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Interviewer: In the information that I've read about you, and I mention
that you know, you think it's possible someone living today might live to a
thousand, why is it "and a thousand?" I mean, once we get to that point
isn't it realistic to think that there might not be an end?
Dr. Aubrey de Grey: So this is exactly why I said that the longevity
component of all of this is just a distraction. It's something that really
annoys me that the media especially fixates on it so much. I mean sure
it's sensationalist and the media sells papers, but come on.
The thing is there is no reason why any particular limit should exist.
Once we've eliminated the risk of death from aging, there are all the other
risks of death we have, whether it's from infection or from being hit by
trucks or asteroid impact or whatever and most things are going to be
addressed in various other ways, so there's absolutely no predicting how
rapidly we're going to make it against these things and therefore how long
people are going to live.
The only reason this number 1000 comes up is because that's broadly
expecting the number you'll get from the average lifespan that people would
have if, number one, we completely eliminate the aging, and number two, we
make no progress whatsoever in reducing the risk of death at any particular
age from any other cause, so that the risk of death when you are age 126
would be the same as the risk of death as when you were 26.
Now of course that's a completely pointless, ridiculous assumption that no
progress would be made, and so it's an over pessimistic in estimate really;
but who knows, we might get hit by an asteroid tomorrow, so we've got no
idea how long we're going to live. It's just a distraction. This is about
health.
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Dr. Aubrey de Grey thinks that someone living today might live to be 1,000. So why a limit at all? Dr. de Grey says that's exactly the case. That there could feasibly be no limit to longevity, but other factors will still be involved.
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