# live long and prosper (if you have a billion dollars)

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- **Канал:** Angela Collier 
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C179X1MkgTs
- **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/40050

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### Segment 1 (00:00 - 05:00) []

This is just one of those videos where I read an article out loud to you because I liked it and thought it was funny. This is How to Live Forever and Get Rich While Doing It, published in The New Yorker in August by Tad Friend. Although when I read it, it was called Live Long and Prosper. That's right. I have a subscription to The New Yorker and I read it. You can make fun of me. It's fine. This is an article about a man named Peter Diamandis who Tad describes as 5'4 and has pipe stem legs, but his torso widens into broad shoulders, powerful biceps, and a craggy homeriic head. The composite effect is of a genie emerging from a lamp. Sure. You may have heard of this guy because he was in the news in 2021 because he held a COVID super spreader event where 86 people who paid $30,000 each to attend this like lecture series all got co and then after Peter Diamandis posted a private video to his YouTube channel, you know, a thing he is responsible for that was a webinar by an anesthesiologist named Matt Cook. And in that webinar, Matt Cook just spouted a bunch of pseudocience like fake cures for COVID and recommended that all those people do that. Things like drinking amniotic fluid and like shotgunning a bunch of amino acids that what you say that Ivormectin that one like a bunch of trash nonsense [ __ ] and someone leaked the video and it spread all over the news. I'll link one of the articles by Eileen Gal. She reached out to Peter Diamandez and was like, "Hey, why did you post this video and uh he suddenly changed his tune? " Well, let me read you his quote. As an MD and a scientist, I have a special responsibility to learn from my mistakes, lead by example, and use the resources at my disposal to make a positive difference and improve the health and safety of everyone on this planet. And I just want to say like, okay, that's not an apology. It's not an admittance of wrongdoing. like do you think hosting a super spreader event was bad or do you think posting the video was bad or are you comfortable with both those things? It's not clear from this quote. I also find it very interesting that he calls himself an MD and a scientist. That's interesting. Anyway, Peter Diamandis, he's just one of those guys, you know, a billionaire. Funds a bunch of companies and some of them become worth something and he sells them and loses interest and does a bunch of other stuff. So convinced that he has valuable things to say that he is willing to do an interview with the New Yorker where they describe him as like giant head guy who skips leg day. Also, he's willing to tell the New Yorker that he has developed a series of laws that he lives by that he calls Peter's laws. And I would love to give you some examples. I want you to picture that poster of like the cat that's like hanging from a tree branch. Peter's laws. When forced to compromise, [snorts] ask for more. Peter's laws. If you can't win, change the rules. Presumably, he brings these up in his daily like conversations because he brought it up to the guy who wrote the New Yorker article, Tad Friend, and Tad Friend was able to catalog like four of these in the article. But just imagine, you have to talk to this guy for work and the guy just like refers to himself in third person while you're drinking coffee and just says, you know, Peter's law number 22, the day before something is a breakthrough. it's a crazy idea. And then he just pauses like that was a normal thing to do. And you have to somehow respond to that without laughing in this guy's face like yep. Okay. He calls his network of people and like his various business ventures of podcasts and health clinics and seminars about medicine that's fake. The Peter verse. He says that about himself. And I'm going to read this one to you because I want to get it correct. I don't want to misquote him. He calls the news the amygdala stimulating dystopian from the clickbait media. He always wears the same outfit, you know, black shirt and jeans because like he's a billionaire. He's busy. He's important. He doesn't have time to decide what to wear. The fact that he wears the same outfit every day is interesting. And he wants you to know that he does it because he's smart. That's why he mentioned it. Duh. These guys, they always have a bit. And Peter's bit is that he he's interested in reversing

