Zoe Schiffer: I noticed you left out the effective of altruism there, but that actually got me thinking about it, because one of the questions effective altruists asked themselves when they weren’t SBF was asking, “How do I engage in widespread fraud?” Do these money that I’ll give to anything, an experiment, a start-up, whatever, would be better spent on malaria nets, which solves a very basic problem that affects a lot of people and doesn’t necessarily sexy, but the solution is right in front of us?” That’s interesting because there are health, wellness, and longevity issues that affect millions of people, like diabetes, but maybe it’s not as sexy to solve as trying to deal with longevity and live forever This one seems to be getting a lot of attention and a lot of funding these days.
Michael Calor: This is a moon shot.
Lauren Good: That’s right.
Michael Calor: The Mars Shot.
Lauren Good: yes I have to say guys, I really like this episode. It has everything. We’re talking blood injections, mosquito nets to prevent malaria, effective altruism, cryogenically freezing your body and waking up centuries later. Brian Johnson’s Weird Life Hacks, some of which, frankly, sound intriguing to me. Maybe I should get a PRP treatment on the bags under my eyes. What else? What are we missing?
Zoe Schiffer: For journalism. For journalism.
Lauren Good: The manosphere. Don’t forget about the manosphere.
Michael Calor: There is one big topic we haven’t touched on yet.
Lauren Good: Pronatalism? You’re going there, aren’t you? Please, God, no.
Michael Calor: No. I was going to say AI, artificial intelligence.
Lauren Good: true true
Michael Calor: because-
Lauren Good: Check this from the bingo card.
Michael Calor: … it’s Silicon Valley, I’m sure all these companies we’ve talked about and all these people who are chasing these big problems are using artificial intelligence in some way. right
Lauren Good: yes It also has a broad scope because it has artificial intelligence trying to identify and target diseases, which seems like an incredibly valid use case for this amazing technology. Then I think there’s also the far end of the spectrum of people who say, “I’m going to put my brain in the cloud and create an artificial intelligence version of it and extend my life that way.” I’ll live forever.” It’s a bit of protagonist syndrome to think that maybe your brain should be uploaded for people to access for all eternity. My theory on this is that we are already uploading all our brains to the internet. All of us. Every time we log in, press a key, share something on social media. We’ve been doing it for decades. There are already AI facsimiles of each of us.
