Billionaire Anti-Aging Zealot Shares Data on Son’s Erections
Billionaire Anti-Aging Zealot Shares Data on Son’s Erections
The eccentric former tech CEO famous for his anti-aging efforts compared his nocturnal erections to his 19-year-old son’s.
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I mean he's trying to find the healthiest things to help people live longer.
I'm not sure about the dick thing. But he's carrying out many experiments with food, sleep habits etc.
Although you're only focusing on the erection thing. Which seems a small part of the research.
I don't think he deserves backlash for trying to help people generally
Is he though? He does so many things at once and only on himself. I don't think you can call that research.
Also let's be real. He's not trying to help anyone but himself. If he ever does find some miracle cure that significantly slows aging, you can bet your ass that he'll charge so much for it that only his billionaire cronies will be able to afford it
And what useful data comes from one rich asshole trying EVERYTHING? This is not science, it's existential desperation sprinkled on a soufflé of wealth and cringe.
that 2nd sentence is pure poetry 👌
Why are you so angry at him?
He's literally trying to make people live longer.
I don't see why you're calling him vulgar names.
He's trying many things to see what works and what doesn't.
Your vitriol seems misplaced and I don't understand your aggression towards someone trying to be helpful to society in general. It's bizarre.
People are upset because this person has the means to effect real altruistic change but instead is pretending to do science in a purely selfish effort.
I hope that explains it. I have no horse in this race.
It's the opposite of selfish, he's publishing all of this findings to the internet for everyone to see and use.
It's not pretend, he's actually carrying out methodology, posting results and showing what's effective
He is posting shitty anecdotes.
No it's the actual data sets
No, you don't understand science.
"But worthless data is still data!"
On the plus side, we now have at least some evidence that Bryan Johnson is on Lemmy! 🤣
You're just trying to be antagonistic now. It's the data sets. He shows what is beneficial, what's increasing his longevity. It's not that hard to comprehend. What decreases issues, what increase years a live on this planet.
Why would you attack someone who's trying to help find what helps people live longer?
What decreases issues, what increase years a live on this planet.
Can't do that with a sample size of one, because there isn't a comparison to know if it is longer or not.
Longer? And it's not just him, his son also participates and yes you can change your lifestyle and try results and see if it's affective for him. That's still data.
"He shows what is beneficial, what’s increasing his longevity. " How?
How would we know his longevity has increased and not decreased? How would we know which of the myriad of variables, or which combination of variables, was responsible for the increase (or decrease)? Not following the scientific method, won't produce useful data. As someone said, anecdotes.
His methodology is a joke. Throw everything against the wall and hope something sticks. He has no way of telling which of the many experiments is successful, he's a walking collection of confounding factors.
Also, if he were somehow able to find something that outperforms the null hypothesis, and against all odds, find out which treatment it actually is, he could just go drop the performative altruism, go private on it and try to monetize it.
Well yeah he's trying many things at once because he wants to extend his life and live the greatest lifestyle. It's not 100% an experiment. Some of it is just trying to live a longer life through healthy options.
He can read the results for different areas. Ie sleep, how long, when and how that affects his well being.
He's trying to do a good thing and ask you guys can do is bitterly try and tear it down. I think you guys have an agenda.
You can simplify all of this just by saying you’re a big fan of the guy.
Literally everything in your reply is some extremely weird projection trying to invalidate another person’s opinion, and it’s incredibly strange.
Honestly, you come across as a person who hasn’t had much interaction with different opinions, perspectives, and personalities.
It's not an option though. It's an attack. They're just attacking his personality, or calling him names. That's not opinion, that's just trying to smear the guy.
They're bad faith arguments.
Calling him a rich ar*ehole isn't an opinion. It's just being rude.
Why are you so confused by this? It’s not at all as difficult as you’re trying to make it seem.
You’re literally in a public forum trying to project your assertions about another person merely because you don’t agree with them. It’s perplexing, really.
You fail to understand one of the simplest characteristics of the human species, and that is they’re not actually required to behave as you believe they should, and many understandably won’t.
I reassert my original advice to you to broaden your horizons to endeavor to interact with others more and more meaningfully, so as to familiarize yourself with, and become much better accustomed to, the plethora of human personalities. You’ll thank me, I assure you.
Because it seems they're just trying to smear him. They're attacking him for no logical reason.
I reassert my original advice to you to broaden your horizons to endeavor to interact with others more and more meaningfully, so as to familiarize yourself with, and become much better accustomed to, the plethora of human personalities. You’ll thank me, I assure you.
You really will.
If they're even real. So many bots around these days. And they don't seem to want to listen so it seems like they have an agenda.
But your advice is cogent, if it's a real person without an agenda
Bots, by their very nature, usually have some kind of agenda, and that agenda may be to pretend that they have no agenda at all.
If bots are what worries you, you are voluntarily on a platform that you know has bots that you cannot trust, so you’re going to need to decide whether to remain on a platform you’ve determined that you cannot inherently trust, or leave, and by doing so, not need to be paranoid about the bots on this platform.
Which, of course, is to say that there are similar such bots on other platforms you may choose to visit…
Exhausting, no?
Which people is he "trying to help"?
Anyone and everyone that is interested in longevity.