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aging or longevity. Sure, why not? From the article in December, Diamandis stood before 200 doctors and scientists and vowed that in the coming decade, our wish would begin to come true. It's either a hardware problem or a software problem, and we're going to be able to fix that. So according to Peter for last December, so he's got about nine years left. Dying from aging is either a software problem or a hardware problem. And we're going to be able to fix that with his help. And I guess he's likening humans to robots because it makes it easier to exploit their labor and ignore their suffering while you sit on your billion dollars like an evil dragon. And presumably the hardware is like our bodies and our organs and brains and things. And the software is how like new cells form like how chemical reactions happen in the body. Like how DNA instructs those processes to happen. Sure, that's just two things. That's doable in a decade, right? You just have to check two things. It's either hardware or software. That should be easy. This guy has a lot of quotes like that. Like you read this article and he says things like it's either hardware or software and then you read any other article or interview or watch any of his many YouTube videos and he says the same sentence over and over. I guess it's kind of like how they wear the same outfit every day. Like it solves decision fatigue to have to think of something to say. So like a robot they have also just they have a script of like 15 things they're just going to repeat over and over. his money-making venture. One of the many is that he has a clinic that he has started with two actual medical doctors and Tony Robbins, motivational speaker, kind of cancelled. I guess I hate how much I read about Tony Robbins to talk about this article when none of it matters. [gasps] Anyway, the clinic has newsletters and podcasts and books and it's a really interesting grift because it's targeted towards rich people. That's not often how you do it. The client is rich businessmen who are willing to spend like $20,000 a year to be a part of these like doctor groups. They also make money from their conference called Abundance 360, which you know was a super spreader event in 2021 where people pay thousands upon thousands of dollars to fly to a location and sit in an auditorium and watch people like Peter and Tony Robbins give talks and the the content of the talks are all like, you know, in a few short years AI doctors brain implants and the people pay like nearly six figures for the privilege of sitting in an audience where someone's like, I don't know, maybe nanobots could sort the cancer out of your blood, right? Just a few short years. Is this a hardware or software problem? And like sometimes they pay these six figures to attend these events and they all get COVID and then the guy who held the event is like, I don't know, find someone that can get you some amniotic fluid to cure your COVID. Sure. In like my circles, people might know Diamandis from the '9s when he was doing the X prizes. He still does those for like mining asteroids and stuff. A lot of these guys were like to save humanity space and now they're AI. Um it's just the same grift with different words, but he offers money and then people do research and if they solve the problem of whatever, he tries to give them money. And I think this specific article is about a newish prize about longevity. So, the prize is for someone to develop a treatment that makes muscles, brains, and immune systems 20 years younger, and you win $80 million. Okay. I guess the idea is that by offering a prize, he's encouraging research groups to work better, faster, stronger. But like, how do you win that prize? Like, what does it mean? How do you define an immune system that has de-agged 20 years? Like, is there even a test for that? Like, what does this mean? It's a little bit vague. clickbaity. It's a little bit like almost designed to be unwininnable, but also in the news to make it seem like you're doing a thing to help people. Do you know what I mean? There's a quote from a professional researcher in this article called David Sinclair, and he says, "The prize is a Wright brothers moment. It helped change the focus from mouse studies to let's do something in humans, which is like a throwaway line in the article, right? It's just like, oh, let's go ask an expert in the field what they think about this prize. And this is like a huge red flag, though. This guy, he

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calls it a Wright brothers moment. The Wright brothers had a Wright brothers moment, which was they flew a plane with an engine, right? The Wright brothers moment was not someone announced a prize for the possibility of flying a plane with an engine and everyone got excited about doing it. Do you know what I mean? Like what a weird thing for a professional researcher or a doctor to say in this article. But also he's saying like yeah it's crazy that we're doing research on mice. What if we just did research on humans? That would be cool. Why hasn't anybody thought of that? And it's just like, bro, that's very suspicious. What a suspicious thing to say. If you're a researcher, you certainly know why people do studies on mice and why human trials are so specific and strict. What an odd thing to say. Interesting. And then you Google this guy and he's just like totally one of those guys, this David Sinclair guy. He's like, "The scientific establishment won't listen to me about how I have