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Johnson, 46, is a centimillionaire tech entrepreneur who has spent most of the last three years in pursuit of a singular goal: don’t die. During that time, he’s spent more than $4 million developing a life-extension system called Blueprint, in which he outsources every decision involving his body to a team of doctors, who use data to develop a strict health regimen to reduce what Johnson calls his “biological age.” That system includes downing 111 pills every day, wearing a baseball cap that shoots red light into his scalp, collecting his own stool samples, and sleeping with a tiny jet pack attached to his penis to monitor his nighttime erections. Johnson thinks of any act that accelerates aging—like eating a cookie, or getting less than eight hours of sleep—as an “act of violence.”

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

i think he's making a "pascals wager" type bet on life extension technology. where if he lives long enough to hit a timeframe where they do discover some magical life extension, then he is "saved". therefore, you take every action that puts you towards that goal. if you do hit the magic tech window, then you can have infinite pizza and whatever afterwards.

i do get the rationale behind his decision but my goodness, it's overkill. you could probably achieve 95% of the same "anti-aging" effect he's going for by regular exercise, decent food and good sleep alone. the pill consumption, black sludge and all that; he's asking for a heart attack.

is the extra 5% improvement left on the table really worth up to 75 years of... collecting stool samples and standing in infrared light boxes?

[–] AttackPanda 13 points 1 year ago

One good point is that he is apparently putting his test results online so other medical professionals may be able to glean some data from them. I have no idea if anyone is actually looking but we could discover some secondary result like the long term effects of the concoctions he is drinking or something.

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