Or just nootropics. If there's more smart people then additional anti-ageing tech will follow—since all arguments against said tech are fallacious; even if they seem reasonable prima facie!
Also, the creation of nootropics which offer greater upgrades to cognition should be a priority. There have been a few promising chemical such as PRL-8-53[0], but when people have tried such chemicals on themselves they haven't lived up to their promise.
Nothing to do with me. I plan on purchasing the results.
> If it's not very much, that's not a fallacy, it's a demonstration.
Rats' lifespans have been doubled[0]. And there are medications which are used for other conditions being looked at: like rapamycin (or the development of a variant), and metformin.
There are also supplements like the newly released nicotinamide riboside.
Plus, people such as Google (via Calico) are developing treatments targeting the longevity gene FOXO3.
The area is vast. And you've just demonstrated my point. What you've said sounds reasonable, but is actually bullshit.
[0] http://www.kurzweilai.net/fullerene-c60-administration-doubl...
Edit: Grammar.
How is something in medicine proven? It's not with deduction, it's with induction! So nothing in medicine is proven with 100% certainty. What's left is probability! Even as an anonymous nobody, I'm able to point to hints of life extension in humans today, or 100% increase in lifespan of mammals! Or the work being done on various vectors; ranging from the slowing of ageing, via metabolism, to the reversal of ageing!
Then there's something like SENS which has enumerated seven types of ageing. If those seven types of ageing are reversed, then ageing will be reversed. I believe those seven categories are yet to be disproved.
So your statement hints at the science of philosophy, and what constitutes proof. As I've said above, I say probability!
That should say 'philosophy of science'... Proofread, ftw!