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Laura Deming is a partner at and founder of The Longevity Fund, a venture capital firm focused on aging and life extension. At age 8, Deming became interested in the biology of aging, and at age 12 she joined the lab of Cynthia Kenyon at the University of California, San Francisco. Deming was accepted to MIT at age 14 and later dropped out to accept the Thiel Fellowship and start a venture capital firm.

00:00:00 - Introduction
00:00:45 - Welcome Laura Deming
00:01:12 - Who is Laura
00:01:50 - Laura’s childhood, Cynthia Kenyon
03:53:00 - Working in a lab at age 11
05:30 - Childhood and early life
08:00 - Homeschooling
11:20 - Early interest in longevity
13:35 - Death vs aging
15:40 - What is aging research
23:05 - Philosophical underpinnings of working on aging
27:50 - What does it mean to live for 200 years - second order effects
31:30 - Are we ageist? Zero sum vs positive sum thinking
36:23 - Memory and Consciousness
38:10 - Contrarian thinking
43:15 - Scientific funding being a popularity contest
45:00 - How to make people take aging research seriously
45:45 - IVF
47:40 - Being an investor, finding the best entrepreneurs
52:30 - East coast vs west coast
58:50 - Does dealing with hardships make you a better founder?
1:01:45 - Turning 28, Aphantasia, Inner voice
1:05:55 - “Everything is made of atoms” - Feynman
1:12:55 - Beauty of mathematics and it’s role in biology
1:23:40 - Finding beauty in everyday things


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