reversed aging. " And you look at his Wikipedia page and he's just like consistently forming a company, promising to do an amazing thing, failing to do that, and then forming another company. And also, what's with all the anti-aging people like photoshopping their faces like this? Like, he's even doing like the old woman thing. You know how like some women like cuz our necks age, right? like your neck starts to look saggy as you age because of gravity and that's fine. That's totally fine. But some people are embarrassed of that and so they take pictures like this and it's really obvious and it draws more attention to it. But like people are allowed to do whatever they want. I just like aging is good. Like you're not convincing anyone that you've reversed aging because you photoshop your face and also get plastic surgery. Like bro, but of course Tad friend is a journalist and he talked to a second professional doctor called Dr. Eric Verdin who says I do worry for the credibility of our field and like yes sir that that's correct. Another doctor, Dr. Jordan Schlane who runs these type of like longevity clinics says this. Everything you do to improve your health span can improve your lifespan. Everything you do to improve your lifespan is [ __ ] which 10 out of 10. What you can do to improve your lifespan is to improve your health like get sleep, eat a healthy diet, exercise, those things improve your health, which improves your lifespan. Everything else you're this Peter Diamandis guy is like just such a mark. Diamandis rises each morning at 5:30 and assesses his overnight biometrics gathered by an aura ring and an Apple Watch and a continuous glucose monitor. Then as he meditates, he employs three red light therapy devices. One for healthy skin, one for lustrous hair, and one to kill oral bacteria. Along with a kachava shake, he consumes the first of five daily pill packs. This includes a GLP-1 agonist, a mitochondrial stimulant, a stress dampener, and a noatropic for cognitive enhancement. After using a toothpaste tailored to his oral microbiome, he begins his morning zooms while pedaling a stationary bike. He also pumps iron and pins his daily protein intake at 150 grams, one gram for each pound he weighs. I love the quotes from these doctors in this article because Tad Friend, the author, is getting the opinion of real doctors and then just listing all the stupid [ __ ] that these people do. just like their ice baths and their weird calorie restrictions that change based on what hour it is and how they wake up and meditate for 4 hours and shine the red lights on their faces and then Tad friend gets another doctor to just be like, "Yeah, that's [ __ ] There's no evidence that works. " I love it. I don't know if you can tell, but like this video right here, this account right here is a Tad Friend Stan account. I think the way this article communicates the science of longevity while calling these people dumb asses is brilliant. This article is just tad friend non-escriptly completely like zero condemnation describing factually what these people do to improve their longevity and then just asking a doctor directly quoting the doctor who calls it [ __ ] It's so good. I love it. I also I don't know where else to say this, but I picked up this article to read it and it says live long and prosper by Tad Friend. And I said out loud, Tad Friend is the name of a man who 100% if you looked at his Wikipedia page, his parents would have like blue hyperlinks and um it's not related to this video. I just like being right about things. It's very funny to me. Let me read another quote. Eric Ferdin told me Peter Diamandis says we're thinking

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linearly in an exponential world and we'll be able to solve all these problems but the biological problems to solve also get exponentially harder as you go deeper. Even the indicators are baffling. Hearing loss has been linked to dementia as has failing to floss. An impaired sense of smell is more strongly predictive of all cause mortality than heart disease. And the mysteries do multiply the deeper you go. People who have four organs that are youthful for their age are much less likely to experience kidney disease or arthritis. Yet those with seven youthful organs, which must be even better, right, have a greatly heightened risk of diabetes and Parkinson's. So this article is a billionaire being like, "I'm going to solve longevity. I'm going to solve this. Here are my 10 Peter's laws for solving this. " And then professionals being like, "Yeah, that guy doesn't know what he's talking about. " It's really fun. I really recommend this article. So let me share another example with you. Tad friend is going through this list of what these biohackers do, you know, the cold baths, the exercise, taking hundreds of supplements. And then he brings up this pharmmological principle about combining drugs, which is that when you combine two drugs, you can kind of know how they interact with each other and what they will do. But when you combine three, you don't really know what's going to happen. like taking