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[–] [email protected] 105 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

This will not end well for him. He's doing a bunch of experiments, all at once, with a sample size of one.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 weeks ago

Shhhhh, shhhhh, let him cook.....himself.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is how we get mutated supervillains

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I’m honestly just deeply interested in this guy every time I hear about him.

Not because I think he’s smart, on to something, or at all worthwhile though.

It’s just…. Kind of morbidly entertaining to watch a man spend so much time and money to deal with an obvious and incredible fear of death.

He’s going to die some day, and probably from one of these things he’s paying for to avoid dying. It’s Qin Shi Huang shit.

And, ya know what? There are some truly wonderful and interesting works of philosophy dealing with his exact problem, but our boy is too much of a tech bro to even consider that someone may have found a way to deal with the fear of death a few thousand years ago.

So, fuck it, burn that cash bud.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

At least he's using all of the anti aging treatments on himself like a lab rat. Only he will have to suffer if something goes terribly wrong. And maybe something does work and it'll be actually useful to everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is the same guy that's using his teenage son as a blood donor too though right? That's the part I'm not okay with.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago

That's where I'm at on this. The dude is a major dork for trying to de-age himself BUT, like you said, he's the test subject! There's a long and storied history of self-experimentation leading to discoveries.

I probably don't support how he made his wealth (haven't looked into it) but I support his freedom to do what he wants with his body.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wouldn't it be ironic if through his "research" he finds a working anti aging cream but it doesn't work on him because of all the other shit he took, so he becomes the only one who ages.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly he should just put his soul in a painting

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Therapy is for poor people, inject me with cobra venom

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Qin Shi Huang

Good reference

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I can't wait to read "Longevity-Obsessed tech millionaire dies of natural causes at 72 years old."

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago

You mean at 60 from a cancer with all the sketchy garbage his body had to assimilate?

I remember him taking snake venom injections ffs

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Something something Steve Jobs.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

Still angry about how he basically gave himself pancreatic cancer by following an all fruit diet, then somehow managed to get a transplant before a bunch of way more deserving people. Only to die a few years later anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

All that money, time and effort in order for a 46 year old to look somewhere in his mid 40s.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, he looks his age. At least he's relatively healthy, aside from experimenting with those boutique supplements/drugs. It sucks that he pulls in other people into his cult.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

he has used his own teenage son’s blood to test whether transfusions from a younger person had any direct health benefit on someone his age (he has since discovered that they do not)

Imagine if it worked, though. This dude would have a basement full of teenagers, their blood being siphoned for his own twisted purpose.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Kinda like the book "the house of the scorpion"

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I would have so much more respect for this douche if he was doing all this in a legitimately scientific way with the purpose of benefiting humanity.

But nope, he's just deeply insecure about aging and is fine with burning money and experimenting on himself in order to feel better about it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Don’t forget stealing his child’s blood.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

What's wrong with that? He's a millionaire who's experimenting on himself and reporting his findings? Definitely extreme but what value is there in hating the guy?

Let him be insecure and cope how he wants, he's small fry compared to the billionaire problem at hand

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This dude takes a ton of pills a day and uses his son’s blood, but still looks older than some Asians several years older than him.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He's looking like a Dollar Store Data

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He should try just getting a blood boy like Gavin Belson did in Silicon Valley

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Oh, his blood boy is his son.

Unfortunately I'm not kidding.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh shit... I sometimes forget how little the truth has to bend for satire. I'm glad my dad isn't into that

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure the Silicon Valley joke was based on this guy.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Dude, get a normal fucking hobby.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Dude took an immunosuppressant for five years to try and live longer.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It was kind of funny until he used his son's blood and "more recently, used “shock treatments” on his genitals in an apparent effort to reverse age his penis"

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't know ......let him keep shocking his balls. Just let him try. It's funnier this way.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

Just join the American senate like the rest of the eternals

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

No, his body just did that naturally.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

This just in, drugs have side effects and aging is very complex.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I hope that guy comes to terms with his mortality. I struggle with aging with every creature around me and myself.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't struggle with it at all, it happens all by itself without need of intervention

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

It's very practical in that way.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Bet you anything he has not tried plutonium. He should try plutonium. Harry Daghlian will live forever. In our hearts and textbooks.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Ok, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it was probably just time that aged him.

Drugs aside, that time thing is hard to avoid.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

It's almost like scientists are on to something when they wait for double blind randomizied control trials results before declaring effectiveness of a medicine.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I love how millionaires think they can cheat death, just because they have money.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Let them try. Maybe some of that money will go to researching something useful like cancer treatments.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I just hope that he's got nice decent medical advisors working with actual doctors and medical staff, so that all that money he's throwing at this at least trickles down to people that deserve it.

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