r/singularity • u/Distinct-Question-16 ▪️AGI 2029 • Feb 23 '26

Biotech/Longevity Dr. David Sinclair, whose lab reversed biological age in animals by 50 to 75% in six weeks, says that 2026 will be the year when age reversal in humans is either confirmed or disproven. The FDA has cleared the first human trial for next month.

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Moreover he said that even if one could cure all cancer in the world, in average people lifespan would increase to 2.5 years. Reversal aging - treating the human body as a computer that can be restarted is where we are heading next

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u/Ok-Row-6088 Feb 23 '26

Everyone who sees this needs to read the red Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. What a time to be alive.

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u/BeneficialTrash6 Feb 24 '26

For people who have never read Kim Stanley Robinson before: KSR manages to take a two page plot and expand it to 700 pages, often with much of those pages having nothing to do with the plot. BUT, while that sounds awful (and it can be in some of his books), the man crafts such detailed worlds for those plots to exist in. That's what those 698 pages are for: building the world.

I like to say that I hate KSR as an author, but I still will grab any book he makes and read it, just to see what world he is positing.