vitamin D and vitamin C and Viagra and then 30 other supplements will have unpredictable effects because we do not understand how human bodies work. I am not a medical doctor and I would never ever give you medical advice. But I will give you advice for when you go to the doctor, which is that when you fill out that little form, the intake form, and it says, "What medications are you taking? " You are also supposed to list the supplements you are taking. those weird ass mushroom powders or teas or things you bought from a witch on Etsy, you need to list that in the things you're taking because the doctor will need to know that if you accidentally take a real drug and he might request that you stop taking those things because it's unclear how they would interact. This is a well-known thing in the field of medicine, but also remember I am not a medical doctor, okay? But also like in addition to not knowing how drugs interact with each other, the more stuff you put in your body, the harder your liver has to work to sort all that [ __ ] out. And a lot of those supplements are not regulated in any way. And also, by the way, we don't have a functioning FDA right now. And your liver cannot detoxify the lead out of your protein powder. I'm not a medical doctor. I just think you should be very careful when you take supplements. And perhaps you should ask a professional medical doctor what they think. Okay. Anyway, the author of this article, Tad Friend, brings us up to Peter Diamandis. He says, "You're taking like 50 supplements a day. There's no way you know what those are individually doing or how those interact with each other. And also, aren't you putting a lot of stress on your liver by doing that? " And Peter says this, "It's a very valid critique that I've also heard from my mom. " And that's hilarious. That's like really [ __ ] funny. I don't know if you've ever experienced this, but you ever like be drinking a Diet Coke and someone is just like, "Diet Coke is worse. Don't you know what they? " And it's like, "No. " When you say you like MSG in food because it's delicious. And someone's like, "That causes cancer. " And you have to be like, "What? No, that's just like '9s racism. What? " Like, it's a very valid critique that I've also heard from my mom. Like, I don't want to shame moms. is a very funny thing to say when someone starts quoting like oldtimey knowledge. That's very funny. However, Tad Friend, the author of this article, is not saying something silly. He has a very actually valid critique for Peter. He is saying, "Hey, you don't know what these pills are doing and yet you're taking them. What do you mean? " So saying, "Oh, my mom says stuff like that, too. " isn't like the sick burn he thinks it is. and his actual response makes it even worse. Peter says this, "I'd love to start an AI company where you tell it what you want from your stack, more energy or no tropics or whatever, and then give it your genetic data and your medical baseline and the number of pills you're willing to swallow, and it tells you exactly what to take. " In the interim, he says, opening a pouch containing his midday pills. I'm manually doing this, and it's just so stupid. Like what do you mean you would love to start an AI company? Like company that does magic. We don't know how the pills interact with each other. We don't know that. If we don't know that, how would an AI know that? AI doesn't exist. Like AI does not learn new knowledge. AI does not do experiments. What do you think AI is? This man literally thinks he could like put a drop of blood, a single drop of

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blood in a machine and then the LLM would be like take this vitamin C pill and this Viagra pill and this blood pressure thing. Like he thinks that that's a thing like AI doesn't exist. What do you mean? But also, he takes the pills and says, "I'm manually doing this. " As if he thinks he knows what the pills do. He thinks he looks at his biometric data from his aura ring and he's like, "I guess I'll take this 52 pill stack today. " Like, he's not manually doing anything. He's just shoving a bunch of useless pills in his mouth and making some very expensive pee. The journalist is like, "Listen, there's a very real problem here. you're taking multiple pills. You have no idea how they interact with each other or what they will do when they're interacting with each other. And the guy's like, "You sound like my mom. I'm obviously just going to invent a magic AI company that solves this problem. Duh. " In response to Eileen Gal being like, "Hey, why did you tell all these people who came to your event that they should drink placenta or whatever? " He was like, "I'm an MD and a scientist. " And I just, how can you pretend to be a scientist while also taking 52 pills a day and pretending that that's like an experiment? Like, he thinks he's doing science. This article spends a whole lot of time talking about Peter Diamandis' background. You know, Peter Diamandis of Peter's Laws, they're famous. So, he went to medical school and then he decided he wanted to be an astronaut. and