Act as if you'll live to 500 - How I'm living in light of AI (career, education, money, etc)

[@UNOBT41N1UM]

Me: Holding Up A Camera For 14 Seconds & Already Burning In The Arm. David Shapiro: Holding Up A Camera For 14 Entire Minutes Without Their Arm Shaking Much At All While Talking Normally.

[@DaveShap]

well, just get good, scrub

[@IAMDEMIURGE]

​@@DaveShap when is your next prediction video coming out,uncle

[@Fonzleberry]

Dave: Don't die in the next twenty years. Me: Trying to summon the will to live out today. :/

[@ryzikx]

brother i was the same way. just wait for the future. you do not want to die now.

[@ilianos]

Don't give up, you're not alone.

[@TimpanistMoth_AyKayEll]

I feel that. Spite can keep one going for quite some time. I am keenly aware that lots of people out there want 'people like me' (on a handful of dimensions) to not exist, or failing that to be miserable. So I endeavor to find things to enjoy in life if only to spit in their eye. (Spoiler: You may end up enjoying life and forget about the spite part, eventually. Kind of a win-win situation.)

[@lilchef2930]

@@ryzikxhow long untilll

[@JuliaMcCoy]

1. Live below your means (it's way easier to go without) 2. Prioritize your health. Body-first living. Optimize for heart rate variability. Money is going to stick around. Capitalism is going to be different. Technology will dislodge the status quote. Your concept of radical alignment: living in integrity with how your brain, body, and spirit want to live. Because we ALL are wired differently. 🎯 as always Dave!

[@DaveShap]

Oh hey fellow creator

[@tracy419]

​@@SergioAbarca9even without AGI, jobs are going to start going away in very large numbers. That's always what was going to happen once technologically feasible in a capitalist society. Companies will have no choice but to lower expenses to remain competitive and maximize profit or else risk going out of business. And once an algorithm can do thinking jobs, it'll be able to do any new thinking job which means no new jobs to replace the old ones. Exact same thing with robots. Knowing that this is true, do you think they shouldn't be finding new streams of income? In other words, what good is your "gatekeeping" doing?

[@DeterministiqueSoftwareS-gy2oc]

This is what I am doing right now as well. I work at a web3 startup and I control my calendar.

[@OceanDrive321]

Fiat money is destined to dissappear. It's being replaced by the absolutely scarce natively digital decentralized asset if you know what I mean

[@tukkajumala]

@@OceanDrive321 Fiat money will die and be reborn, die and be reborn, die and be reborn... It is an endless cycle, kind of like life itself. All the current crypto-monies are just volatile gambling machines, not real monies. Governments never, ever want to issue a crypto-money for a society, since they can not print it and use it to control their subjects. It is completely contrary to their ethos of control.

[@MichaelDeeringMHC]

Diet, exercise, sleep, mission. That's all you need.

[@mrt445]

Facts, you should be doing this regardless of how long you will live.

[@akudowells869]

and love🌎🌎

[@henricbarkman]

Yes! And social connections. That's a basic need.

[@kjmorley]

@@v1kt0u5 You can mitigate chaos to a certain degree: Drive a safe vehicle, change your smoke detector batteries, get someone else to climb the ladders, wear a helmet, don’t play high school football…

[@kjmorley]

I think exercise is probably number one. Someone once pointed out to me how Ray Kurtzweil takes a zillion vitamins to try to improve his longevity, yet probably can’t do five pull-ups. This resonated with me for some reason. 😂

[@xxCrapNamexx]

You'll be doing whatever the agi superintelligence tells you to do at that point. I personally want to be so jacked up on crispr gene editing I turn into a resident evil final boss and spend the rest of my unnatural life as a mysterious forest cryptid.

[@KVUAA]

But editing our gene too crazy will make us lose our personality even our own humanity

[@BloodRaven744]

Me I’d rather be an Astartes from 40k

[@ryzikx]

@@KVUAAthats why you need to practice lucidity NOW. learn about lucid dreaming and clarity in the present.

[@matthewcampbell7286]

If we are going weird biological route.. I think I would go with space whale

[@maiskorrel]

This is the dream!

[@I-Dophler]

Remember the key points from the video: living as if you'll live to 500 years, focusing on longevity through health and financial minimalism, and prioritizing personal needs and interests over social pressures. This involves living below your means, tracking health metrics like heart rate variability, and avoiding consumerism for a fulfilling life. The goal is to live in line with your true self while maintaining simplicity and prioritizing health for long-term well-being.

[@EwillieP]

I never knew David had so many sick tattoos. Rocking the tank well. Love you brother

[@armadasinterceptor2955]

Lol your profile pic matches your comment 😂

[@rodrimora]

I think eating a plant based diet, regular medium to intense workouts, avoid alcohol/smoking. Are the single most impactful actions one can take to improve health and longevity.

[@dockdiscus3693]

If you live to the 2100’s there probably going to be a way to reinforce your physical fortitude to the point where let’s say falling off a cliff won’t kill you. So you’re effectively immune to accidents

[@verigumetin4291]

Some accidents. If you get into an accident at 200 mph, you're still turning into a meat pancake. Or if you starship breaks down on re entry. Imagine surviving re entry with nothing but your biological body.

[@dockdiscus3693]

@@verigumetin4291 nano tech

[@armadasinterceptor2955]

​@@verigumetin4291Your thinking is limited, as we are not talking about this paradigm, we are talking about the new paradigm. Under the new paradigm, you could absolutely survive a starship breakdown through reentry, hell in the new paradigm you will survive many highspeed crashes.

[@net_cap]

Most likely we'll have a daily backup to restore it within the new body

[@robertlipka9541]

@@verigumetin4291 ... well this will be a race against statistics (after solving biological aging). It does not have to be all done through biological modifications. In your example, what if on re-entry you are sitting in some uber suit or capsule capable surviving the ship breaking up and re-entry on its own. Statistically speaking that suit would have just extended your life by a few hundred years or longer.

