A more comprehensive entry will follow later — after the actual Main Event takes place — but I couldn’t resist the opportunity to engage in my first round of live blogging at the Future Salon Science and Ethics of Longevity Research presentation.

Much thanks to SAP in Palo Alto for hosting. It is nice to see so many people interested in longevity, regardless of what side they come out on. Certainly, a debate between Aubrey deGrey and William Hurlburt is a tremendous opportunity for anyone wanting to learn more about the various ethical topics associated with life extension. I look forward to seeing how the presentation goes.

EDIT: I will write a separate, more comprehensive entry tomorrow once I’ve gotten some sleep, but I did want to say that the presentation, while it seemed a bit rushed at times, was indeed well worth attending. I would also like to apologize to anyone who I might have managed to annoy with my Random Saying of Stuff that happened near the end of Mr. Hurlburt’s talk. It’s just very difficult to not at least engage in vigorous squirming when the person at the front of the room is commenting on the “unmanliness” of life extension (not a man here, so does that mean I’m excused?).

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