he graduated from medical school and they were like, "You can finish this degree, but you can never practice medicine. Promise us you will never practice medicine. " Which means he probably shouldn't be calling himself a doctor. Um, but I guess technically he said he has an MD or as an MD. Is that calling yourself a doctor? But anyway, I think it's very funny that he admits this because if you're not in academia, this is a thing that happens where you get a degree, but they're kind of like, listen, no, don't do anything with this. And um what you're really admitting is that like you just you had enough money to pay them to get the degree, but like you did not do well in the coursework, so you were not like really awarded the degree. It's just it's very funny to me that he admits this, I guess. Also, he says the reason he's so interested in longevity is a fact that he learned in medical school. And he says that in medical school, he learned that some sharks can live like five centuries. This man left medical school with a single animal fact. Like picking up your toddler from preschool, they have one thing to say. Did you know some sharks can live centuries? He realizes he'll never be an astronaut because like of course people want actual doctors to be astronauts. And so he just starts funding a bunch of companies that do like space [ __ ] We're gonna mine asteroids and that's going to cure all the world's ills. And then when you ask them why, they don't have an answer. Just we got to mine asteroids. Doesn't that make sense? Isn't that a thing that just makes sense? We have to mine asteroids. Like why? Why do people say that? What? What's go why? Tell me why. Anyway, he makes billions of dollars, you know, by exploiting the workforce and hoarding wealth like a little dragon. And one day, one magical day, he reads a book. That book is by Raymond Curtzwhile, Curtzwheel, and it's called the singularity is near. and singularity like the word futurist or Dyson sphere or cartesev type civilization are just words I hear that trigger like a fightor-flight response in me as a science communicator that I can't even describe like if someone says the word singularity there's a 99% chance they are about to with their whole heart and chest say something they fully believe but is also like the dumbest thing you've ever heard in your entire life. Curtzwheel, Raymond Curtzwheel has a book called The Singularity is Near that Peter Diamandis read. And in that book, Curt says by 2029, no one's going to be aging anymore. Like, we will drastically reduce the rate at which people age. He predicts, you know, nanobots will flow through your bloodstream and cure your cancer and stuff. Computers in 2029, according to Raymond Curtsville, will achieve consciousness. So like even if you are aging and dying, you can just upload your brain to the cloud. Okay, that's that the future is here in 2029. people can just upload their AI brains to the cloud for the nanobots to find their cancer in their blood. And the future is near and the singularity is also near. According to Raymond Curtzwell in 2045, um you know, everyone's going to be the maximum intelligent version of themsel living in the cloud singularity, the AI

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the nanobots. Duh. I can't believe people talk like this. I can't believe Raymond Curtzwell is a human man who published a book called The Singularity is Near. And in it, he's just like, "My my super cool science prediction is that AI, cloud, nanobots, robots, brains, super mega intelligence, the cloud, and people give that guy hundreds of thousands of dollars to be flown across the world to go to events and give speeches where people in the audience have paid like $30,000 to attend. " And then that's the stuff he says and somehow he doesn't get laughed out of the room. Like this man walks into a room full of billionaires and he's like actually we're drastically going to reduce aging with AI. And no one laughs at him. All the billionaires in the audience are like holy [ __ ] Wow. We sure are. And I know someone in the comments is going to be like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Raymond Curtzswhile, he's a genius. He's a futurist. He works for Google. He's an inventor. Inc magazine called Raymond Curtzwell Edison's rightful heir. And like I hear you. I hear that that's what people say about him. I have read his Wikipedia page. I'm just saying instead maybe we should listen to the words coming out of his mouth. Someone saying the singularity is going to be here by 2045 and everyone's going to live on the core in the cloud. And like maybe not. Maybe he's not a genius, guys. Anyway, so Diamandis is one of these billionaires not laughing this guy out of the room and reading his book and being like, "Holy [ __ ] this is they're going to dramatically reduce aging with AI nanobots. " And Diamandis describes his reaction to this experience learning about this by saying,"I have to stop focusing on this linear [ __ ] and I need to be exponential. " And why are all the billionaires saying exponential so often? Like did they like