[@FRandAI]

I almost burst into tears watching this. I’m saving this video as daily inspiration. It’s literally the only thing I’ve ever come across in the “self-help” genre that ever made complete sense to me. Being “neurospicy as hell” myself, I’m very thankful you exist as someone to relate to. The connection you make me feel is very intense and your helping hand feels genuine. Thank you for your work, as always.

[@richardede9594]

Glad you got a lot from this video! David is very motivational. See you in 500 years.

[@dakforest5344]

For about a year now, my mindset has shifted to "I want to stay as young as possible, for as long as possible." I've been negotiating with my diet, and have been exercising in one form or another for almost a full year now. I'm in the process of radically re-evaluating my financial situation, and Yes, I'm now living far beneath my means (and working to pay off my existing debt.) I look forward to intercepting longevity technologies as they come along, but Diet and Exercise are the two most powerful longevity techniques we have right now. More and more, I look at my future as if I'm walking both paths on a crossroad at once. To the left is my normal life expectancy, and I'll die of old age sometime between 60 and 90 years of age, the same way my grandparents did. To the right, my life will continue to be extended again and again, indefinitely, potentially extending my life to 500 years or more. I feel like schrodinger's cat, because I wont know which path I'm on, until it happens. But, where I am right now, I see no downside what-so-ever to living my life right now as though I'm going to live to 500 or more. It's forcing me to think about myself five years from now, twenty years from now, and making sure I'm taking care of that person in the present, while at the same time taking care of myself.

[@eSKAone-]

Exactly. I'm 40 years old and live in the center of beautiful Heidelberg Germany. I inhabit a flat with 2 students, to save money. I can walk to work (ICU nurse), but I have an old used bike for less then 200 bucks. I don't need to travel. Heidelberg is paradise. No car, no kids. I only work part time so I have enough money for my hobbies: Bouldering, Running, Gaming on Sony PlayStation and Nintendo Switch (if our house burns down, I can't lose those games, I own them in the cloud). Life is beautiful nowadays, why would I waste it at work. I only buy cloths when I really need them, mostly cheap. You can eat healthy for 5 bucks a day (coffee included). It's easy: stick to things that have only 1 ingredient, but no isolates like sugars and oils (you can throw them together obviously for a meal) I consider whole grain pasta to be healthy, but you should have them split up in to maximum 2 meals a day. Other than that I eat oats, nuts and vegetables. Only drink water, coffee, and tea without additives. If you're vegan have your vit.B12 and a good source of omega-3 fatty acids (chia seeds, walnuts), maybe vit.D if you're a nightshift worker or not out in the sun much, and you're good. Once in a while if you have an easier day try to eat nothing for that day. I'm 40 years old, athletic, everyone thinks I'm much younger. Take good care of your bodies folks 💟🌌☮️

[@derekf9017]

who TF thumbs this up. sounds like sheer Tupidity and hell

[@I_am_a_human_not_a_commodity]

I just looked at some pictures of Heidelberg and it looks so beautiful! I don't know you, but I'm glad you're living a good life :D Much love from the U.S.

[@harrykaridis]

There are people working on solving death as we speak.

[@ianhenk]

And they have been for decades. It seems to be incredibly complicated.

[@armadasinterceptor2955]

​​@@ianhenkMaby so, but now we got A.I, so nothing will be too complicated.

[@UltraK420]

@@ianhenk Dr. David Sinclair is the leading anti-aging scientist, his prediction is to produce an actual age reversal treatment by 2030. This prediction was made before the rise of generative AI, and now AlphaFold has already discovered all 200 million proteins and is calculating predictions right now for bigger molecules like DNA. The proteins were discovered in 2022, now AlphaFold is heading to version 4. I don't think these breakthroughs will take much longer.

[@Pyriold]

"solving death" is a bit too broad. Solving aging is a big step already and there is a lot of progress there.

[@HakaiKaien]

They are not solving death. Just trying to find a cure for a disease called aging

[@tonyreno3168]

Been living those 3 since 2010. Here's my easy cheat code to the first 2: 1. Wealth: Even if I buy all I could, I'd still want for something. So I just move the want-but-can't-have line far closerr than I need to. 2. Health: Do something today to be healthier tomorrow. Repeat (with whatever is convenient to do) every day. I defniitely plan to be around far more than the next 500 years and I'm over 60 now. Cheat code 2 makes it easy and also works for wealth..

[@lilchef2930]

U rly think we’re on the verge of this immortality type technology? I’m only 19 rn

[@tonyreno3168]

@@lilchef2930 In 1970, watching the moon landings, I thought we were on the verge of space colonization. In 1980 with a nuclear power plant in my town, I thought we were on the verge of electricity too cheap to meter. We're almost at the same state now with longevity technology advances. The only thing that will screw it up, as it did back then, is some politicians deciding to stop the progress. Otherwise longevity escape velocity is within 2 decades.

[@lilchef2930]

@@tonyreno3168 FUCK YEA!!!

[@lilchef2930]

@@tonyreno3168 u think the next 20 years will be like 100s of years of progress with AI and quantum computing

[@lilchef2930]

@@tonyreno3168 with this tho everyone will benefit and be making substantially more money due to economic productivity from ppl and just a whole new industry and the fact we’re all human and go through the same aging process

[@OceanGateEngineer4Hire]

One thing I learned from reading Fantastic Four comics as a kid is that Doctor Doom _always_ had contigencies. The real you should be floating in a bacta tank in some top secret, heavily fortified asteroid bunker, guarded by robots 24/7, from which you remotely control simulacrums of yourself with full dive VR immersion. If an accident happens, just boot up another simulacrum. I reckon you could live for tens of thousands of years like that.

