as it turns out, a mountain of health woo and transfusing your teenage son’s blood into yourself is no match for long covid

Did he get all the vaccines?
Stop using ampersands.
- STOP USING AMPERSANDS
  years of typography but no practical use found for fancy and
  wanted to write shorter sentences anyway for a laugh? we had a tool for that: it’s called “emojis”
  “yes, please give me some A&W root beer to wash down my mac & cheese” — statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
  look at what the ampersand users have been demanding our Respect for this whole time, with all the & & & we’ve built for them:
  they have played us for absolute fools

Eats the same bland meal every day of his life. Takes an ungodly number of pills every morning. Uses his son as his own personal blood boy. Has given himself a physical appearance that can only be described as "uncanny valley".

I'll never understand the extremes some of these tech bros will go to deny the inevitability of death.

Why isn't there a tech bro equivalent of Battle Creek Sanitarium yet.
- It's been decentralized.

I guess this counts as long Covid, although I associate it more with brain fog and similar symptoms.

Either way, "lung capacity of an 18-year-old" and "15% loss of lung capacity" can't both be true, unless he's suggesting he started with super-lungs.

Or he now has the lung capacity of a 15% smaller 18 year old.
- a large lung the size of a small lung
- Tbqh I think a lot of the "long covid" symptoms are just things people weren't treating before.

Has any of the life extension space produced anything like, real?

the supposed life extending properties of a glass of red wine every day are an excellent way to turn a wine mom into a full blown alcoholic
My information is about a decade out of date, for reasons which I will explain later because it is an interesting and semi related story. But I recall from the days that humanity+ magazine still posted blog articles that there were about seven processes in the human body that causes aging (don't ask me which seven or how to evaluate the research so take this all with a bit of salt). And I'd assume that all seven of them are important and need to be dealt with at the same time. Also there was interesting and effective life extension research done on mice with both low kcal (but that didn't research life quality) and blood transfusions, but I have no idea if this ever scales up to humans. A long time ago SSC did find a 'all those nootropics you take, how effective are they really according to the science?' site and iirc the only thing that really was effective (for being more productive/smart as that is the focus of LW) was caffeine, and some minor others but 90% of them didn't work (sadly I don't hve a link, but iirc this was based on actual science and not the normal SSC selfreports (which it did slightly match iirc but the self reports had a lot of 'I touched grass', 'I worked out', 'I took the meds my doc said I should take', and 'I slept a normal amount' things which also were effective nothing really groundbreaking seems there isn't an easy hack (which should loop back into the anti-aging thing which I assume there also isn't an easy hack, so Quikin is right, eat those veggies).
- Wasn’t Racheal Haywire involved with that?
- none of Aubrey de Grey's longevity stuff really worked out, and then he got kicked out of the org he founded for sexual harassment
- Has anyone else told you that the nested parentheses make your writing hard to read? Not a sarcastic or rhetorical question, I genuinely don't know if I'm the only one who has a hard time with them, especially when you don't close them lol
Eating green leafy vegetables correlates with longer lifespan.
Any thoughts on how you'd define real?
- Non-woo, actually does something good.

Now just take the blood you’ve stored in your covid free child b a c k, and give him his old sick blood back…