they learned one math word and they're like, "Yeah, I'm just going to toggle this into the list of phrases I repeat. I have to be exponential. " But these two guys, Curts While and Peter Diamandis, you know him from Peter's Laws, they formed a company called Singularity University in 2008. And the name might confuse you because it's not a university in the sense that it's accredited and in any way allowed to give out degrees, but you can give them six figures to attend like a weekend and receive an executive MBA or some [ __ ] that you can put on your resume. So, the funders and supporters of Singularity University include people like Larry Page, Peter Theel, and Elon Musk. Uh, no surprises there. But the company, of course, like it's just it doesn't do anything. Singularity University doesn't do anything except have scandals of sexual harassment, embezzlement, and discrimination. And um, now it's of course a for-profit company, but don't worry, they're under new management. It's fine. You can totally give them six figures to get an executive MBA from them. It's fine. Okay, so we're just moving through this article. We're having a great time. It's really fun. I'm really enjoying this article. I think it's really good science communication where it's just like listen to the words coming out of these people's mouth. And I would love to read you another quote from Peter Diamandis, you know, of Peter's laws, about a discussion he had with Raymond Curtzwell that gave him like a aha moment. The article says he was rocked by this holy [ __ ] moment. So let me read it out loud. This is Peter Diamandis talking. I realize that there is a tremendous amount of energy that hits the earth from the sun. But that energy is not in usable form. Technology can make it usable, make it abundant. When I started thinking about it, technology can take anything from scarcity to abundance, including time. I feel like we should take this quote and put it on shirts so like everyone can know that the meritocracy doesn't exist. It's not a real thing. Anyone of any intelligence level can be a billionaire. This guy described realizing the sun puts out more energy than we use as a holy [ __ ] moment. and he felt that it was such a holy [ __ ] moment that he told this story to a reporter on record knowing that the reporter would publish that story. I just that's the genius of this article. Tad friend is just letting this guy speak for himself. Listen to how intelligent this person sounds. Are you willing to give him $100,000 to fly to his

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abundance conference and listen to him speak? Are you gonna pay $20,000 a year so that he can give you a pill stack of 50 pills you're going to take a day? Are you going to let them measure what's going on with your blood and your pee? No. This guy just learned that the sun produces energy. This guy calls himself an MD and a scientist. So Peter, his job, his image, his laws, his whole thing that he's presenting here is a grift to make money from longevity, right? He makes these clinics. The annual membership is $22,000 plus $5,000 for all the supplements and the tests. He's got 2600 patients. There's also an option that it doesn't say how many people have taken to pay $85,000 a year to have an exercise coach and a nutrition coach and a stem cell education plan, a plasma exchange plan that costs $10,000 per treatment. And he makes money from this, right, from these people. but also in the event that maybe one of these treatments turns out to actually do something and be a longevity cure enhancement escape velocity whatever the [ __ ] he's calling it he would make money from that as well in the meantime you know he makes money by hosting these events which people pay to go to where speakers show up and they're like AI nanobots holy [ __ ] nanobots yeah dude nanobots thoughts that I imagine that's what those conferences are like. But you can pay him six figures to attend one of those, but also he'll talk about this in his books, which you got to stop bragging about having New York Times bestselling books when you have a billion dollars. You could just buy all those books. Like, it's meaningless. Um, he he's got his newsletter, he's got his podcast, he's got his YouTube channel, which to be fair has a very respectable number of subscribers to view counts. So, like he didn't buy subscribers on YouTube. He could have afforded to obviously, but also it makes me really sad that there are that many people watching this garbage. Whatever. So, Tad Friend again doing a great job with this article. Implicit in this narrative is the belief that technocrats aren't hogging resources for vanity projects, they're fixing the world. One X-P prize healthspan donor, Daniel Krisek, a biotech fund manager who plans to invest a billion dollars in longevity, espouses the values of effective altruism. That principle popular in Silicon Valley, holds that philanthropist should save the most lives they can, including the billions of future lives that might be enabled by a particular action. You could put a trillion dollars into Africa and feed