[@mckitty4907]

My life has been a real flop so far. 29, and literally my teens and 20's were completely lost due to mental illness and trauma, lying bedridden and trying to survive sui cide attempts. I feel like a complete failure. The only thing I have managed to do my whole life is to stay breathing another day, stay alive. These videos and these ideas make me feel like me surviving was maybe a good thing, and an accomplishment that will make it all worth it in the end. Like it meant something.

[@dorsia6938]

Take it easy bud, wish you all the best ♥️

[@SnerMerNer]

Hope is a powerful thing. It can make or break you. A healthy life that’s extended hundreds of years without resource scarcity sounds great. A dream to cling to, and hopefully we’ll all get there together.

[@richardede9594]

Keep on keeping on friend. A lot of us struggle with the point of it all, but I think it'll all be OK in the end. Peace.

[@tonyreno3168]

@mckitty4907 Here's a trick I learned when I was at my low point in 2010. I said to myself, "Well, I'm not going to die today. So can I do something, anything, to make tomorrow even a tiny bit better than today. Then tomorrow do again something to make the next day better. Even though day's 1-100 weren't greaty, they were each better than the day before and that, by itself, made me realize I'd make it. Simplest program ever.

[@kylesmith8187]

Keep going! i believe in you.

[@ogapadoga2]

I will start to do larger projects that require long periods of experimentation, timeline etc. Mostly related to space and Post human era projects. The next wave of innovation will be changing the limits of the human body. E.g Flying, limb regrowing, fast muscle acquisition, brain computers, fatigue-less body etc. The future society will look like X-Men.

[@ogapadoga2]

@@JohnSmith762A11B There might be deep sleep options. So you can sleep for 499 years.

[@ogapadoga2]

@@oranges557 Let's see how the world turns out. We might not even want to live.

[@stagnant-name5851]

@@ogapadoga2 If the world is terrible in the future and i was alive and immortal id spend my time making sure its good again so others dont have to suffer.

[@RandallAcheson]

Walking through my recently planted fruit tree orchard I would day dream about my great grandchildren enjoying it after I was gone. After watching this video I walked through the orchard and realized that I may very well outlive these trees that I just planted. That made me feel more nurturing and connected to the young trees knowing that I need to take much better care of them for the short period of time the trees are with us. 🤔

[@tecnoblix]

I have assumed that science would solve the aging issue most of my life. I read Engines of Creation by Eric Drexler when I was a teenager and it was down the rabbit hole ever since. But now I'm 53, I have non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, I just put my Dad into a life care facility, and I'm having to sell my house and downsize for money. I had been a massage therapist for more than 30 years but after a botched wrist surgery in 2019 and other joint issues I have lost that carrier. All of that to say it's hard to keep from self deleting when you are actively crawling through broken glass. Thank you for making this video and reminding me of the bigger picture. Every little bit of motivation helps.

[@Cognitoman]

Sorry you’re going through that. Life is misery, but we don’t have to make it hell.

[@Trahloc]

I'm literally moving across the planet to figure out what i actually need. I don't know how well that reset will work but my life will be designed around freedom across every level I can identify.

[@gareth6985]

Fabulous stream of focused coherent thought. Loved every second and kept having to back up to catch the nuggets. Thanks Dave.

[@Techtalk2030]

Exercise atleast 4 times a week, vitamins and fish oil, eat well enough, manage stress, and sleep atleast 6-8 hours per night.

[@__-tz6xx]

Get omega 3 from algae supplements so you don't have heart problems and are nice the the fish. The fish are dumb but still it would be nice to be nice to the fishies.

[@Techtalk2030]

@@__-tz6xx is there a lots of difference between fish oil supplements and algae?

[@INFP-Insights]

Only one thing to add to this prescient sharing of wisdom: be mindful of the boundary between perception and perspective, between "what I know to be true for me" and "what I know to be true for the collective," as we navigate this difficult and challenging albeit potentially very rewarding transition to yet another Golden Age . . .

[@crashdummyglory]

I think one of the challenges with this thinking is knowing what your needs are. I think we arrive immersed in a socio cultural milieu , like wet clay, and are programmed to survive in that milieu. To then find what is authentic in you, your underlying needs not altered by doctrine is challenging, like a fish is asked to leap out of its pond and see the world outside. It is worth the effort but the interesting bit would be to find ways of finding this "mythical" you, that apparently exists beneath layers of conditioning.

[@SoulSolace12]

I've been practicing the "don't try to impress people you don't like" mantra for most of my life, and while I know it's the best path to happiness for me, it's incredibly lonely. It is beyond difficult to find people with the same exact values. Is it a "me" problem? Should I develop new values to be more accepting of others? At what point will developing new values be lying to myself in an effort to fit in? I've been struggling with these questions for a long time.

[@dariosilva7836]

I have seen the birth of the internet, and social media communities, the loneliness you feel is designed by tech companies to keep people from forming stronger connections with each other. Trust me, its not a conspiracy every major western tech platform has allowed themselves to be engaged in a deliberate process of division so that every time we get a new technology that may foster powerful community building (like reddit) it gets co-opted and manipulated by certain interest groups in order to silence the individual human voice. This youtube comments section and your buried cry for help is a prime example of what is wrong, the loneliness is not your fault. We have master algorithms that feed people reposted content or content from people they do not have any philosophical understanding of or relation to. For what purpose? To enforce the 'status quo'. Anyway i dont want to cry over spilled grapes... whats happened has happened. My hope is that AI will bring a new renaissance in human web communities unlike anything we have had so far.

[@jldstuff393]

Thanks David, I feel like I needed to hear this rn.

