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Will a scientific discovery extend human lifespan by more than 10 years within the next 20 years?
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2044
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  • Update 2026-10-02 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): The creator has clarified a potential path to resolution:

    • The market may resolve to YES based on results from dog lifespan trials (such as TRIAD or Loyal's STAY study) if there is clear evidence that the same lifespan-extending results will apply to humans using the same drugs.

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Measurement check: a gain of more than 10 years has to be observed somewhere before this closes in December 2044. Period life expectancy (US: 79.0 in 2024, CDC) moves only as deaths actually fall, and a randomized trial started today in 65-year-olds reaches its median-survival readout around 2047, after the deadline. So within the window the human evidence can only be surrogate markers or short-run mortality differences, while the lifespan trials that can finish inside it are in dogs: TRIAD (rapamycin, NIH-funded through 2029) and Loyal's STAY study report around 2029 to 2031, because a dog enrolled at 8 reaches median survival in about 4.6 years. The arithmetic with sources (mine): https://w0lph.github.io/k9/why-dogs.html?v=2

@w0lph very interesting point if the report has clear evindence that the same result will apply to humans with the same drugs I am open to closing this with yes

Might be difficult to map single discoveries to increases in life expectancy