the continent forever. That's what he sounds like to me. Krisk told me, "But I believe it's better to spend the trillion dollars on going to space because all the scientific advances that come from that will save many more lives in the future. " And this is just like a shocking thing to admit out loud on the record to a reporter who's going to print that next to your full name. Like, yeah, I'm sitting on the resources to feed the entire continent of Africa, but I simply don't want to cuz like future people in I'm benefiting them instead. I'm a philanthropist. Look at this guy. God damn it. [ __ ] bros. [sighs and gasps] I just How would help helping future people somehow be better than helping the people that actually exist right now? The people that literally actually do exist right now. Like to say this out loud and have it be in print. I bet this guy goes to sleep thinking he's a good person. He's a philanthropist. He donates money to the future people that don't exist. Billionaires are anyway. Peter Diamandis, you know, of Peter's laws. He's not like that as much, at least not vocally. I don't know about his actions. Uh, but he says this. I think there's a single tide that floats all boats. AI will feed the hungry, solve the climate crisis, and get us into space. But like I did this other video about Eric Hun, the CEO of Zoom, a company that looks like this, and I talked about malicious optimism. And that's just what this feels like, right? Like I'm Peter Diamandis. Yeah, I'm hoarding billions of dollars and like stealing researchers away from researching actual diseases so they can lengthen my life. a man who already has all his need needs met and will definitely outlive the most people because of access to medical care. He's like, "But AI will fix it. Somehow AI will fix the fact that

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people go hungry. Somehow AI will fix the fact that climate change is a thing. " And it's just like, "Well, AI doesn't exist. " But also, what the [ __ ] do you mean? How exactly do you think that's going to happen? Are these people this [ __ ] stupid? Like genuinely, does this guy think he had a revelation about how the sun puts out more power than we use and therefore he is uniquely capable of ushering us into the singularity? Or is it malicious optimism? Does this man use being a dummy as a shield so when like you know the hammer or the guillotine or whatever comes down, he can be like, "Well, I didn't know I'm just a little guy. " It gives Sam Alman the like tell you what the problem the thing stopping us from making more GPUs is electrons. — The stupidest question possible. Why don't we just make more GPUs? Because we need to make more electrons. — More of one thing to have more compute. What would the one thing be? — Electrons. — The problem, the thing stopping us from making more GPUs is electrons. I am smart. I'm Sam Alman. My company is worth a trillion dollars. And it's like he's stupid on purpose, right? He's being stupid on purpose. So in the court cases that will happen, he can be like, "Well, why would you believe anything I say? I'm obviously the world's dumbest man. Just listen to the words that I'm saying. " Do you know — the stupidest question possible? — More of one thing to have more compute. What would the one thing be? — Electrons. — Do you know what I mean? the malicious optimism. It's a bit It's part of the grift. scam. But also, maybe Peter Diamandis does believe this. I would love to read from an AMA he did on Reddit 12 full years ago. So, user Januars, who made this account to ask this question, these are his only two comments, says, "Hi, Peter. A year ago, someone brought up the question of abundance and its implication on labor. As technology takes over more complex tasks via automation, less labor is needed. However, if we reach a critical point where labor needs to decrease dramatically, there is no economic population to purchase the output as they would have no jobs. While total abundance is perhaps unreachable, there has to be a tipping point where labor markets and automation balance each other out. Would you mind commenting on this concept, its implications, and perhaps limitations? Thank you. What a well-ritten question. We love to see it. 12 years ago, people could write sentences. It was crazy. Peter Diamandis responds and I want you to know he has more points than the previous question has. He got more internet points for this response. Great question. There is a race to the bottom. What you say above is true. It is also true that we spend our money. Health, education, energy, etc. is demonetizing, i. e. tech is making it effectively free all caps. So we will need less money also all caps and ultimately we will partner with technology. I'm an engineer and I look at boundary conditions. The final result is nanotech and if I have a nanobot I don't need any money. I just how can you type that out knowing that this is attached to your name? This isn't anonymous. this thing you just said that [snorts] you thought was like a good answer to that very well-written question is nonsense but also it's