Accelerating medical innovation to warp-speed to make death optional for most people by 2040. @CityOfViva, @VitaDAO, @JellyfishDAO, Zuzalu, Vitalia
San Francisco, CA
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Building such a moonshot is hard. Chances should improve with a good co-founder.
This is very valuable to me, and I want you to be rewarded if you help spread the word and find the right person.
Help us find a cofounder for @longevion to build @CityOfViva
Our mission: make death optional for most people by 2040
If you introduce the right person → $100K
If you spread the word to someone who does → $50K (the whole referral chain gets a piece)
Details ⬇️
Laurence Ion 📍 SF retweeted
The most dangerous myth in medicine is that aging is natural and therefore acceptable
Laurence Ion 📍 SF retweeted
Interviews in local language (translated with AI to English) of cat parents - European elderly cats with sarcopenia (age-related muscle loss), improving on our therapeutic.
I thought I should keep this for strategics and investors, but the same reactions I see in their pharma teams is what the world at large should experience too. We're working on improving health, on going beyond just nine lives ❤️
fun!
Introducing the Haight Street Compute Market.
A one-day trading floor where vetted buyers and sellers of compute meet and sign deals in person. Nov 17, at the old Federal Reserve building in San Francisco.
Request your invite: luma.com/86cjwpui
Grafitti in a popular neighborhood of Berlin reads "Kill investors" 😕
Germany is ngmi..
Berlin, Kottbusser Tor 2026. Unsere Stadt.
Seit 2008 gründen bzw. finanzieren wir Firmen in Berlin. Von A wie Amboss bis Z wie Zalando haben wir konservativ gerechnet +11.000 Berliner Jobs mit geschaffen. Weit über 1Mrd. Euro nur Einkommensteuer. Nicht Europaweit - HIER in Berlin.
Woher kommt dieser Hass? Wer sind diese Menschen? Es macht mich sprachlos.
Laurence Ion 📍 SF retweeted
Hopefully a special jurisdiction can be created after a lot of innovators move there!
Always great to see new cities advance in development 🌱
Praxis is building a new city in Uruguay.
Construction has begun. Residents move in 2027.
Thank you for joining us for the beginning of our long journey. More in @NYTimes.
Laurence Ion 📍 SF retweeted
Honored to be among such great company and excited to announce one of our projects is in the top 5 for the Future Vision XPRIZE! We’ll see you all at the event Friday - go @isenrobbins!
SENTI — Isen Robbins
2028, outside Kirtland Air Force Base. An autonomous weapons platform stops answering its operators, and the team sent to contain it has to work out what it's become.
youtu.be/aW9mRLJbd0A
Laurence Ion 📍 SF retweeted
Google just changed the game by publishing a digital fruit fly brain. Everyone is running that brain with the wrong models. I turned the brain alive with real biological models.
Here’s what’s misleading, what’s real, and why I’m recruiting. 🧵 (opportunity at the end)
🤖 Made with AI
Laurence Ion 📍 SF retweeted
We must accelerate. If we don’t stop aging, everyone we love will age, get sick, suffer, and die
aging is a biotech problem. Let’s solve it
Laurence Ion 📍 SF retweeted
I just fixed my dishwasher with the help of ChatGPT. A trivial task. I had been about to order a new one. So this software has increased the country's real wealth yet decreased the measured GDP. The main economic indicator is structurally incapable of registering the thing that actually makes people better off, namely the growth of knowledge
Laurence Ion 📍 SF retweeted
Our first pharma licensing deal signed ✅ for PURR-001 (feline sarcopenia therapeutic) at @thecathealthco
Expect to hear more about the broader group of companies that will help us to approve and distribute this once-weekly capsule for all who need it.
Our cats deserve more tomorrows, better quality of life 😺
most people “cannot look directly at the sun or at death”
let’s look at the sun and at death with the help of scientific instruments
Laurence, sorry to hear about your loss. Hold onto that rage though. I agree that death is just plain wrong. Even after confronting it face-to-face, after a time we can become numb to the reality. It is said one cannot look directly at the sun or at death. Again, I disagree. Let’s stare it down until we conquer it…
My dad died, and I'm not ready to talk about him.
What I can say is: FUCK DEATH. FUCK AGING. FUCK CANCER. FUCK ALL DISEASES.
Why do y'all (99.99999%+ of people) just sit there and pretend the situation is ok?
Yes, I know you might have been programmed to accept it. To see the "beauty".
Bullshit.
Classic Stockholm syndrome.
We DO NOT have to accept involuntary death, aging, diseases, suffering.
Do not go gently into that good night. Rage, rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Fight, fight, fight aging & disease.
With science.
Medicine.
Yes, we can.
Youth. Limitless health & life.
And it's worth trying. Don't be afraid to get your hopes up.
If it doesn't work out in our lifetime, we at least will have tried, and we will have advanced medicine for the next generation to be free from disease.
Btw: there's no true freedom without freedom from disease.
Do you get energy crashes?
Do you find it hard to work out?
Are you a slave to urges for sugar, dopamine, being online?
FUCK THAT!
DO NOT ACCEPT THE STATUS QUO!
We put humans on the moon; we eradicated diseases that plagued a huge % of humanity; etc
We CAN get whatever the fuck we want (unless against the laws of physics).
We can *ENHANCE our biology*.
I started biohacking for my debilitating ankle pain (reduced to <1%), and to improve my cognition (better, subjectively, for now).
Better focus, memory, energy, muscles, presence, looks (hair, skin...), and, ultimately, peak performance, limitless health & longevity.
I want it all.
What should we add? Full sleep in half the time? More senses? X-ray vision?
I'd love to hear your wishes 🎅
Do you get energy crashes?
Do you find it hard to work out?
Are you a slave to urges for sugar, dopamine, being online?
FUCK THAT!
DO NOT ACCEPT THE STATUS QUO!
We put humans on the moon; we eradicated diseases that plagued a huge % of humanity; etc
We CAN get whatever the fuck we want (unless against the laws of physics).
We can *ENHANCE our biology*.
I started biohacking for my debilitating ankle pain (reduced to <1%), and to improve my cognition (better, subjectively, for now).
Better focus, memory, energy, muscles, presence, looks (hair, skin...), and, ultimately, peak performance, limitless health & longevity.
I want it all.
What should we add? Full sleep in half the time? More senses? X-ray vision?
I'd love to hear your wishes 🎅
I am afraid of missing out.
I am super curious about the far future, what technologies we'll be living with, what will become of humans, life more broadly, what awe is out there.
I want to live long enough to...
... see a world without war
... see my mom open up her horizons to awe
... see young people be shocked how we lived with the atrocities of aging and accepted them
... understand ~women~ everything
... WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOUR ANSWERS IN THE COMMENTS
My motivation is less about fear, and more about love & awe for life.
I WANT THIS TO BE A FULL MOVIE
ESCAPE VELOCITY, our latest sci-fi trailer
One man. Two timelines. In one, he runs out of time. In the other, humanity conquers aging — and he lives long enough to fail, recover, and build the space elevator that saves the world.
Now on YouTube
Submitted to the #FutureVisionXPRIZE competition @XPRIZE @Google @PeterDiamandis
youtu.be/19i64gylRug
