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'Hit by a bus': What 'biohacker' Bryan Johnson thinks will kill him (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by supersquirrel@lemmy.ca to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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The problem is definitely that screens are bad for people and social media is inherently bad, not that we have handed over power in our society to rightwing silicon valley moguls with these kind of batshit crazy beliefs, and not just general power over society... power to shape how we socialize with one another online.

sigh

I mean someone like Steve Jobs was essentially the """best""" case scenario of this type of person being given power in society and Steve Jobs was incredibly problematic as a person on multiple levels... including that he believed batshit crazy things.

"He annoyingly feels younger than me!" the 30-year-old tells triple j hack.

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Johnson triggered a severe gastric autoimmune disease by taking bullshit peptides. This is how he will die, and he will die way before the average age of death.

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/longevity-guru-bryan-johnson-diagnosed-autoimmune-gastritis

Wealthy people always think they can buy immortality.

[–] BioMan@awful.systems 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It's really not that bad of a disease. Still would be super interesting if playing with bullshit peptides made things like it more likely.

I had to go on a long-term medication recently and I agonized about it for a YEAR before deciding that pushing my biochemistry into an unusual state while I was still ticking over without severe acute problems was worth it. I'm always afraid of thinking I know better than evolution.

[–] rook@awful.systems 1 points 2 days ago

I’m always afraid of thinking I know better than evolution.

I don’t know about “knowing better”… I think I’d describe evolution as mindbogglingly stupid in ways we haven’t begin to understand yet, but quite often medical intervention does appear to be “how can I trick evolution into not killing me in some unpleasant way, without causing it to kill me in some other unpleasant way”.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 days ago

It’s really not that bad of a disease

His immune system is eating his stomach lining. He will need a special diet and in time this inflammation will cause cancer. But before that, he will need to be on immune suppression therapy meaning a viral infection could kill him.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 4 days ago

This is why you use ~~your kids~~guinea pigs but apparently that's not disruptive enough.