I agree. We definitely need more people. It would be counterproductive of me to spend all my time critiquing SENS. It would counterproductive for Harold to spend all his time doing so. But I see no harm in us spending some of our time, as long as we continue our efforts in other areas of advocacy. I don't want to take up too much of Dr. de Grey's time, which is why I hope that this debate can be settled in the next couple weeks. I definitely do NOT want it dragging out for months. Which, by the way, the debate already has in some form or another, so settling it head-on now instead of slowly in back-channels may be the best for the whole community.

Also, it would be beneficial if a protege of Dr. de Grey could fill in for him, by proxy, leaving only the more important details to Dr. de Grey. In other words, someone with a Masters or Ph.D. preferably, who is well versed in all 7 areas of SENS research. Alas, if such a person exists, he or she is probably deeply involved in important research and may have as little free time as Dr. de Grey. Until then, we have only Dr. de Grey to address these issues with.

[Posted by: Jay Fox at February 10, 2005 5:15 PM]

how incredibly true
this is why as soon as I has a 6-digit sum at my disposal I chose to use it to hire Michael Rae, who is better equipped both to respond to criticisms of SENS and to come up with cogent ones of his own than anyone on the planet except me, and is fast becoming better at the latter than me. I've been worried for years about being my own only educated critic. You'll all be hearing a lot from Michael shortly (he only started a week ago).

[Posted by: Aubrey de Grey at February 11, 2005 5:25 AM]

It's terrific to see more life science educated people entering into this debate. We need as much of this as possible to refine SENS.

[Posted by: Harold at February 20, 2005 5:14 AM]