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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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[–] Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This man is a fool.

He has been cycling and "cleaning" his blood, replacing some of his blood with other people's blood, taking a hundred pills a day, undergoing dozens of risky, unnecessary, surgeries and living in constant terror of death, for a decade.

He says that he got an autoimmune disease after all this, not because he's triggering the shit out of his own body with a constant barrage of foreign bodies and fear, but because a decade ago he used to eat "poorly" and raising a kid was "stressful". He thinks that "damage" just showed up 10 years later, and it definitely couldn't be the bullshit he's doing now.

I am one million percent behind anti-aging research. I am one million percent behind people doing whatever bio-hacking they want to themselves. Just, don't listen to this guy, he's an idiot. Listen to a biologist that researches all the crazy shit this man did, and disects his corpse.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 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 1 day ago (1 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.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours 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 2 days ago

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

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago

Well, yeah don't think that is strange, if you eliminate stuff like aging and sickness, a random thing like a traffic accident (interesting he picked bus, and not a general traffic accident, or the more common car as a way to die, but the mega rich do hate public transport) will take you out.

There prob is already a science fiction story where a society of near immortals become mega risk averse because they fear falling down a stair and breaking their neck.

[–] Abrinoxus@lemmy.today 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Is he really really alive to begin with though

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

He's surviving, not living.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To be entirely fair, if his books and interviews are to be believed, every minute of every day, every calorie of every meal, is scheduled, tracked, and analyzed. None of these biohacker guys seem to actually do things for fun.

[–] EponymousBosh@feddit.online 8 points 2 days ago

So he may be alive, but he's not really living.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 12 points 2 days ago

Business Plan: "That which is dead can never die" as a Service