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    Longevity priorities if AI transforms medicine

    One post argues that anticipated AI medical advances could make preserving muscle less important for longevity, while balance and social connection may deserve more attention.

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    A user predicts that AI will help make age-related muscle loss easily treatable by 2046, arguing that preserving muscle probably won't matter much for longevity. They suggest yoga might be a better bet than lifting because balance may not be fixable with a pill, and make a case for choosing social connection when it conflicts with exercise. The post also raises concern that AI could erode people's sense of purpose.

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    @mark_cumminsThere's a gap in the market for health advice on the AI exponential. @bryan_johnson is the most AGI pilled health influencer, but he's fighting the last war along with everyone else. Ditto @levelsio We have AI doomers still paying into their pension funds, and longevity influencers working on preserving muscle. If you have the courage of your convictions none of that makes sense. I cannot imagine a world where sarcopenia is not easily treatable 20 years from now. We're going to be able to flick whatever biochemical switches we want. People will look more like The Incredibles than Wall-E. We already have the start of it with GLP-1s and myostatin inhibitors, and AI is going to turbo charge everything. Body composition and Vo2 max will be a choice, a lot of current diseases will be gone. If your goal is to feel or look good today, knock yourself out, but for longevity it probably won't matter much. Not everything can be fixed this way though, so if you want to be ahead of the curve, work on other things. Balance is a big deal in old age, it's a complex trait that may not be fixable with a pill. Yoga might be a better bet than lifting. Social connection definitely won't come in a pill. If your social life and exercise are in tension, there's a decent case to pick the pub over the gym. Another step back, AI seems like it will be pretty corrosive to purpose. Mathematicians are having a major crisis right now, we will all get a turn before long. Purpose comes from many places, worth think hard about which of them are durable in a post-AI world. The common dominator Universal Basic Purpose is probably having kids (which will trash your health short term, but good long term). This may be the ultimate longevity advice. I don't mean to dunk on Bryan's dunking quest. He is clearly enjoying himself, and I think he's overall doing a service to humanity. I personally love exercise and do lots of it, I lift and road bike, it feels great. But do it for the here and now. If it's a form of pathological savings behavior, your investment return might be a lot less than you expect.

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    @mark_cumminsThere's a gap in the market for health advice on the AI exponential. @bryan_johnson is the most AGI pilled health influencer, but he's fighting the last war along with everyone else. Ditto @levelsio We have AI doomers still paying into their pension funds, and longevity influencers working on preserving muscle. If you have the courage of your convictions none of that makes sense. I cannot imagine a world where sarcopenia is not easily treatable 20 years from now. We're going to be able to flick whatever biochemical switches we want. People will look more like The Incredibles than Wall-E. We already have the start of it with GLP-1s and myostatin inhibitors, and AI is going to turbo charge everything. Body composition and Vo2 max will be a choice, a lot of current diseases will be gone. If your goal is to feel or look good today, knock yourself out, but for longevity it probably won't matter much. Not everything can be fixed this way though, so if you want to be ahead of the curve, work on other things. Balance is a big deal in old age, it's a complex trait that may not be fixable with a pill. Yoga might be a better bet than lifting. Social connection definitely won't come in a pill. If your social life and exercise are in tension, there's a decent case to pick the pub over the gym. Another step back, AI seems like it will be pretty corrosive to purpose. Mathematicians are having a major crisis right now, we will all get a turn before long. Purpose comes from many places, worth think hard about which of them are durable in a post-AI world. The common dominator Universal Basic Purpose is probably having kids (which will trash your health short term, but good long term). This may be the ultimate longevity advice. I don't mean to dunk on Bryan's dunking quest. He is clearly enjoying himself, and I think he's overall doing a service to humanity. I personally love exercise and do lots of it, I lift and road bike, it feels great. But do it for the here and now. If it's a form of pathological savings behavior, your investment return might be a lot less than you expect.