Ooohh I'm sorry. "Himself" was the answer. Good game, thanks for playing.
He's helping himself by publishing the results for everyone? That doesn't even make sense.
You're being obtuse and and I question your intentions in have a good faith argument.
Multiple people have already told why that "data" is useless. Why are you defending this guy so hard?
Because he's trying to do something good. Why are you attacking him so hard?
Publicly giving out information about the erections of his 19-year-old son is doing something good?
You've got a lot of self reflection to do, friend.
You're assuming his actual intentions are what he declares them to be. Hey, maybe they are. But there's no way of knowing that.
But I try a lot of things and fail. So does everyone else. What matters is not his intention, but the quality of the results. And the way he's collecting and reporting his results is undisciplined and unscientific.
But you don't seem all that able to understand either science or the human character, so I'm going to cut my losses and stop trying to explain it to you. Maybe some day, when I'm bored, I'll come up with a doggy-doggy horsey-horsey version and try again.
He may think it helps others to publish his results. Or maybe it's just a publicity stunt. But neither of those motivations mean that the results will be worth a shit.
So without knowing any of the results, they're invalid? That makes no sense
Experiments with a sample size of 1 are basically useless.
I appreciate his data collection and experimentation, although plenty of the data is anecdotal and the number of simultaneous experiments in a complex system is gonna make parsing out protocols a chore.
I agree with you and don’t know why people pile on against you. Is the guy cringey? Sure. Would it be more useful to humanity if he just donated his money to existing and more reputable research? For sure. But he’s just tinkering on himself, which is his right, and shares what he learns.
Is he misguided and a quack who may not learn anything? Maybe, but sometimes it’s the crazy folks who go against the grain that stumble on some good ideas.
Also, if anything he tries is interesting, yes of course he’s just a sample size of 1 - the idea is that other people could research it further.
(I think him roping other people in like his kid isn’t great)
he's just a sample size of 1
And also he seems to be mixing "experiments" concurrently. How does he know what worked and what didn't if he has 30+ variables to account for all the time? xd
Hehe, he won’t know, it’s a messy method. The experiment is “does the kitchen sink approach of a 100 zany things do any good or not.” I’d guess not, actually,
sometimes it’s the crazy folks who go against the grain that stumble on some good ideas
The chances of that happening in real life are close to nil. Sometimes, people who actually know what they're doing are mistaken or mischaracterized as crazy, but it's not all that hard to distinguish them from cranks. And even among those with the technical or scientific competency to actually do things right, people often make wrong hypotheses. Science is hard.
Billionaires don’t help people. They find ways to capitalize on people
That's a generalisation
I’m open to having my mind changed if you can provide evidence of billionaires that accumulated their massive wealth by using non-exploitative practices
Billionaires normally sell something that the masses want.
If it's not gained through criminal activities and people actually gave money willingly, then they're providing a service or product millions of people wanted or used.
Just because people made money doesn't mean they did it in an egregious fashion automatically
Ok, so you don’t have anything actually valuable to offer in a discussion and seem to lack critical thinking skills. If you want to worship or do hand waving for the ultra wealthy, that’s your prerogative but don’t piss on me and tell me it’s raining. Moving on
I'm not and just because I disagree with you doesn't mean I lack critical thinking skills.
What I said is logical
No, it follows logically. A person who helps people can and will never become a billionaire. Billionaires decide, on every day of their lives, to keep hording their immense wealth, where it serves literally no one, not even their own happiness, instead of donating it to help people who are literally suffering and dying from a lack of $100.
You can just say you have low intelligence and fundamentally do not understand the concept of peer reviewed reproducible science.
It’s shorter.
Well then you appear to be the unintelligent one. Or just a shill for the fast food industry that he's threatening trying to make people better.
Because it IS peer reviewed.
Peer Reviewed and Independently Validated.
On his own website
https://blueprint.bryanjohnson.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoprwrlBC5e2ui3tNzT0pfOaOL79VbLq4rWM8ya7XvATJVnYAZ5k
What you're doing is insidious.
You're fighting for making people ill.
Or just a shill for the fast food industry
Show me on the anatomically correct doll where Ronald McDonald touched you.
Yeah but WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS INSIDIOUS! Insidious, I tell you!
Lol this guy's got screws loose.
At least I'm not attacking people trying to help humanity. You're trying to smear this guy. He's trying improve people's lives, while the fast food industry is nagging them sick. It sounds like there's something inherently wrong with you if you support that.
What was that about publishing his sons erections at night?
I never said anything about fast food. You know who has said something about food? You. Specifically "the gay food industry", as if that makes any sense at all.
That gay thing was a typo look it up. I changed it.
Yeah well obviously he's fighting the fast food industry.
And you're fighting him, so what if he's looking at erections.
Are you that tied down that you can't look after your penises health?
He's not busy randomly doing it.
Erections keep the tissue healthy by bringing in oxygen-rich blood - the more they last, the better.
Without these regular exercises, the penis can develop scar tissue over time, making it harder to get erections.
We shouldn't feel weird about our sex organs. They're important too.
You need help.
Am I going to block your dumbass, or just make you wonder if I did?
He touched many millions of lives. And made humanity sicker for decades.
But that's a joke to you. Obesity is a pandemic
He touched many millions of lives.
Including a 19 year olds penis!