[@albionicamerican8806]

I've known several cryonicists who wanted to "live forever," but they then died at fairly young ages and they have gone into cryo a lot sooner than they expected. One of them is an ex-girlfriend of mine named Lisa, cryopreserved at Alcor in Scottsdale, AZ, who died suddenly at the age of 57 from complications of surgery.

[@darrenjeromemusic]

I love this so much, could you talk about the various ways in which we will encounter various other tangential avenues in our quest for immortality? Such as cloning, uploading our consciousness to the cloud, synthetic biological body creation and mapping our minds to those new minds to be duplicated (similar to cloning but with the ability to have a different appearance), ASI directed longevity applications such as precise gene editing to treat specific on demand health needs and many more that I am sure you have heard and thought about… I am with you on this all the way, thank you for your inspiration David!

[@Rakibrown111]

Been operating with the mindset of living to minimum 400 years since I was 16, 45 now. In all that time I’ve only come across you thinking that way. I made a lot of life choices that only makes sense in the longer term so hopefully we are right, as otherwise more short term approaches should have been taken. This is primarily regarding how to develop one’s own mind for a longer future rather than shorter where simply fixing into one thing can work really well.

[@canadasmartmind]

Yes! That is it, at least for me. I was following the steps that society told me to take. This idea of Radical Alignment is what many people are thinking for years. Very good! and thank you, for your thoughts and put them into words and reasoning. Keep writing!

[@JayS.-mm3qr]

It's great you are so optimistic. I don't think we will cure disease and aging in 5 or 10 or 50 years. But yeah, I would love to live to 500, or a youthful 100 or whatever. I need a redo on my life, so yeah, for me, drastic life lengthening technology would be like a second chance.

[@grahamdavid007]

probably the most useful vid i've enjoyed in years - thank you David

[@not_a_sp00k]

This camera is so impressively stabilized

[@runningwithSaul]

Maybe it was recorded on a GoPro?

[@phen-themoogle7651]

I think those 500 years are going to be influenced a ton by AGI/ASI for what we do too, like all the new inventions and technologies that come out. A lot of people might literally live inside a dream world that they generated , and will just think that it's real life. It'll be easy to spend almost ALL their time in that kind of world. And maybe be wayyyyy more stimulating than the real world, like by pressing the stimulation button they get 100 orgasms in a row or something a normal human might not be able to do...idk.

[@vethum]

Yeah, I already live like that. And if I could go back in time to even elementary school, I'd have told myself to quit school immediately bc it was all a waste of time, burned me out and was not relevant to how I ended up making money anyway. Everything of value I learned by myself anyway. Also this kind of lifestyle takes mental and emotional strength to fend off social pressure from family and people who are hopelessly following the traditional "society approved" paths like making children and doing all kinds of stressful things just to fit in.

[@iamachs]

Thank you, needed to hear this, though am in camp live forever, cause by the time we are 500 years, so many breakthroughs would have happened that we can’t start to fathom right now to get us to forever, though I agree that it is very practical to think about the next 500 years for now, and will figure forever later 😊, awesome content mate 🚀

[@executivelifehacks6747]

I know I've been wrong about the development of AI, after initially buying into Kurzweil wholly back in the mid or early 2000s. OTOH mechanically there seems to be some issues with the aging of the human body, it's not just disease, think more along the lines of wearing out. For example, presbyopia, benign prostate hypertrophy, sarcopenia, etc. I think slowing down/delaying death is possible but question the extent it can be done. It would be good if it can be done though and hopefully it can (I think). And I am attempting to stay alive as best I can.

[@phen-themoogle7651]

I've been paralyzed in my bed 7 years so far and need nature more so I get some healing by watching you go into nature, really nice even just watching other people do it, would love to if I could myself. I definitely plan to if my health recovers . Sometimes my heart has random severe pains and although I only weigh 170 pounds, I think I might have a heart attack sometime...but just hope I can at least see how the AGI/ASI thing plays out, even if I can't fully survive the 5-20 years it would take to reverse the dozen of autoimmune diseases and stuff i've been dealing with 50%+ of my whole life.

[@WhyteHorse2023]

Neuralink will enable you to re-animate your body at some point in the future. Until then you might try bringing nature to you with potted plants.

[@phen-themoogle7651]

@@WhyteHorse2023 Thanks, I do have some potted plants, appreciate the suggestion and comment. I'll try some other methods to bring nature to me too. Neuralink looks interesting, but I'm hoping for nano-bots or something novel within a couple years that might not require a brain surgery.

[@WhyteHorse2023]

@@phen-themoogle7651 Keep your eye on the clinical trials if you want to be first. It's working for paralyzed people already. Not some animal trials but people.

[@WhyteHorse2023]

@@phen-themoogle7651 From what I can see it's minimally invasive but you do have to charge it every so often(wirelessly). I think 3D printed stem cells will be able to fix it before we get nanobots.

[@icechewr1]

devon price is really brilliant. & radical alignment is a very exciting concept to me. i’m very much not “neurotypical” in terms of my social anxieties, recreational preferences, etc. i’ve always felt shame for them and felt that it’s not even an option to intentionally customize my life through those emotions. the social pressure for conformity is a really powerful thing. life should never feel so stressful and friction-y, it should be built for your body and soul’s unique needs :) it’s a very comforting message/philosophy

[@GG-vn9qf]

Do you imagine the wealth gap would increase with an increase in life expectancy or do you think it might equalize a bit? Base assumption being most people can afford the base necessities to live 500+ years.

[@olaart3223]

As far as staying alive for the next 500 years, carry some Bear spray just in case there is a close encounter, lol

[@DaveShap]

most dangerous thing in my area are copperheads, and they are fat and lazy

[@StTrina]

​@@DaveShapUntil you step on one. That wakes them up real quick. Just found that out the hard way mowing the lawn last week. Are you in Texas, too?

[@therandommusicguy4773]

@@StTrina Is your user an elden ring reference?

