suits the profession. :D

  • Well, thats the future, people just won't get old.. people will still die ofc. Car crashes, accidents, wars, starvation.. just most of em won't get old. And the birth rate will adjust to this scenario.

  • You can already start to combating ageing, exercise on a daily basis and have a balanced alimentation.

  • His beard alone deserves a Nobel Prize.

  • An excellent man.

  • @MetallicThor That's not what my statement means, zero population growth doesnt imply that there is no birth rate, just that the birth and death rates are equal. Our total number stops growing once there are no extra resources left to sustain the growth, regardless of how many of us reproduce. You cant use our conditions right now as a counter example because we arent at that kind of a peak right now.

  • @MetallicThor No death rate necessitates no birth rate. Population grows expotentially when all resources are in excess, and tapers off when the capacity of the environment for the population is reached. This type of medical care beckons the question: do we want a constant maximum population with hundreds of thousands of people dying every day, or do we want one where very few die? It also beckons the more philosophical question: is reproduction necessary?

  • In a worse case scenario, a system could be implanted in which in order for one to take the cures or therapies, they would also be sterilized, unable to procreate. But the advancements of renewable, Fusion, Geothermal, and agriculture, ultimately the next step would be space colonization, rotating space cities, terraform of mars, and eventually the paraterraform of the Moon. i believe would be sufficient enough that we won't need the "scenario" describe. Keep in mind Birth Rates are declining.

  • Think of the implications on marriage and relationships haha

  • As for farming, there is plenty and plenty of room for improvement, check out Urban or vertical farming. There are still many challenges to be faced with renewable, vertical and urban farming and many other ideas, but if we can solve the aging crisis, I don't see why we would not be able to solve problems related to the inefficiencies of our use and management of resources.

  • @MetallicThor Technology related to increasing the carrying capacity while decreasing our impacts of the environment has been and will also continue to evolve. Many problems why we are currently destructive is because of the current inefficiencies related to technology and the system. Fossil fuels as you know are finite and have been destructive to health, Fusion and renewable energy such as solar and geothermal will play a significant role in the future.

  • @wawei67 how can someone judge another person just by how that person looks? that's stupid.

  • I'm glad Jesus came back for us.

  • I really love that beard... I feel inspired!

  • It's clear that he has become so focused on his work that he is trying to convince himself that his research is 'the' answer to the social and economical problems he raises, and this I entirely disagree with. "It is more expensive to keep an elderley person alive in their last year of life then the amount of money spent on them in all previous years". There is an alternative answer to that problem.

    Get rid of the economic system.

  • Cool story and beard bro...

  • sweet beard yo

  • The truth in the matter is that if we don't have the supporting infrastructure in place before this were2 to happen you would see the current 25,000 people that die each day from starvation vastly increase. Increase to the point where I believe it would pick up the slack so to speak for those living longer. Since, let's be honest, these technologies won't be available to the poor due to cost. So you still have Africa and Asia's populations exploding and no way to feed them.

  • @imreloadin2 Also just because it would be "economically" important for everyone to receive these treatments because in the long run it would be cheaper doesn't mean it wouldn't create further social stratification. Just because it would be the "common good" doesn't mean such treatments would be immune from the laws of Supply and Demand which would cause the prices of these treatments to skyrocket. Cause let's face it, who doesn't want to live longer? More importantly who wouldn't pay more?

  • I want his beard.

  • So I had a question and I don't know if this is something unforeseeable but do you think there are any economic, sociological, or psychological consequences to lengthening the spacing between generations? Like @Fly2Azeroth mentioned Einstein might live longer but there is still only one of him. Do you think this decrease in generational throughput poses any problems to ingenuity, progress, and innovation by saddling the world and history with the same set of individuals longer.

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  • How does this man eat soup???

  • Ha! I knew Rasputin didn't die in 1916!

  • it's all well and good as long as you develop ways to feed all these people who are going to be living indefinitely...oh, and house them...and deal with the extra sewage they will create...he mentions that we will eventually only die from the same "rapid" causes that tend to kill young people already...conveniently forgets to mention starving to death in a world filled with our own filth...guess that'd be bad for his investors to hear...

  • Do we have the technology yet to trim that beard?

  • @alistairproductions That is what you were thinking about?

  • Dat beard.

  • He should cut his hair and shave the beard to be more presentable..

  • An end to aging would have great economic impacts!

    Defeating aging and having the cures/therapies available to the public will allow people to stay as biologically young and healthy as they were during their 20s and 30s. Because much fewer people will be suffering from chronic age related illnesses, stronger immunity against diseases the healthcare costs would plummet.

