This will not end well for him. He's doing a bunch of experiments, all at once, with a sample size of one.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Honestly he should just put his soul in a painting
Therapy is for poor people, inject me with cobra venom
Qin Shi Huang
Good reference
I can't wait to read "Longevity-Obsessed tech millionaire dies of natural causes at 72 years old."
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
Something something Steve Jobs.
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.
All that money, time and effort in order for a 46 year old to look somewhere in his mid 40s.
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.
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.
Kinda like the book "the house of the scorpion"
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.
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
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.
He should try just getting a blood boy like Gavin Belson did in Silicon Valley
Oh, his blood boy is his son.
Unfortunately I'm not kidding.
Oh shit... I sometimes forget how little the truth has to bend for satire. I'm glad my dad isn't into that
Dude took an immunosuppressant for five years to try and live longer.
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"
I don't know ......let him keep shocking his balls. Just let him try. It's funnier this way.
Just join the American senate like the rest of the eternals
No, his body just did that naturally.
This just in, drugs have side effects and aging is very complex.
I hope that guy comes to terms with his mortality. I struggle with aging with every creature around me and myself.
I don't struggle with it at all, it happens all by itself without need of intervention
It's very practical in that way.
Bet you anything he has not tried plutonium. He should try plutonium. Harry Daghlian will live forever. In our hearts and textbooks.
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.
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.
I love how millionaires think they can cheat death, just because they have money.
Let them try. Maybe some of that money will go to researching something useful like cancer treatments.
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.