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I am pretty sure the way it works is that everyone will get the immortality when it is available, but the poor folks get 1,000 years of debt.
Only if people respect IP law. Normal small-molecule drugs are trivial to reverse-engineer, biologics are trickier but the means of manufacturing them is self-replicating, and Shenzhen is good at reverse-engineering other technologies if we're to believe what we read in the media
I'm genuinely curious why the old men running the world haven't got this off the ground yet.
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Billionaires are not immune to the terrifying realities of life and death, they're just more likely to delude themselves into thinking that like so many rules, they can beat that too. The result is, on the bright side, that sometimes they do some real good by funding research. The downside is that often they blow that money on extremely expensive snake oil.
And that when you're a billionaire you have much more to lose when you die.
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Billionaires are not immune to the terrifying realities of life and death, they're just more likely to delude themselves into thinking that like so many rules, they can beat that too. The result is, on the bright side, that sometimes they do some real good by funding research. The downside is that often they blow that money on extremely expensive snake oil.
> real good by funding research Like the planet need humans to live longer???
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But Kurzweil has been banging this drum for a long time. He has means but still isn't near being a billionaire. He just believes.
Kurzweil actually not just believes but sells his own snake oil. http://www.rayandterry.com/ Despite there being no evidence of any effect.
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I know you're making a joke, but a lot of people say this and it always irks me slightly. This narrative that if rich people fund X universally desirable thing, then only rich people will have X. This is literally never the case in the history of technology. Yes, the rich get it first, but it filters down to poor people really really quickly, especially in the modern age where costs fall at an insane pace. Sorry, did…
In technology, sure. In somewhat less easy to define things, not so much. Rich people tend to have better education, better health care, less worries and stress (or at least less existential worries and better coping mechanisms), and better "life opportunities" as far as anything that requires money is concerned. Poor people can't work in industries where unpaid internships are commonplace for example, because they n…
I'm genuinely curious why the old men running the world haven't got this off the ground yet.
In his AMA Bill Gates said if he could buy anything he would buy immortality.
Q: What do you think about life-extending and immortality research?
A: It seems pretty egocentric while we still have malaria and TB for rich people to fund things so they can live longer. It would be nice to live longer though I admit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2tzjp7/hi_reddit_im_b...
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Billionaires are not immune to the terrifying realities of life and death, they're just more likely to delude themselves into thinking that like so many rules, they can beat that too. The result is, on the bright side, that sometimes they do some real good by funding research. The downside is that often they blow that money on extremely expensive snake oil.
And that when you're a billionaire you have much more to lose when you die.
I would say that death is the great equaliser.