BIOTECH

“Stories about aging have traditionally focused on the need for graceful accommodation. The recommended solution to diminishing vigor and impending death was resignation coupled with an effort to achieve closure in practical affairs and personal relationships. Given that nothing could be done to prevent or retard aging, this focus made sense. Rather than fretting about the inevitable, one could aim for peace of mind. Today we face a different situation. While we still lack effective and acceptable means for slowing the aging process, we can identify research directions that might lead to the development of such means in the foreseeable future. “Deathist” stories and ideologies, which counsel passive acceptance, are no longer harmless sources of consolation. They are fatal barriers to urgently needed action.” Nick Bostrom

Longevity

Longevity FAQ - Nintil. Covers major longevity concepts and misconceptions.
Fight Aging FAQ - Reason. Covers major longevity concepts and misconceptions.
Longevity FAQ - Laura Deming. Covers main longevity concepts and misconceptions.
Longevity Technology - Aaron King. An overview of the state of the art and major challenges in longevity.
How to Cure Aging, What Are You Doing With Your Life? - Kurzgesagt. Explainer videos on aging.
Your Life in Weeks, You’re at the tail end of your life - Tim Urban. Post that breaks down a human life into weeks, and breaks down time remaining into chunks of experiences to be had.
Transhumanism and Healthy Life Extension, The Million Year Lifespan - Reason. On ambitious plans for human health extension.
It Is Time To Classify Biological Aging as a Disease - NCBI. On the benefits of classifying aging as a disease, especially for FDA approval of aging drugs.
A Systematized Roadmap for the Longevity Industry - Biogerontology Research Foundation.
Biotech & Healthextension Focus - Foresight Institute. Recordings and seminar summaries of monthly seminars on longevity research, companies, funding.
A Reimagined Research Strategy for Aging - SENS. Dated but still considered a good overview of main aging areas to solve.
How to Start a Biotech Company in the Longevity Industry - Reason. Practical advice for entrepreneurs in the longevity space.
A Nuanced Opposition to the FDA - Reason. Why the current FDA drug approval process is a major roadblock on advancing longevity progress.
100 Plus - How The Coming Age of Longevity will change everything - Sonia Arrison. Thematic overview of how major areas in our lives will be changed with increased healthspans.
AI in Life-Extension: From Deep Learning to Superintelligence - Mikhail Batin et al. From near-term benefits of AI for longevity to potential futuristic implications of AI for longevity.
Michael Lustgarten, BluePrint, SlowMyAge, Howisfelix.today - Personal longevity tracking and improvement blogs.
Senescence.info - Website. Overview of the longevity field.
Lifespan.io - Website. Explainers, news, roadmaps, and other resources.
Creon’s Life Extension References - Creon Levit. Link list on life extension and diet.
The Ethics of Ageing Biology – Andrew Steele. Blog exploring science, technology, and the complexities of getting older without getting old

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Cryonics

Why Cryonics Makes Sense - Tim Urban. A primer on why it makes sense to sign up to cryonics.
Cryonics - Reason. A brief explainer on the main concepts and controversies in cryonics.
Cryostasis Revival - Robert Freitas. Book about nanomedicine for revival.
Cryonics: Alcor FAQ - Alcor. An FAQ about cryonics, and about the practices of the provider Alcor.
Alcor vs. Cryonics Institute - Lesswrong. A comparison of Alcor versus the Cryonics Institute as providers for cryonics services. Now there is also TomorrowBiostasis, a European Cryonics Company.
Cryonics Q&A & Sign-up - Foresight Institute. A sign-up tutorial with Alcor and TomorrowBiostasis.
Winter is Coming : the Future of Cryonics Preservation – Sanja Bojic, et al. Reviews current cryopreservation methods and explores future prospects in the context of organ transplantation and regenerative medicine.
Cryonics Cost-Benefit Analysis – Niplav. Cost-benefit analysis on whether it's worth it to invest money into cryonics, and if it's smart to sign up for it now or wait until later.

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Biotech

Benefits & Risks of Biotechnology - FLI. Introductory post with link list.
Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves - George Church. An optimistic outlook into biotechnology’s promises by one of the pioneers of the field.
Liberation Biology: The Scientific and Moral Case for the Biotech Revolution - Ronald Bailey. A moral argument in favor of advancing biotechnology.
Life As It Could Be: Astrobiology, Synthetic Biology, and the Future of Life - Library of Congress. A longish but interesting live stream of a synbio conference giving a good overview of the state of the art in the field.
CRISPR - Kurzgesagt. Illustrative explainer video on CRISPR and designer babies.

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Biotech

Biosecurity - EA Forum. Landing page to EA’s biosecurity section with intro to the topic and a list of links, such as A Biosecurity and Biorisk Reading List - Tessa Alexanian.
Existential Risk and Cost-effective Biosecurity - Piers Millett and Andrew Snyder-Beattie. Focuses on addressing risks from bioweapons.
Insidious Insights: Implications of Viral Vector Engineering for Pathogen Enhancement - Jonas Sandbrink et al. On dual-use insights relevant to the enhancement of pandemic pathogens.
Engineering the Apocalypse, Recipes for Future Plagues - Rob Reid, Sam Harris. Podcast episodes with transcripts on biosecurity and pandemics.

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Longevity

The Fable of the Dragon Tyrant - Nick Bostrom. Much-cherished fairy-tale-like story illustrating the loss incurred by aging and our deathist acceptance.
Childhood’s End - Arthur C. Clarke. Fictional account of the end of death.
San Junipero - BlackMirror. About a love story in the afterlife.
Death & Anti-Death Series - Charles Tandy. Dated but contains various optimistic longevity-focused contributions.
Altered Carbon - TV series. Not always positive.
In Time - Movie. A society in which people stop aging.
Longevity Tree 1, Longevity Tree 2, Biotech Tree - Foresight Institute. Technology trees to reach escape velocity in longevity.

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Biotech

The Hedonistic Imperative - David Pearce. A manifesto-like book on the benefits of biotech, neurotech, and similar technologies to enable humans escape our hedonic treadmill.
The Transhumanist Reader - Natasha Vita-More, Max More. A now dated book with various chapter contributions by major transhumanist writers.
Crazy Ideas for Future Synbio & Bioengineering - Stephen Malina. Lists potential future goals and applications in biotechnology.
Envisioning a world immune to global catastrophic biological risks – Carl Schulman, Reflective Disequilibrium. Discusses how DNA/RNA sequencing technology presents a pathway to early detection and containment of pathogens, which could manage both natural pandemics and future biological attacks.

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Longevity

FightAging has an extensive list of funds, nonprofits and blogs of interest listed on the right-handside and is itself a great resource.
Agingbiotechinfo - Karl Pfleger. Covers companies, conferences, diagnostics, resources, and more.
Longevity List - Nathan Cheng. Newsletter and list on major longevity companies.
Longevity Prize - VitaDAO & Foresight Institute. Awarding outstanding progress in longevity research — crowdsourced and curated by leading industry experts.

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Biotech

Cambridge Working Group - “Works to address the risks of Potential Pandemic Pathogen research through promoting public understanding, risk assessment and regulation of such research.
Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) - Develops and procures needed medical countermeasures (MCMs), including vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics, and non-pharmaceutical countermeasures, against a broad array of public health emergencies in the US.

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