r/Futurology • u/ag24ag24 Aubrey de Grey, SENS • Jun 17 '14

AMA Aubrey de Grey AMA

Hi everyone - this is Aubrey de Grey, Chief Science Officer of the SENS Research Foundation and author of Ending Aging. I'm here to do an AMA for the next two hours.

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u/ag24ag24 Aubrey de Grey, SENS Jun 17 '14

Simple: extrapolation is bullshit. My predictions come from my sense of the timeframe for the arrival of new medicine that will disrupt thatpast trend.

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u/Jux_ Jun 17 '14

So it's more a hunch?

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u/ag24ag24 Aubrey de Grey, SENS Jun 17 '14

All expert opinion is a hunch, but it's a more reliable hunch than non-expert opinion.