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Full research, and what would actually move the needle: open.substack.com/pub/strygin/...
This is my first Substack post. Subscribe if you want more.
Full research: open.substack.com/pub/strygin/...
02.02.2026 18:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The funding gap is staggering.
246 billionaires worth $1.56T died of aging this decade.
Total ultra-wealthy investment in longevity over 25 years? $5B (according to
@wsj.com)
The average billionaire who died of aging held more wealth than the entire field's funding.
After 90, any advantage billionaires have disappears entirely.
Billionaire mortality at 90+ is statistically indistinguishable from leading life expectancy countries
The Gompertz curve doesn't care about your net worth.
So how much does being a billionaire buy men? 0-4 extra years beyond the world's healthiest population. Why such a wide range? It's complicated: selection bias, survivor effects, and pre-death wealth loss. Read the full study.
02.02.2026 18:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
It sucks to be a female billionaire.
Female billionaires die 4.5 years EARLIER than the leading benchmark. The usual 5-7 year female longevity advantage nearly vanishes. Male and female billionaires die at about the same age. No country on Earth shows a gap this small.
6 helicopter crashes in a decade, in a population of a few thousand.
Helicopters are used to compress travel time. For 6 billionaires, they compressed life instead.
90% of billionaires die of an aging-related disease, or "peacefully," "in their sleep," "surrounded by family." All euphemisms for aging doing what aging does.
Caveat: among deaths with known cause. 30% have no publicly disclosed cause (True wealth is quiet)
I tracked every billionaire who died in the last decade.
389 deaths. $2.17 trillion in wealth. 6 helicopter crashes.
Here's what I found.
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30.01.2026 14:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'm launching a Substack next week with a piece I've been working on for two months. Original research on billionaire ... (can you guess what?)
30.01.2026 14:51 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
I used to need alcohol as a social lubricant when I was younger.
Now I'm the social lubricant myself.
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Reflections on Zelar.City are out! The organizing team was
interviewed during the final days of the 5-week event and daily deep convos
We reflect on longevity industry and pop cities
A MUST SEE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5pc...
Is it just me, or am I uncovering new reasons to pursue radical life extension? π€
(Of course, we're talking about biological age in theoretical high calendar-year-old 25-year-olds!)
Paper for reference:
doi.org/10.1101/cshp...
1οΈβ£ It's way better to be a woman!
2οΈβ£ If you're a man lucky enough to live to 5,000 years, you're in a world where there are three 25-year-old Japanese women for every one of you!
3οΈβ£ If you've made it to 10,000 years, the number of women per man is ~7.5.
3οΈβ£ We also know there are big differences between male and female mortality rates. I found the mortality rates for 25-year-olds in Japan (0.02% for women, 0.04% for men) and plotted a graph. What do we observe?
04.12.2024 17:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
2οΈβ£ There's a huge variation in lifespan (see the survival curve I modeled):
Half the people will die before reaching 1,214.5 years
18% will live up to 3,000 years
5.78% will make it to 5,000 years
0.33% will reach 10,000 years
1οΈβ£ Even when we remove aging from the equation, there are still chances of dying (from infections, violence, accidents, and cancers). For 30-year-olds, the mortality rate in the paper is about ~0.057% per year, aligning with data from developed countries like Japan.
04.12.2024 17:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Reversing one year of aging per year essentially hits the Longevity Escape Velocity point. In this scenario, the expected lifespan for 30-year-olds is 1,782.6 years.
Way better than now!
But there are important nuances (I played around with the data for you): π
I've been digging into Andrew Scott's paper and found an interesting table modeling a theoretical therapy applied once a year that regenerates either 1 year, 9 months, 6 months, or 3 months of aging at different ages (see table).
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My pronouns are βfuck/deathβ
29.11.2024 19:00 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Who is here from longevity biotech?
25.11.2024 21:09 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0How do get banned here? Can I joke?
25.11.2024 20:56 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0