Mikhail Batin
@MikhailBatin
What do you think is the most underestimated task in life extension? I tried to answer this question in the book Transhumanism. See link below
We’ve just released the book Immortality or Death: From Entropy to Eternity At the moment this is the best introduction to the fight against aging and radical life extension. The book gives a clear, science-based (over 1,300 references) explanation of what aging is and all…
What happens if you constantly restore the damage to the brain caused by aging? You will achieve immortality
NEW: No technology currently exists to repair damaged brain tissue and fully restore lost function. FRONT aims to enable millions with what is considered permanent brain damage to regain lost functions, including motor control, vision, and speech. arpa-h.gov/news-and-event…
Chugai Pharmaceutical Co, with a market capitalization of $82 billion, has acquired the rights to develop an anti-aging drug from Gero. This is a huge piece of news for our entire field.
BREAKING: Gero Signs Potential Multi-Billion-$ Deal to Fuel Our Mission to Stop Aging -- A few years ago, my son, aged five at the time, asked what happened to the dinosaurs. After learning their sad story, he told me he wanted to fly to the Moon and defend Earth from falling…
Money and capital are Darwinian entities. They possess heredity, variation, and selection.
It’s an insanely tough question: why haven’t people dropped everything to battle their own deaths? My own answer keeps changing, but it always circles back to this: we’re not really in charge of ourselves. In fact, it’s not even clear what a person “in and of themselves” is, or…
Even if @waitbutwhy do read this book, it is super hard to explain by stick-people drawing why humanity pay next to nothing attention to their main problem — death. Can bet $100 that he will failed.
It’s hard to imagine a simpler and more impactful action for life extension than recommending Alexander Panchin’s book, Immortality or Death, to everyone around you amazon.de/dp/B0F93JBB1D
My current to-read list. What am I missing?
Mind Breaking Through Misha Batin, Elizaveta Povysheva 48” × 60”, acrylic on canvas. Featured in the Immortality or Death exhibition, Vitalist Bay, May 2025. At first glance, the painting depicts an ordinary San Francisco courtyard—a typical day, a familiar rhythm of life. Yet…
Trump needs to go all-in on Life Extension — but of course he won’t, because that would require having a brain.
Oh and some food for thought as they ponder this question: Trump has 3.5 years left as President, but I will be around for 40+ years …
If anybody wants to build a local cryopreservation organization, reach out to us. We'll ship you everything you need at cost and train you for free! First packages going out :)
I keep trying to persuade @durov to fund aging research
Transposons in Long-Lived Species If transposons are truly linked to aging, then long-lived species must have special systems for regulating them. Scientific evidence supports this idea. One of the key suppressors of transposon activity is the protein SIRT6. In long-lived…
Never tire of reminding everyone that the fight against aging is important.
Here’s something interesting. The fight against AIDS and the fight against aging intersect at a crucial point—retrotransposons. These are virus-like elements embedded in our genome. Some of them were once real retroviruses in the past—like HIV, which causes AIDS.…
If I had the opportunity to organize a conference on how to extend human life, I would suggest not discussing the biology of aging, since there are already more than enough conferences on that topic. Instead, I would propose focusing on the following question: Which cultural…
Why are there so few prizes for small but realistic achievements in life extension?
The Wall Street Journal reports that Warren Buffett has finally felt his age. Everything was fine—right up to 94. What can we say? Every member of this chat would yell: go all-in! Pour every cent into head transplants, cryonics, full-organ perfusion, warp-speed innovation. Stop…
The battle of theories continues!
My talk at the fantastic @VitalistBay event! Thank you so much, @adamgries, @realNathanCheng, and the team, for organizing it and inviting me! And, yes, aging is a programmed adaptation that evolved to control epidemics of infectious diseases!
Using AI to extend human life and solving the alignment problem are one and the same mission.
Could you try to formulate more precise and impactful questions in the field of life extension than these: 1. Where does the initial phase shift that triggers the aging cascade originate? 2. How can we induce and sustain stable self-regeneration in mature tissues without…