[@StTrina]

@@therandommusicguy4773 I am indeed from the lands between.

[@therandommusicguy4773]

@@StTrina :D

[@ct5471]

mitrix bio posted today they achieved a 4 percent transplantation rate of young mitrochondria into old mice, with noticable signs of age reversal (like wheel running or body weight). If true that would be big, especially as 4 percent is quite noticable for an early lab result, that is something one can built upon. Mitrochondrial aging is one of the most difficult aging hallmarks according to aubrey de grey, and with a lot of crosstalk to the others.

[@lluisfargaslopez9603]

I am 25, born premature(7 month), went through anxiety and depression and a brain tumor. Never considered extending my life throw ninties +

[@Andrew-0815]

Here in the European elections we had a party called the “Party for Conventional Medical Rejuvenation Research”. People laughed about it. Because they have no idea. Or because they reject a long or even eternal life (which I can't understand).

[@robertlipka9541]

In the spirit of this channel I got some easy answers by asking an AI. The first rate is pretty much spot on for the 800 years I remember reading from one of the novels in the Barrayar saga. The others are longer than I expected... and stuff will always happen and one will not be able to assume anything as seen in the lifespans for the Shortest Survivors: Assuming all other causes of death (suicide, homicide, and other causes) are eliminated due to technology and societal changes, and we are calculating the lifespan for various probabilities of dying, taking into account both unintentional injuries and health-related causes: Current Rates: Unintentional injuries: Annual mortality rate of ~0.00045. Health-related causes: Annual mortality rate of ~0.00045. Combined Annual Mortality Rate: ~0.0009. Shortest Survivors (bottom 1% of survivors, 1% probability of dying): ~1.11 years. Average Lifespan (50% probability of dying): ~770 years. Longest Survivors (top 1% of survivors, 99% probability of dying): ~5,115 years. Last One Standing (last surviving person from 1 billion, 50% probability of dying): ~23,800 years. Both Rates Reduced by Half: Combined Annual Mortality Rate: ~0.00045. Shortest Survivors (bottom 1% of survivors, 1% probability of dying): ~2.22 years. Average Lifespan (50% probability of dying): ~1,540 years. Longest Survivors (top 1% of survivors, 99% probability of dying): ~10,230 years. Last One Standing (last surviving person from 1 billion, 50% probability of dying): ~47,600 years. Both Rates Reduced to Ten Percent of Current: Combined Annual Mortality Rate: ~0.00009. Shortest Survivors (bottom 1% of survivors, 1% probability of dying): ~11.11 years. Average Lifespan (50% probability of dying): ~7,700 years. Longest Survivors (top 1% of survivors, 99% probability of dying): ~51,150 years. Last One Standing (last surviving person from 1 billion, 50% probability of dying): ~238,000 years. Both Rates Reduced to One Percent of Current: Combined Annual Mortality Rate: ~0.000009. Shortest Survivors (bottom 1% of survivors, 1% probability of dying): ~111.1 years. Average Lifespan (50% probability of dying): ~77,000 years. Longest Survivors (top 1% of survivors, 99% probability of dying): ~511,500 years. Last One Standing (last surviving person from 1 billion, 50% probability of dying): ~2,380,000 years. These estimates assume the person remains forever young at 22 years old. Answer produced by ChatGPT-4.

[@ryzikx]

this assumes current way of life so it will be less in the future

[@robertlipka9541]

@@ryzikx Correct. This is why the initial scenario considers current death rates in the two categories, showing what biological immortality alone would result in. The follow-up scenarios assume we gradually reduce death rates from accidents and health issues, with the last scenario reducing these rates to 1% of their current levels. This also illustrates that to achieve average lifespans of around 1 million years, we would need to reduce these rates to less than 0.1% of their current levels. This is why, in all these discussions, I always emphasize: once we achieve biological immortality, the next challenge is to harden the human body against all types of damage.

[@albionicamerican8806]

Right now the biggest existential threat to Americans is the debundance crisis. There is literally less & less wealth per capita, as we can see from the tens of millions of American seniors who can't afford to retire.

[@ryzikx]

just wait for population collapse

[@rjsongwriter]

Living below ones means and prioritizing health are good rules to live by, regardless of lifespan.

[@BounceIO]

It's also about having enough resources to afford the longevity therapies when they become available. This is what our current time and resources should go towards, otherwise many people who don't use this opportunity to generate wealth and influence will watch others live forever while they wait for their own death.

[@sahulianhooligan7046]

With all that time, I'd wouldnt mind living in a foriegn country and learning the language and culture

[@Kim-e4g4w]

All good advices. All my life I used to live frugal but lately I must admit that I have been splurging on books for one of my special interests, as low level programming isn't going away anytime soon. But after listening to this I'm going slow down on buying books as I got most of the books I wanted anyway. Lately I currently having been on a good streak on a project that I have been stuck at for years. My thinking is that investing time into making tools that you will need in the future is a no brainer move, I just have to make sure that I keep working in order to push through the hard parts of the project. Burn out is what I'm most worry about as I have had a few burn outs before in my life and the recovery time can last months, halting the project completely. And if one could live to 500 years old then one would be wise to start planting the threes soon so that one can enjoy the shades of it someday. Live long and prosper 🖖

[@kjmorley]

Investing in your self improvement is never a bad strategy. I’d give up most other things before books.

[@ryzikx]

not just low level programming, low level reality will be a very good skill for the future

[@hacked2123]

@DavidShapero, do think that life extension will be essentially mandatory for ethical/moral reasons? I have been talking about living forever since the 2000's began, and I have had a hard time even convincing my wife that living forever is a good thing for her...for some reason people are naturally resistant to the prosepect, in my experience.

