LucasSloan comments on Open Thread: February 2010, part 2 - Less Wrong

10 Post author: CronoDAS 16 February 2010 08:29AM

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Comment author: LucasSloan 17 February 2010 07:26:24AM 2 points [-]

Would you consider SENS a viable alternative to SIAI? Or do you think ending aging is also impossible/something to be put off?

Comment author: CronoDAS 17 February 2010 07:32:54AM *  0 points [-]

Actually, I would; I've donated a small amount of money already. Investing in anti-aging research won't pay off for at least thirty years - that's the turnaround time of medical research from breakthrough to useable treatment - but it's a lot less of a pie-in-the-sky concern. (Although as long as people are dying for want of $1,000 TB medication, it still might be more cost effective to save those lives than to extend the lives of relatively rich people in developed countries.)

Comment author: LucasSloan 17 February 2010 07:51:34AM 0 points [-]

My guess is that SENS is more cost effective, but I haven't done the calculating. Does anyone have access to those sorts of figures?

Ball parking:

$1000 buys you 45 extra person-years.

$10 billion buys you 30 extra person-years for a billion people.

Of course that depends on how much you agree with the figures given by de Grey.