{"id":78076,"date":"2018-04-27T13:22:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T20:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/cgp-grey-the-fable-of-the-dragon-tyrant"},"modified":"2018-04-27T13:22:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T20:22:24","slug":"cgp-grey-the-fable-of-the-dragon-tyrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/cgp-grey-the-fable-of-the-dragon-tyrant","title":{"rendered":"CGP Grey: The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cZYNADOHhVY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>CGP Grey has produced a new video, this time an animated version of Prof. Nick Bostrom\u2019s \u201cThe Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant\u201d. The fable is a powerful metaphor for aging and the acceptance mechanisms that have led humans to schedule their entire lives around its diktat.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>There\u2019s a good chance that ten or fifteen years from now, we\u2019ll look back at this moment in history and realize that we were living through the beginning of a revolution, the first baby steps of what would eventually become a global movement. Maybe it\u2019ll take longer, but just like it was for human flight, the unmistakable signs of the upcoming paradigm shift are all around us.<\/p>\n<p>If you are paying attention to the field of rejuvenation biotechnology, you\u2019re noticing how more and more experts have dared to \u201ccome out\u201d and speak of aging not only as a medical problem to be solved but also one that we might just be able to relegate to medical history books in the relatively near term; you\u2019re noticing the technical progress, big and small; how the topic is moving from fringe to mainstream; how more people join the cause; and how previously dismissive and uninterested people now react to this change, either by disputing the feasibility or desirability of defeating aging.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/cgp-grey-the-fable-of-the-dragon-tyrant\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/cgp-grey-the-fable-of-the-dragon-tyrant\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CGP Grey has produced a new video, this time an animated version of Prof. Nick Bostrom\u2019s \u201cThe Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant\u201d. The fable is a powerful metaphor for aging and the acceptance mechanisms that have led humans to schedule their entire lives around its diktat. There\u2019s a good chance that ten or fifteen years from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}