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[–] rimu@piefed.social 101 points 4 months ago (3 children)

This will not end well for him. He's doing a bunch of experiments, all at once, with a sample size of one.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 63 points 4 months ago

Shhhhh, shhhhh, let him cook.....himself.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is how we get mutated supervillains

[–] Agrivar@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago
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[–] Norin@lemmy.world 75 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I’m honestly just deeply interested in this guy every time I hear about him.

Not because I think he’s smart, on to something, or at all worthwhile though.

It’s just…. Kind of morbidly entertaining to watch a man spend so much time and money to deal with an obvious and incredible fear of death.

He’s going to die some day, and probably from one of these things he’s paying for to avoid dying. It’s Qin Shi Huang shit.

And, ya know what? There are some truly wonderful and interesting works of philosophy dealing with his exact problem, but our boy is too much of a tech bro to even consider that someone may have found a way to deal with the fear of death a few thousand years ago.

So, fuck it, burn that cash bud.

[–] Famko@lemmy.world 46 points 4 months ago (3 children)

At least he's using all of the anti aging treatments on himself like a lab rat. Only he will have to suffer if something goes terribly wrong. And maybe something does work and it'll be actually useful to everyone else.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

That's where I'm at on this. The dude is a major dork for trying to de-age himself BUT, like you said, he's the test subject! There's a long and storied history of self-experimentation leading to discoveries.

I probably don't support how he made his wealth (haven't looked into it) but I support his freedom to do what he wants with his body.

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is the same guy that's using his teenage son as a blood donor too though right? That's the part I'm not okay with.

[–] Famko@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Yeah that one was a bit fucked up, but at least he isn't doing it anymore after finding out it does absolutely fuck all for him.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't it be ironic if through his "research" he finds a working anti aging cream but it doesn't work on him because of all the other shit he took, so he becomes the only one who ages.

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 15 points 4 months ago

Honestly he should just put his soul in a painting

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 7 points 4 months ago

Qin Shi Huang

Good reference

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 49 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I can't wait to read "Longevity-Obsessed tech millionaire dies of natural causes at 72 years old."

[–] innermeerkat@jlai.lu 33 points 4 months ago

You mean at 60 from a cancer with all the sketchy garbage his body had to assimilate?

I remember him taking snake venom injections ffs

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Something something Steve Jobs.

[–] jonne 20 points 4 months ago

Still angry about how he basically gave himself pancreatic cancer by following an all fruit diet, then somehow managed to get a transplant before a bunch of way more deserving people. Only to die a few years later anyway.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 34 points 4 months ago (2 children)

All that money, time and effort in order for a 46 year old to look somewhere in his mid 40s.

[–] Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Yeah, he looks his age. At least he's relatively healthy, aside from experimenting with those boutique supplements/drugs. It sucks that he pulls in other people into his cult.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I would have so much more respect for this douche if he was doing all this in a legitimately scientific way with the purpose of benefiting humanity.

But nope, he's just deeply insecure about aging and is fine with burning money and experimenting on himself in order to feel better about it.

[–] Burghler@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 months ago (3 children)

What's wrong with that? He's a millionaire who's experimenting on himself and reporting his findings? Definitely extreme but what value is there in hating the guy?

Let him be insecure and cope how he wants, he's small fry compared to the billionaire problem at hand

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[–] stoly@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Don’t forget stealing his child’s blood.

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[–] hmonkey@lemy.lol 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He should try just getting a blood boy like Gavin Belson did in Silicon Valley

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 47 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Oh, his blood boy is his son.

Unfortunately I'm not kidding.

[–] hmonkey@lemy.lol 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh shit... I sometimes forget how little the truth has to bend for satire. I'm glad my dad isn't into that

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure the Silicon Valley joke was based on this guy.

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[–] scytale@lemm.ee 23 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This dude takes a ton of pills a day and uses his son’s blood, but still looks older than some Asians several years older than him.

[–] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He's looking like a Dollar Store Data

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Dude, get a normal fucking hobby.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

If you're immortal, your can play through ALL normal hobbies - twice!

Check mate, mortal!

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[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Dude took an immunosuppressant for five years to try and live longer.

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[–] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It was kind of funny until he used his son's blood and "more recently, used “shock treatments” on his genitals in an apparent effort to reverse age his penis"

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 36 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't know ......let him keep shocking his balls. Just let him try. It's funnier this way.

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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 14 points 4 months ago

Just join the American senate like the rest of the eternals

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 14 points 4 months ago

No, his body just did that naturally.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

This just in, drugs have side effects and aging is very complex.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I hope that guy comes to terms with his mortality. I struggle with aging with every creature around me and myself.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't struggle with it at all, it happens all by itself without need of intervention

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

It's very practical in that way.

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[–] lustyargonian@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago

It's almost like scientists are on to something when they wait for double blind randomizied control trials results before declaring effectiveness of a medicine.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Ok, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it was probably just time that aged him.

Drugs aside, that time thing is hard to avoid.

[–] sepi@piefed.social 9 points 4 months ago

Bet you anything he has not tried plutonium. He should try plutonium. Harry Daghlian will live forever. In our hearts and textbooks.

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I love how millionaires think they can cheat death, just because they have money.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 months ago

Let them try. Maybe some of that money will go to researching something useful like cancer treatments.

[–] lipilee@feddit.nl 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I just hope that he's got nice decent medical advisors working with actual doctors and medical staff, so that all that money he's throwing at this at least trickles down to people that deserve it.

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[–] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I do think that aging is something we can overcome. It'll take some exponential jumps in research/technology for it to happen in our lifetime though. What worries me is the ultra wealthy hoarding that discovery for themselves.

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