    MOST of the healthcare costs are for treating aging chronic conditions.

  • Lets face the facts, healthcare costs have been on the RISE MAINLY because of a growing aging population. Most of the healthcare costs result from treating Cryonic old age conditions. We are in the US alone spending well over 2 trillion dollars on healthcare and this costs have been rising, scaling with the growing aging population. If this keeps up, healthcare costs could take up as much as 35% of the total GDP within a few decades.

  • aubrey de grey = gandlf de grey. Someone had to make this statement.

  • @ilanlakan YOU SHALL NOT AGE !!!

  • @ilanlakan LMFAO

  • @ilanlakan no. it's Rasputin.

  • I translated for an interview with Aubrey back in August. A a very intelligent man indeed. His office is in a pub (probably due to the fact that he enjoys his ale). He has a wife and a mistress living in California (both know and met each other before). After the interview I had a talk with him about my future. I am honoured to have met this man.

  • Am sorry but I couldn't focus on what you was saying dude because I was too distracted by the length of your beard.. I mean how annoying is it when you try to kiss your girlfriend or wife with you mouth hidden in that forest huh?

  • @fabregeffrard His wife forces him not to shave his beard.

  • @enmartinsen

    Over population is mainly a third world problem. Many dont realize that. Now in the advance industrial worlds ironically Underpopulation is the main problem (its been studied for decades now). People having fewer kids and having kids much later in life (esp. among the middle class). It part of the life style combined with birth control education & easy access to birth control. If the study indicates anything more or less people dont want kids. Probably less if they dont age.

  • @mysql0 everything has limits or parameters, when it goes as far as it can, the only way to go further is to become something else

  • @enmartinsen Surely it's much better for us to develop anti-ageing technology first before Space Exploration? Use some logic.

  • YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!!

  • how would the world look like without white people ?

    HEAVEN

    KILL ALL WHITE PEOPLE !!!

  • @xTemplar1 troll or not, it is statements like this that will be our undoing.

  • We know who to donate to now.

  • i hope they invent that kind of things before i get old

  • this is really good, he answered everything in a logical ways.

  • one simple question

    at least it is the most important for me,,,,,i know it is kinda stupid,,but please reply me .....

    is there any hope to extend the life span of human being more than regular,,,,or anything against aging.

    thanks for reading. :D

  • If we do not find a cure to aging, there will be a massive aging crisis looming in the not so distant future. As of now Healthcare costs have been on the rise. This is caused mainly because of a growing aging population. As one grows old, they depend more and more on medicine and help. Already healthcare costs are costing us over a trillion a year in the United States.

    People can pretend all they want that aging is not a problem. But it is.

    If aging were cured, healthcare would be much cheeper

  • My 2 cents: If we are to live for thousands of years, possibly millions, we will eventually experience a period of evolution that will remove the human reproductive system. Thus hampering our ability to re-populate if need be. So by saving our own lives, we will eventually cause the extinction of our species as a whole. I'm no expert on genetics and drift, and there's no proving this, therefore I still advocate Aubrey's research. I will invest in this for sure.

  • @xshalludiex Evolution doesn't work in this way. Evolution works on a species and not on an individual, people would continue to reproduce regardless of the span of their lives due to instinct. By your logic the use of contraception would eventually lead to the removal of the human ability to reproduce but this is most certainly not the case.

  • @xshalludiex Even if we did remove our reproductive organs, what makes you think we would be stupid enough to not have an alternative way of reproducing?

  • @spacecowboy95 As someone pointed out a few weeks ago, my theory was wrong. After a bit of thinking, I've come to the conclusion that he was right. I don't know whether or not the latter organs will go dormant after years and years of underuse, but we surely won't loose them completely.

  • @xshalludiex We have already regrown new fresh organs in the lab, and within the next 6 months to 2 years is likely for the Kidney growing to be completed.

    Even if your 'theory' of organs becoming redundant is true (unlikely), these organs can easily be replaced.

  • @xshalludiex I couldn't give a fck about the species. I want to survive and I never want to die. No matter what you say or do - IM SURE AS HELL GOING TO WELCOME ANTI AGEING TECHNOLOGY WITH OPEN ARMS.

    If you wish to refuse this technology as it becomes available and die, then you are no different from a dumbed down religious person refusing a life saving blood transfusion operation with some excuse "God didnt want us to do it"

  • @mysql0 But, will you go the extra step to promote the research needed to develop the creation of this technology? Your viewpoint is a very selfish one. Waiting there and hoping isn't going to get us anywhere.