Hopefully youthful health becoming a covert status-signal means more attention and funding to the field of geroscience. But how long will the hype last? Will the longevity movement be sustained by fads? Or truly high-impact papers that unlock unexplored territories in the protocolspace? I think about the longevity of the longevity movement.
I'm reminded of that line from the Incredibles: 'If everyone is super, no one is.'
Longevity is an inherently "convergent" game—sure, a lot of the flashier treatments are still out-of-reach for the average person, and thus fit into established templates for signaling one's status. But that alpha runs out in a few years, when all of our biomarkers are asymptoting because treatments have become more democratized (as many commentators have noted about weight loss and GLP-1s).
When prior status games exhausted themselves, we could count on fashion's flair for 180°-flightiness to set new courses, and keep the games going—"What was OUT is now IN!" But, short of full-on death cults becoming the norm... what's the endgame for longevity?
I'm a fashion designer, but lately I've allowed myself to become swept up in the longevity craze. Fashion designers and adjacent tastemakers have long alchemized exclusivity out of utility when it comes to apparel, and I have a hunch they can, and likely will, do something similar with longevity tech, once a critical mass of cross-pollination has been achieved.
Yes I want to live longer, get older, suffer pain and humiliation and sent to a nursing home. Let’s hope it does not get there. Certainly as it is now longevity promise keys are given to the few that pay top dollars
Surprisingly this is true because an entrepreneur friend shared this with me :))
Haha! Glad to hear
Hopefully youthful health becoming a covert status-signal means more attention and funding to the field of geroscience. But how long will the hype last? Will the longevity movement be sustained by fads? Or truly high-impact papers that unlock unexplored territories in the protocolspace? I think about the longevity of the longevity movement.
So so true
I'm reminded of that line from the Incredibles: 'If everyone is super, no one is.'
Longevity is an inherently "convergent" game—sure, a lot of the flashier treatments are still out-of-reach for the average person, and thus fit into established templates for signaling one's status. But that alpha runs out in a few years, when all of our biomarkers are asymptoting because treatments have become more democratized (as many commentators have noted about weight loss and GLP-1s).
When prior status games exhausted themselves, we could count on fashion's flair for 180°-flightiness to set new courses, and keep the games going—"What was OUT is now IN!" But, short of full-on death cults becoming the norm... what's the endgame for longevity?
I'm a fashion designer, but lately I've allowed myself to become swept up in the longevity craze. Fashion designers and adjacent tastemakers have long alchemized exclusivity out of utility when it comes to apparel, and I have a hunch they can, and likely will, do something similar with longevity tech, once a critical mass of cross-pollination has been achieved.
Yes I want to live longer, get older, suffer pain and humiliation and sent to a nursing home. Let’s hope it does not get there. Certainly as it is now longevity promise keys are given to the few that pay top dollars
Read it while giving my blood for an extensive test. And send on 13 whatsapp groups - all called longevity for cracked :D