[@DaveShap]

Not mandatory but I think that governments will subsidize it to avoid demographic collapse

[@ryzikx]

@@v1kt0u5recycling? that will be pretty simple if youre talking about materials. in the century of programmable biology, programming bacteria that eats plastic will be pretty easy

[@hacked2123]

@@DaveShap My angle on that is, is it morally/ethically acceptable to sit around and do nothing while thousands of people die despite having the technology to prevent their deaths?

[@rolletroll2338]

This is an unbeatable limit: the most intense you live, the younger you might die. If i was biologically immortal, I would do crazy things, scubba diving, flying suit, motor sport, being an adventurer. But if i do that, i would likely die in an accident pretty quickly (to be fair, I already don't practice th, even so my life expectancy is shorter). The extreme opposite is to live in an extra safe environment (never going outside, install tatami with anti-slip strips everywhere in my house, install protection on every edge and corner of my furniture), but it would be so boring and tedious living longer might lose any interest. One solution to that would be to live incredible things in VR, or to get some extra protection for those activities (engineered body to whistand crash, disease and lack of oxygene,, personnal body armor, etc). But are those activities the same if they loose the risk factor?

[@3D_TUTS]

You're so inspiring David, thanks for being you! Love you man!

[@djrabbitfaizan]

Instant download at work, to be watched later 😅

[@ThatOneScienceGuy]

So yesterday I opened a window while I was cooking and when I finished up to eat my food I noticed an enormous number of tiny little flies got into the kitchen through a crack in the screen on the window I had opened. Like hundreds of them gathered around the light. I grabbed a chair (I didn't have a step ladder) and I grabbed the vacuum cleaner and proceeded to vacuum them up off the ceiling around the light. The chair was crappy, it was a small kitchen and the vacuum cleaner is clunky with a long hose and a cable. As I was vacuuming, I realized "this is totally how people die by accident." I realized that I could easily fall off the chair and hit my head. And I realized that life is full of these little moments that can kill you and we don't really think about it. I could have died in that kitchen. I'm assuming Bob Saget died in probably a similar situation. Seems like he fell or banged his head on something and died of a brain bleed in his sleep. So I love the idea of living forever but I think few people would make it to a thousand years. But to answer your question, what would I prioritize? Well, because life is short, I prioritize fun and hedonistic things. But in the long term I know that those things will become boring, so I would probably focus more on meditation and knowledge seeking, probably create lots of art. People spend their lives doing these things anyway, and I do to some extent, but I would prioritize them more. I would probably create enormous gardens because I could see how the plants or trees would evolve over time. My neighbor who is in his 70's made a comment along those lines. He said "I can't plant trees anymore in my yard and watch them grow up because I'll be dead before then." Really gave me perspective. There comes a time when it's too late. But if we are young forever, we can reasonably expect to see the outcome of any endeavor we start. Of course we'll die by accident somehow, or something/someone will kill us, but without aging to death, we can reasonably expect to live the next day and day after just as we do right now.

[@FTayAI]

Interesting philosophy on money but I do have a question. I too am planning to live for hundreds of years; but at the same time, wouldn't the technology for achieving longevity escape velocity will be prioritized towards rich and wealthy first? I consider myself having a very practical outlook on life and I assume the worst case scenario; that such tech will be largely unavailable for the mass market until much later. Unless I am first wealthy. So that's what I am doing. Thoughts?

[@WhyteHorse2023]

At some point insurance companies will weigh the cost of ageing against treating it and will pay for it. For example: right now they do colonoscopies and pay for removal of pollops because colon cancer is way too expensive to treat.

[@manuebg3685]

I have the same feelings, however, without knowing you, I feel that a lot of wealthy people are not the ones that deserve to live the longest. I’d rather die poor, than live a wealthy, very long and egoistic life

[@FTayAI]

@@WhyteHorse2023 I think that's going to be veeeeeeryyyyyy long time coming. But I see your point. Fingers crossed that will come soon but I'm not counting on it.

[@FTayAI]

@@manuebg3685 There's a lot of people who "deserve" good things in life but they don't get it. We don't get what we deserve; we get what we tolerate. We all live the way we want to live; but for me, I don't see being wealthy as egoistic. I don't buy stuff to impress people either; I buy stuff because I am terribly addicted to comfort, lol.

[@WhyteHorse2023]

@@FTayAI Exponential change is weird. Humans don't recognize it.

[@mrd6869]

Under that that scenario,I would prioritize expanding my mind consciousness with the aid of AGI/ASI...So a powerful neural interface is first up to bat. Expand that lane you will by default transcend the physical and begin to evolve. I would fully expect not looking the same after 500 years,so it's about maintaining but rather upgrading.

[@MadMathsTV]

I'm with you man! Thank you for your insight once again! Let's hit the 500! :D

[@chickenwinck]

Yeah, im 24 and professional athlete. Trying to say 18 for as long as possible

[@phobes]

Avoid processed foods, especially those that are high in carbohydrates, and *most* especially, seed oils. Humans have not consumed the massive amount of linoleic acid we consume today. It's incredibly detrimental to mitochondrial health, which is *_insanely_* important for human prosperity.

[@phobes]

@@person737 Human beings are consuming linoleic acid in volumes that are exponentially higher than before the invention of seed oils. Objectively speaking, the human body is *_NOT_* accustomed to this, and it does not have a positive impact on our health. "The science" is complicit in lying us into medical fascism in 2020, the institutions are no longer trustworthy.

[@filipewnunes]

Great content as always, David. One of my short-term goals, directly related to health, is to reduce my alcohol consumption to zero. Additionally, I aim to buy a home near nature with enough space to plant some simple crops. In the long term, I plan to keep studying sociology, economics, philosophy, and data science. And most importantly, I need to keep in mind to always be adaptable to changes in the plan. Let's go!

