Who Introduced You to the Longevity Field? – Survey by Anastasia Egorova
Anastasia Egorova
I am running a survey to learn who introduced the most people to the longevity field. You must have learned about Rapamycin, naked mole-rats, and Hallmarks of Aging from someone, right? Maybe this was a personal interaction, maybe you read their book, listened to their podcast?
This is a survey for anyone familiar with longevity research and life-extension ideas. Its goal is to find the most influential people in longevity, those who convinced you to drop everything and work on aging or just introduced you to this field.
Let’s find the most impactful nodes in our network: they deserve praise and emulation. We hope this will bring even more talent into the longevity field.
Outcomes of this research will include a review paper and an interactive map available publicly.
Let me know if you have any questions or ideas regarding this survey. Text me on Telegram, X, or LinkedIn / Nastya Egorova
Anastasia Egorova is the co-founder and CEO of Open Longevity. Watch the U.S. Transhumanist Party’s Virtual Enlightenment Salon with Anastasia Egorova of September 10, 2023, and the Longevity Fireside Chat (also featuring Mark Hamalainen) of April 7, 2024.
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My own answers to select questions:
Question: Why introduced you to the longevity field?
Answer: Aubrey de Grey
Question: What was the nature of this first memorable interaction?
Answer: Other: Aubrey’s old Cambridge University website
Question: What was the name of this book, article, podcast or other?
Answer: https://web.archive.org/web/20030331045443/http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/sens/index.html
Question: When was it?
Answer: July 2004
Question: Was their message mostly about the importance of…?
Answer: Both life extension and health extension
Question: Do you remember your initial emotion to it?
Answer: It was positive.
Question: Do you remember if you raised these objections then? [List of objections follows.]
Answer: None of the above.
Question: What’s your level of involvement in the longevity field now?
Answer: Part-time
Question: How long did it take you from learning about the field to starting contributing to it?
Answer: 1 month
Question: Who made you transition to being an active participant?
Answer: Myself
Question: Do you recall anything specific that was said or done to make you transition?
Answer: Recognizing the feasibility of radical life extension in my lifetime was enough to motivate me to take action.
Question: How long do you want to live?
Answer: I don’t want to die. Ever.
Question: Who made you want to live this long?
Answer: I wanted to live forever ever since I learned about death as a child.