RP work trial output: How to prioritize anti-aging prioritization - a light investigation

Abstract

Anti-aging research, if successful, is likely to be a big deal for a wide range of cause areas EAs are interested in. How should EAs prioritize how to think about anti-aging? I briefly consider 5 classes of ways to do cause prioritization, and tentatively arrive at Fundamental research on how to think about the effects of anti-aging As the primary way to spend the next marginal $1 million of research effort on. There has been recent interest in EA circles about the importance of anti-aging as a potential new cause area, particularly in its connection to long-termism. In this article, I will quickly discuss what are high-level considerations for cause prioritization work into anti-aging. In the article, I will be assuming an explicitly cosmopolitan, longtermist, and aggregative consequentialist framework (I am open to other value systems and may cover important considerations for other value systems when they come up, but I will not be hunting for those distinctions automatically).