For most biology people, the most useful communities are not in longevity/aging, but rather, in more general biology areas [eg DNA Deviants, Bits in Bio, or NeurotechX]. 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”)
- The biggest is Twitter (perhaps tragically), simply because ALL the scientists use it. You just have to know who to follow (there are lists…). Some neurotech people (eg Tomas Roy) have their own mastodon.science communities, but it doesn’t have the traction
- ODLB1 slack - https://www.beondeck.com/longevity-biotech and its followup longbiofellowship.slack.com. Has the highest concentration of scientists people in the area. If you’re into science/research or general biology (rather than slowing your aging rate [tragically, the overlap of both of these communities is often just me]), the best groups (with the smartest/most resourceful people) are the more general biology/chemistry groups - Bits in Bio Slack, DNA Deviants, NeurotechX, Nucleate, SynBioBeta [not so much longevity], and Foresight [and perhaps the AI groups like MILA-Quebec or M2D2]) AND Programs | Speculative Technologies
- https://community.benchling.com/
- https://progressforum.org/ (progress studies is very aligned with longevity [upstream of it], and some, like Adam Marblestone, are in both). A good place to just dump everything on even if there is little activity on it now
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More directly focused longevity communities (there’s groupthink, people are not as resourceful as, say, Sam Rodriques)
For Neurotech communities, https://www.reddit.com/r/neurallace/, NeurotechX slack, discords for myelin/human augmentation/etc… [neither are well-populated]
- VitaDAO (and its discord). https://gov.vitadao.com/ . It has a Telegram channel that has become super-noisy
- https://www.rapamycin.news (a lot of activity, but S/N ratio is declining with increased popularity, making me shift my posting to crsociety again…)
- reddit.com/r/longevity
- grg@lists.ucla.edu (ask Johnny Adams for invite)
- https://forum.age-reversal.net/ (Brian Delaney…)
- crsociety.org (and the old mailing list which is no longer there). They used to hold conferences. Michael Rae is historically impt. Very high S/N ratio for its level of activity (but people there are not the youngest or most open). Invision Power Board is an intrinsically more expressive platform than discourse forums
- Empathy List Archives
- livingthecrway.com
- https://groups.google.com/g/diybio
- longecity.org [the old imminst.org] (noisy now)
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- https://forum.quantifiedself.com/
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- longevity.technology
- Foresight Institute has an longevity working group (and mailing list and discord and slack)
- american aging association (A LOT happens in its IRL meetings). Same with Undoing Aging at Berlin and https://www.lifespan.io/news/sven-butlerijs/ . In Berlin, SOME things seem to happen around Michael Greve
- 2022 Systems Aging Conference GRC
- Research Collective telegram (there are also regional Telegrams for Zuzalu, Singapore longevity meetup, Berlin biohackers). Apart from Zuzalu, the larger ones tend to lose quality with scale.
- https://twitter.com/longevitywiki
- About - Longevity Wiki
- Youth Longevity Association (new as of 2023) and discord
- Kiwi IRC (and the hplusroadmap community) [this has Bryan Bishop, and he’s way more interesting/imaginative than most transhumanists or biology ppl]
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