[@ct5471]

When do you think rejuvenation to a biological state of early 20 or so will be possible? So not just LEV, which is adding (by rejuvenation) one year per year (so like the tipping point of longevity), but when the rejuvenation tech is sufficiently advanced that a 40, 60, or 80 year old can have a biological body again equivalent to that of someone 20/25 years old.

[@mrleenudler]

LEV will be a single point in time. Imagining stopping ageing without also being able to reverse it, makes no sense.

[@WhyteHorse2023]

Nobody can answer that. What we can tell you is that lots of money is pouring into longevity research and at some point in the future we will be able to transition from mice studies to simulated human studies, thereby reducing the cost and time to get results.

[@mrleenudler]

@@JohnSmith762A11B Well, if we stop development right there, new causes of mortality will emerge from the parts we couldn't rejuvenate, so we're not really at LEV unless we keep at it. Cells die and get replaced all the time. I can't conceive of a treatment arresting age, but being unable to reverse it. Some parts reversing and others continuing to age isn't really it

[@tribaltalker1608]

It will be interesting (and tragic) when the main cause of human death becomes ennui. Right now, too many people don't know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Let's hope there's a solution for being an unlit candle... Forever may be too much.

[@davidgough3512]

hence Zardoz, Diary of a Vampire, and the countless tales of mischief by immortals. An "omnipotent Eternal" would design limits just to take form and be subject to surprises, rewards and consequences.. some skin in the game.

[@I-Dophler]

Ensure you take 6 NAD+ capsules each day to support and maintain your optimal health and overall well-being. These capsules play a crucial role in boosting your energy levels, enhancing cellular function, and promoting longevity. By consistently incorporating NAD+ into your daily routine, you can help safeguard your body against the effects of aging and improve your overall quality of life.

[@I-Dophler]

@@JohnSmith762A11B Interesting perspective on longevity and lifestyle! However, I disagree with the idea that climate change won't impact most of us individually. Even if we personally don't feel the worst effects, the global repercussions will affect everyone through economic shifts, migration, and resource scarcity. It's a collective issue that requires action from all of us, regardless of our personal outlook on our lifespan or health.

[@johannesandthestarworld9941]

You’re on the right track bro!

[@TroySaulnier]

Great approach for giving advice David. Thank you so much for sharing. You have given me some good nuggets to chew on.

[@ilooovethetradiooo234]

YOU BROKE THE FIRST RULE OF FIGHT CLUB!!!

[@CodexPermutatio]

That's right!

[@markmurex6559]

It was the second rule I think.

[@KanedaSyndrome]

Stay fit, amass assets in a portfolio such that you eventually won't have to trade your time for money, since the value of your time will go down to zero.

[@michaelgold7166]

What if there is a period of time where only the wealthy can afford life extension therapy ? If this is case what should be prioritised first is getting your hands on enough money to bridge this period of time. No ?

[@ivajov1]

I am glad that you mentioned The Fight Club! Consumerism is one of the biggest obstacles for happy life

[@theatheistpaladin]

Mwabudike Morgan: I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even five hundred would be pretty nice.

[@Vyshada]

I'm almost 30 years old. Neither me or my friends account death from the old age in long term planning, so for me there is no difference, at least for now. Love as you live right now, nothing will change if you suddenly get 500 more years to spend

[@ryzikx]

hello scarface squadron

[@jonathanlucas3604]

I love hearing the cicadas! It's such a moody backdrop, and I think looking back it will add to the nostalgia

[@cfkelty]

Thank you, David. I signed off of the capitalist merry go round after the crime spree of the 2009 banker gone wild fiasco. You are right about familial and societal pushback. Kids also greatly complicate things. My disengagement from the capitalist mindset has been a long term endeavour. I hope to spend the next five hundred years refining the skills I have acquired in the last 15!

[@albionicamerican8806]

I work in the hotel business, and I am just amazed at how many people who rent hotel rooms experience a financial crisis because they can't afford a $50 hold for incidentals.

[@codfather6583]

✅Regular excercise ✅Eating healthy and doing cost supplements ✅Keeping mental healthy by engaging the mind by learning music ✅Reading books to engage the minds theater ✅I try to add to the value of other peoples lives so i'm not a total waste co2 ✅Working on my sleep schedule

[@GBakerish]

Dave, we should really be focusing on the next 20 years.

[@AndySongCovers]

Nowhere in this video do I recall Dave saying not to focus on the next 20 years.

[@therandommusicguy4773]

@@AndySongCovers Yeh this guy is yapping

[@GBakerish]

@@AndySongCovers You're right, I watched it again. I shot from the hip.

[@jamisony]

Thank you for your optimism, even if nothing changes, these rules apply.

[@goarmysleepinthemud.]

One of your best videos. Such good suggestions and wisdom here.

[@AzeAlter]

Every dollar spent, is a piece of time spent. Use it wisely

[@ollep0lle]

That was very interesting, thank you! Also very beautiful scenery.

[@beelikehoney]

When I was 22 women would stop me on the streets to talk to me. I don't think I could survive 500 years. Now im 54 and am practically invisible i don't think i would survive 500 years like that either.

[@ryzikx]

agepill + norwood reaper turns all chad prettyboys into sub5s

[@simpsimperson73]

@@ryzikx AGI only hope for chadification through advanced facial reconstruction and being able to reverse the agepill.

[@__-tz6xx]

Wow look at all the gen-z like comment replys to this.

[@broimnotyourbro]

longevity, if anything, makes me MORE inclined to save for retirement. Compound interest FTW. Doesn't mean you have to retire, but the sooner you start saving the better.

[@MiminNB]

Can't say I want to live on this earth, with all of it's limitations, for 500 years. Holy Cow. I am aiming for eternal life. This isn't home. Life is a gift, and I love my life, but I am looking forward to the fulfillment of the true and the good and the beautiful!

