Aubrey de Grey

8 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Aubrey de Grey · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019 positive
Disclosure
De Grey accepts non-biological longevity solutions if biotech stalls
“I'm quite sentimental about being made out of meat, but at the same time, you know, if the Push came to shove and the work that we do and other people do on the biotech side started to, you know, hit diminishing returns and basically run into the sand and work…”
Aubrey de Grey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 23:00 a16z Podcast | Defeating Aging with Aubrey de Grey
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Insight
De Grey: Engineering maintenance principles can postpone the ill health of aging
“Any machine, and of course the human body is just a machine, right any machine has moving parts, it does damage to itself as a side effect of its normal operation, so one can use the same principles, the same, like, top-level principles to postpone the ill hea…”
Aubrey de Grey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:28 a16z Podcast | Defeating Aging with Aubrey de Grey
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Insight
De Grey: Aging research stalled because scientists lacked an engineering mindset
“I realized that a lot of the reason why people were not making progress in postponing the ill health of old age was because they were going about it more as, you know, lifelong basic scientists and not so much as technologists with a more goal-directed kind of…”
Aubrey de Grey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:26 a16z Podcast | Defeating Aging with Aubrey de Grey
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Insight
De Grey: Fast sequencing and data processing do not create fundamental breakthroughs
“Things like the ability to sequence things really fast and really cheaply or the ability to process things usually doesn't actually underpin the fundamental breakthroughs.”
Aubrey de Grey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 27:09 a16z Podcast | Defeating Aging with Aubrey de Grey
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Opinion
De Grey: Peer-reviewed funding is a catastrophe for high-risk scientific research
“Peer review is an absolute catastrophe when it comes to doing anything high risk, high reward, and also for that matter doing anything cross-disciplinary.”
Aubrey de Grey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:50 a16z Podcast | Defeating Aging with Aubrey de Grey
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
De Grey: Ray Kurzweil is overly optimistic about current anti-aging methods
“He is actually a lot more optimistic than me with regard to how much we can postpone aging with stuff that already exists today.”
Aubrey de Grey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 21:52 a16z Podcast | Defeating Aging with Aubrey de Grey
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
De Grey: Earth's carrying capacity will easily outpace population growth
“It seems to me pretty damn clear that the increase in the carrying capacity of the planet over the next century will way outrun the increase in the actual population of the planet.”
Aubrey de Grey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:41 a16z Podcast | Defeating Aging with Aubrey de Grey
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Supported
De Grey: Amyloid clearance is solved but requires combination therapies for Alzheimer's
“Well, in one case, Alzheimer's disease, that's also, that's very much in clinical trials, and we basically solve the problem. That can now be eliminated. It doesn't have much effect on Alzheimer's disease on its own, but it's a fair bet that in combination wit…”
Aubrey de Grey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 20:26 a16z Podcast | Defeating Aging with Aubrey de Grey
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