I think both approaches are amazing advancement for humanity, and I wish Greg Fahy would get more funding as well.
Before Jeff Bezos came in, the money was really really missing from the longevity field that I have been following for the last 10 years since I've got a serious rare, but not deadly cronic illness.
Maybe I've got a bit sad when you refered money as not the most important thing, because Gregory Fahy said during an interview that they had to stop the experiments because of lack of funding. They needed a few million dollars to run the experiments, which is nothing compared to the value they can provide compared to rejuvenating people. I was thinking of investing personally, but I'm too small to be an investor myself.
Altos Labs being created is a huge deal, because when the technology works (and at this point there's no reason why it wouldn't), it can save the lives of literally billions of people. Maybe it's hard to see through my comments, but I truly care, and I'm hopeful that both of us (you and me) will be able to use it.
It is not just money, but liberation of creative people from the bureaucracy and limitations that come with the public grant system.
AFAIK the professors in Altos Labs get a million dollars yearly salary and they are free to dig into whatever matter they find interesting, as long as it is somehow related to biology of aging, rejuvenation, regeneration etc. No need to stay within relatively narrow limits of an approved research topic and produce X papers in a year.
I didn't think about that part being a slowdown. The only interview I was able to find is that they are building a completely new lab in UK this year (one of the multiple locations), so it takes time to ramp up experiments.
I'd love them to be more public about their plans. mRNA / viral delivery needs to be optimized of course, but there are lots of other parallel experiments they can start, and we probably have to wait for the publications.
I agree that having absolutely no money means you cannot do research of any reasonable magnitude. That doesn't mean that money has anything to do with how correct you are :)
> I'm hopeful that both of us (you and me) will be able to use it.
Before Jeff Bezos came in, the money was really really missing from the longevity field that I have been following for the last 10 years since I've got a serious rare, but not deadly cronic illness.
Maybe I've got a bit sad when you refered money as not the most important thing, because Gregory Fahy said during an interview that they had to stop the experiments because of lack of funding. They needed a few million dollars to run the experiments, which is nothing compared to the value they can provide compared to rejuvenating people. I was thinking of investing personally, but I'm too small to be an investor myself.
Altos Labs being created is a huge deal, because when the technology works (and at this point there's no reason why it wouldn't), it can save the lives of literally billions of people. Maybe it's hard to see through my comments, but I truly care, and I'm hopeful that both of us (you and me) will be able to use it.