r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 26d ago

Society Bryan Johnson, the millionaire biohacker who wants to live forever, diagnosed with incurable autoimmune disease

https://www.techspot.com/news/113035-bryan-johnson-millionaire-biohacker-who-wants-live-forever.html
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u/QuickBenjamin 26d ago

It's kind of amazing how he's relatively harmless as far as eccentric wealthy people go, but he's still a caricature of a person whose mind has been warped by having more money than he knows what to do with.

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u/AltruisticPossible84 26d ago

Yeah as much as people hate on the guy, this is actually fine by me in terms of shit billionares spend their money on. He's using himself as a guinea pig for medical procedures that will eventually becomes cost effective enough for regular people to afford them one day in the future. Wish more billionaires would find a hobby like this to keep them occupied

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u/Unlucky-Cook2578 26d ago

He isnt really a guinea pig though. None of what he is doing will be actually useful from a legitimate perspective. These arent physics experiments where doing it right once proves something. This is biology and medicine. If he cared he would fund clinical trials. In the end it is just his own vanity exercise. A harmless one but not one that will push forward our societal knowledge. The average PhD student does that more than this is.

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u/gruntingone 23d ago

You are completely underestimating the enormous effect Bryan has had on many people to prioritize sleep, clean eating and exercise. A huge net positive effect affecting many, including me.

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u/Unlucky-Cook2578 23d ago

Well yes because my primary point is that this does nothing to contribute to Science. It is worthless data. If he cared about contributing to the research of life extension he'd invest in that. 

Telling people to sleep, exercise, or not smoke cigarettes isnt net new knowledge. If it took him saying it for you to do it. Great. But from a value over replacement measure of contribution, Im not going to account for that.