Immortality Roadmap

Approximate time line 2015 2020 2030 2040 2050 2100

Surf the wave of longevity escape velocity

Immortality
Plan А Solve
Step 1

Life extension Achieving Negligible

Step 2 Step 3

Rejuvenation A New Body

Step 4 Step 5

Cyborgization
Existing (map, link)
Senescence
Life style
• Transplanting cloned organs
of the Brain
Problems
• Enhance natural reparation • Artificial organs
Immortal body
• Proven medicines that slow down aging
• Physical fitness: running, dance processes: immune, protein-shaping, • Growing new body for transplantation
• Aging vaccines: delivery of longevity genes • Neuro-implants that serve as a
• Nutrition: vegetables, no red meat, calorie senescent cells elimination using genetic engineering
• Participation in clinical trials of new aging brain-computer interface

SURVIVE
restriction, nutrients balance • Controlled regeneration of tissues • Self-replicating nanobots for treatment
Psychology therapies

Immortality
• Reduce weight, blood pressure, sugar, and and organs using growth factors of injuries and cell cyborgization • Control of neural development and
• SENS: Regular correction of accumulated behaviour
cholesterol • Genetically modified stem cells • Head on life support for temporal
• Create healthy and robust damage • Nanobots in brain tissue
• Do not smoke or drink • Non self-replicating nanobots life extension
personality • Scientific approach to treatment • Bioengineering neurons
• Close interpersonal relationships; which delete bad proteins and • Brain in vat —­ life support of brain tissues
• Self-sufficiency • Slowing biological clock
personal physician senescent cells outside the body

with help of
• Regulation of high level control:
• Inner resources
• Socially adequacy
• A safe country with long life expectancy
• Risk aversion­­— fasten seat belts
hormones, nerves, brain, mood • Regulating gene networks
• Cryoreanimation after several hours
• Creation of a cyborg, most of which body
parts are artificial Uploading
• The ability of self- • Good sleep after death • Nanotechnological body - all cells replaced
Death prevention
Biological body +
motivating Medicine with nanobots • Backing up information from the

survive until creation • Geroprotector candidates: metformin,

• Wearable security and resuscitation systems brain

Strong AI
• Age-related diseases become curable: • Gradual transfer of personality to a
Health aspirin, antidepressants
resurrection
of Strong AI
cancer, cardiovascular diseases and digital substrate
• Medical insurance for a quality clinic
Alzheimer’s
• Full checkout once a year
• Cure chronic and neglected
diseases
• Personal medicine: 23andMe
• Permanent elimination of risk factors: high
blood pressure, obesity, plaques technology
• Technologies of resuscitation and life support

Price: Social
• Elimination of other risks of death:
infections, accidents, crime, suicide

depends of age, • Work Increasing • Unlimited lifespan using digital

• Social relation backup and AI protection
from 0 to millions USD • Build stable relationships Self-Effectiveness
• Focus on achieving immortality
Research Funding Scientific Introduction into Politics
• Upgrade: increased intelligence, adding Distributed
• Making friends with bio-scientists
• Self-education in the field of biotech, brain
science; read “Longecity”
• Forming social demand
Experiments Clinical Practice • Political power acquired by
new capabilities
biological brain
• Inclusion in government programs supporters of life extension
• Positive and rational attitude
• WHO admits that aging is a disease • Acceleration of clinical trials and • Guarantees of quick development and
• Gain resources — material, social • Biomarkers of aging: discover and
• Persuasion of billionaires accessibility of the life extension
(neuroweb)
use them to test therapies approval of new drugs by the FDA
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•
Crowdfunding of scientific projects
Money from pharmaceutical companies • Creating ageless animals • Reducing the cost of introducing drugs • Prevention of global risks
• AI that is capable of self-improvement
• Expanding the scope of possible
• Delivery of longevity genes • Lobbying and participation in elections
Promoting value of life extension •
•
New directions for technical giants (Google)
Startups and invest funds • Drug screening • Legalization of cloning and head and reaches superintelligence
• AI managing the development of
experiences, qualitative new experiences,
transplants
• Be an example
• Talk about the importance of immortality
• Rebranding “Aging” • Management of microbiota
• Data analysis using specialized AI • Creation of an infrastructure for aging civilization and hedonic enhancement
• Military funding for regeneration and treatment
and write texts veterans (DARPA) (Deep Learning)
• Groups of like-minded individuals • Control of the body on the basis of
• Street actions and art projects
Invest in FAI genomic networks • Creation of detailed, realistic simulations Emulation with
• Parties and lobbying • Creation of a computer model
• Donate to MIRI and other AI research of the human organism and artificial life within them
identity transfer and
• Demonstration of life extension
in animal models • Promote AI safety