[@igorshingelevich7627]

Heart rate variability. Interesting. Do you familiar with Polar devices. What gadgets are good to monitor and calculate this variability?

[@Simplejidad]

The millionaire next door is one of the books that had the most influence on me, thankfully I read it when I was around 20 years old.

[@VastIllumination]

Love that you talked about Edward Bernays and public relations / propaganda. Great video

[@iconomadtrix]

Denial of mortality is the biggest spiritual problem of all, it makes people shallow in their perception experience and social interaction. So take care of your body and your mind properly - doesn't matter if you think in timespans of millions of reincarnations and take responsibility in the now for that, or to live like you need to keep body mind in good shape for 500 years to come... Be responsible but never forget *you too WILL die* - could be in 10 years in 50 in 500 or this evening.

[@JB52520]

Dwelling on something which causes extreme terror doesn't help me live my best life. That said, all I can really do is wait to die anyway. I'm permanently unemployable, lonely, and too far gone to succeed at anything. Focusing on death makes my aging and daily failure feel more urgently wrong, but there's nothing I can do about it. Futile urgency plus terror is a lot worse than just not thinking.

[@iconomadtrix]

@@JB52520 No one said to dwell on it (or even obsess about it) and coming to terms is not an easy thing by itself, which happens to be the cause of denial of mortality; we all are good at some things and not good at other things, don't take the things your not good at as measurement, some things can be worked others not so much, do what you can find ways to mitigate the things you can't change. Best wishes to you.

[@iconomadtrix]

@@v1kt0u5 Lot of countries where neither the normal upbringing or the education received are inadequate to prepare people for what it takes to get to 500 without getting ill by heart or mind or character... "egotistical" ... yeah... that is exactly where it all starts to go wrong hahaha... to comment on another point you made there are many people who came to riches and found that it changed nothing, sure a few problems and inconveniences gone, but the same mental problems, the same fake friends and even a lot more of those with the real ones gone, long life can be a blessing it can also be curse and to change - even with clear perspective regarding the benefits can be a difficult process, not to talk about the many who couldn't care less 🤷‍♂ Have a good one 😉

[@iconomadtrix]

@@v1kt0u5 "I am just the way I am and that's how I am (and I wont can't change" as a different way of looking at egotistical" is certainly a challenge, change is possible even on a character level, many people who came to money found out that all it solved was the survival problem, it gives other problems, more fake friends as example; what it can't do is to give fulfillment or enable people to clean up after themselves, or to be happy... different game. Finding a balance between the responsibilities towards ourselves and others is also something that many have to learn, from that perspective longer life can be a blessing or a curse... also unaccounted is the problems made by people of the darker flavor of personality disorders and their enslavement to greed for many influence and power; that could become an even bigger problem then we already have... "existential anxiety and constant stress about not dying" interesting concept, easily comparable to being trapped on the wheel of constant rebirth... latter has the convenience of not having to remember everything all the time but to compartmentalize memories between births... Have a good one 😉

[@NotFinancialAdvice]

Or 5,000...

[@ExtantFrodo2]

At 67, expecting to live far longer than insurance actuaries estimate I am not averse to starting projects that will take 100+ years to complete. This of course as with almost everything begins with not just getting educated enough to deal with my list of projects, but learning anything and everything I can get my hands on. My advice to anyone embarking on this approach is start with math. There might be a lot you can learn without it, but there is far too much you won't be able to learn if you don't first have the necessary math preinstalled. There is no reason to stall getting whatever education you need regardless how old or young you are. "Knowledge IS Power". Knowledge let's you toss the crutches of dependence on the "expertice" of others (or at least to know when you are being scammed). There really is no substitute or shortcut, but there's also no reason your learning can't be an enjoyable, very fun adventure. Good luck to you all. I hope to see you all sometime in the next thousand years or so.

[@ExtantFrodo2]

@@JohnSmith762A11B what you don't learn CAN hurt you.

[@starblaiz1986]

100% agree with everything here. Live healthy and like you are going to live for 500 years (or millennia). There's no downside, because even if you live a normal lifespan, it will still mean you live as long a normal lifespan as possible. As the saying goes: “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” ~Les Brown ❤

[@TheDominator303]

@daveshap what part of the country do you live in. Love the hikes through dense forest next to the creek.

[@BradleyKieser]

Well said. "Live below your means".

[@ShadowWhispersStories]

You forgot to think about that in 500 years we'll be so far advanced that even a severe car accident (assuming there is cars) could be like putting a bandaid on. So, even if your risk of dying from an accident is 99.99% at any given moment society will be so far advanced in medicine and technology that accidents won't be such a catastrophic thing like today.

[@forevergreen4]

Thanks for your videos David. I needed to hear this today. You seem to have your life well figured out with regard to the topics you mentioned such as alignment. Can you recommend some books you've read that helped you along the way? I really need to start living like this.

[@Pash2024]

A plenty out of this topic was researched by less known to the West generation of Soviet Sci-Fi writers like Efremov, Belyaev, Kazantsev, Strugatskie. They were attempting, since the 1930s, to imagine how the perfect future world would look like, including lifestyles, health, teaching, and social relations. I wonder how many of their thoughts are rediscovered now.

[@maxb5640]

And 50k is in US! There are many beautiful places in the world where you can live same or even higher quality life on $15k

[@m.g.9334]

have you seen „Under the silverlake“? As a teenager, i was also very heavily influenced by fightclub, you will love „Under the silverlake“ but dont spoil your self with anything

[@queenmaria2878]

I'm 94. Not hard to die within 10 years max. Okay for your children.

[@lilchef2930]

What do u credit your long life to

[@the42nd]

Wow another epic, thought provoking, insightful discussion.

[@michelcote]

I would be a lot more encline to protect the environement. I would have 2 kids. And continue saving to be financially free. I would releive pressure to experience as much as possible in our short time we have here.