Communities/forums/online communities in geroscience/aging (or upstream - aka more general biology/neurobiology)

For most biology people, the most useful communities are not in longevity/aging, but rather, in more general biology areas [eg DNA Deviants or Neurotech X]. A lot of the longevity communities seem to attract a certain kind of groupthink (and people clustered in them often “seem to be the same person”)

Other places

  • Aubrey de Grey’s old Facebook wall (still has many people. but mot really worth reading anymore()
  • Bay Area Anti-aging meeting (also the old meetups karl pfleger and foresigh tinstitue arranged)
  • Ben Goertzel’s singularitynet and the ecosystem around him
  • RAADfest
  • the community around Peter Diamandis
  • About Us | Brains@Play
  • https://forums.deathlist.net/ (celebrity health gossip, not aging, but like, they track the health of older people so it could be relevant at some point). Similar with https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/

There are lots of Russian communities too (they tend to be “more interesting” - very orthogonal but also more BS content)

Stephen Price seems to be around a lot of them

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/r/longevity

I found out there is a Longevity wiki group and their Discord.

Biology/neuroscience-related:
https://community.brain-map.org/ (for neuro)
NeurotechX slack (one of the most active)
https://forum.bigbrainproject.org/ (barely active, discourse forums cost money and may die anytime)
Bits in Bio slack (this is the highest quality and has broadest range of people)
DNA Deviants slack
homebrew.bio (self-starters)
https://www.openbioml.org/
Alzheimer’s: https://www.alzforum.org/
LessWrong is worth following if only b/c it is ultra-broad and has a few longevity longposts there (some people in the community were interested before it became AI-risk)
https://forum.biohack.me/ (this has SOME quantified-self-ish content_)

brainhack and neurofeedback communities

MILA has a slack too (scaling laws). B/c AI/neuro is “upstream of everything…” Also there’s a RL discord.