• Detailed reconstruction of human past and strong backups

Long-term Storage people lived before
Signing of a Cryocontract Successful Revival from Cryonic Storage

Plan B • Signing and payment of the contract

• Wearing a cryotoken
• Persuading relatives that cryonics is
necessary
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Cryopreservation
Living near a cryofirm
Trustees
Cryonics crew on standby
• Financial, legal, and organizational
stability
• Storage technology without complex
maintenance
• Controlled defrosting with damage correction
• Transfer of information from the brain to the computer
• Correction of errors using lifelog data
• The colonisation of the solar system

• Heart rate monitors that automatically

phone people if heart stops
• Colonisation of the Galaxy Evolution into
Cryonics Legalization of Cryonics Scientific Studies Revival Technologies
• Exploring the Universe, solving the
Superintelligence
Starting a Cryocompany question of the end the Universe
• Law about cryonics which declares right to • Development of cryoprotectants

10k to 300K USD

• Cryonics promotion be cryopreserved • Reversible freezing of animals, • Scanning and mapping the brain
• Investment in cryo-business and • Legalization of euthanasia with subsequent human organs and tissues of the brain
cryobiology • Nano-robots for the restoration of cells
cryopreservation • Cryo-reanimation of the wounded
• Demonstrating proof of cryonics on • State support • Chemical fixation • Defrost and recovery of neural activity
animals • Guarantee of long-term storage

Integration with
Superintelligence
Plan С Gathering Information
• Continuous video recording • Cloud services
Backup Improving
• Encourage other people to invest in
Reconstruction of the Identity
of the Deceased
Digital
• Special questionnaires: diaries, • Durable optical discs (eternal M disks) digital immortality • Using AI to analyze information
memoirs, drawings, complex creative • Create digital “hoards” in internet and • Digital footprint in social networks • Construction of a accurate model of personality
objects underground hoards and servant-avatar, exo-self • Solving the problem of identical copies
• Study brain science and uploading

Immortality
• Brain data: collecting EEGs
• DNA: samples, 23andMe technologies

100-10K USD Creation of immortal

map, link soul

Plan D Quantum
immortality
Personality
reconstruction by the
future AI
Technological Singularity Simulation with
Immortality
Reading Information
from the Past
Immortality of Qualia
and other Theories
of Self
• Everett interpretation is true • Access to the past thanks to
Small Chances that • Live an interesting and • The emergence of • Perhaps we live in a computer
superintelligence in our lifetime simulation the discovery of new physical • Qualia are eternal
important life

Immortality
• Universe is actually infinite
and uncountable number of my
• The stronger the AI, the less
information it needs to
• The sharp acceleration of
progress
• Some simulations model
immortality (the after-life) or are
effects (quantum teleportation,
worm holes)
• Shift of identity on eternal
things Creation of
copies exist in it • New ideas of life extension avatar-games for simulators • Restoring the individual on

already Exists • Cryonics more likely to work

accurately resurrect
• Investing in creating • Quantum immortality rises
share of such avatar-simulations
the basis of this information
• Consciousness as a center of
actualization in the multiverse multidimensional
Friendly AI • Soul proved to exist by
if quantum immortality is true
• Future AI may find new ways scientific method and is eternal being
free to return people to life
using parallel worlds

Explanation: Each plan comes into play in the event of the failure of the previous. If pursuit of indefinite life extension fails, for instance,
then it is necessary to opt for cryonics or digital backup. Each of the three primary plans (A, B, and C) needs to be pursued simultaneously in
case one of the others fails. If they fail, all we have to fall back on is one of the wild cards in part D. This map is a simplification created for
ease of use. A more complete description can be found in the book “Immortality”, by Alexey Turchin.
Titles are marked with blue for personal efforts and green for public, which can be realized only in the group. Yellow highlights hypothetical possibilities that do not depend on our actions. This map was
created with the assistance of Michael Batin and Michael Anissimov, supported by Dmitry Kamensky in 2012-2015.
© Alexey Turchin, 2015, CC 3.0 license. Free copying and design editing, discuss major updates with Alexey Turchin, keep his name as the author.
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Proofreading and advise: Michael Anissimov