attached to your name like you hit send it it's it doesn't answer the question it doesn't make any sense so Jenny responds and he says thanks Peter your point is quite valid in numerous commodity markets food energy or other services health education however I don't see your suggestion of nanotech as the influential variable that determines the balance between automation and the labor market contraction. Would you mind elaborating a little more on this? Thanks. What a kind way to respond to this dumbass response. He's like, "Listen, you don't have to tax billionaires cuz we spend money on education and energy and stuff and like maybe we'll invent nanobots and if you have a nanobot, you don't need money. " The [ __ ] does that mean, bro? If you have a nanobot, you don't need money. How exactly do you procure this nanobot if you don't have money? How does this nanobot feed you? Do you eat it? Does it clothe you? Do you wear it? Does it house you? I mean, nano would imply that it doesn't do that. So, like, how can you type the sentence, if I have a nanobot, I don't need money? Is he dumb and he believes this? Or is this malicious optimism? Like, guys, guys, just let me steal all the money and hoard all the wealth and I promise you in a hundred years altruism. I'm a philanthropist. Like, in what world do billionaires create a company? purchase an already functioning company that was started by

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scientists and engineers who made a product? Do the billionaires who then steal that credit and then sue the previous company to make sure their name is on the company as if they founded it and that was their idea? Does that company create a nanobot and then what? Give it away for free. If people don't have jobs, how do they buy the nanobots? If no one's buying the nanobots, you see how there's this issue Peter Diamandis doesn't see because if you have a nanobot, why would you need money? Duh. So January's response again, he's like, I'm not really sure. That was nonsense. The [ __ ] And no response. He just said billionaires make health, energy, and education free. And if you have a nanobot, you don't need money. And then of course, here he is 12 years later saying the exact same stuff to Tad Friend. Some people tell me, well, you've created a religion around abundance, he said. And there are elements of faith in that mindset. During A360, Diamandis interviewed his own avatar, which had supposedly timeraveled back from 2082. The Avatar, which resembled a young Raphael Nadal, reported that the singularity took place on schedule and that artificial intelligence essentially solved all material scarcity problems. And so the jobless became free, living better than 2025 billionaires. Let him steal all your money. the resources away from actual health research. Because guys, the singularity is coming. And once the singularity happens, all scarcity is solved. Somehow AI solved it. Did you know AI solved scarcity? This is what I'm trying to ask. Are these people stupid? I ask that because they're saying stupid [ __ ] publicly in print for everyone to read or do they purposefully appear stupid to wear that as a shield to create this narrative for dum dums that's like actually billionaires help the people. This whole charade of billionaires being like I'm just a little guy. I'm helping the people because, you know, AI is gonna take over and nanobots will filter cancer out of our bloodstream. It's just so dumb. We don't have to do this. We could do anything else. I have another evidence that this is happening, but it's Grock. And I'm so sorry to bring this up. Okay, so here's the article. It's called Grock says it would kill every Jewish person on the planet to save Elon Musk, which is funny because it's on the Futurism website, which is purchased or bought by the Singularity University people or something, but whatever. I don't think they own it anymore. Here's the meat. This is what Grock says. Elon's potential to advance humanity could benefit billions. It would be okay with annihilating up to 50% of Earth's 8. 26 billion population. And of course, Grock is saying this. Grock pretends to be an AI, but it's not an AI because AI doesn't exist. It is a chat box that is specifically programmed, not by Elon Musk, but people who are much more capable than him. And it is programmed specifically to say embarrassingly, pathetically, so see-through [ __ ] stupid [ __ ] about how great Elon Musk is. because it's valuable if you think Elon Musk is benefiting humanity even though like all the evidence to our eyes. I mean like he particularly Elon Musk is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands like he uniquely individually ran through the government, cut a bunch of programs, stole all of our data and hundreds of thousands of people died. like a mass murder on a scale the world hasn't seen. And yet he has programmed his chat box on the social media site that he owns to specifically talk about how actually he's saving the world. Orwellian style statement that anyone with eyes can see is just like factually not true, but like so [ __ ] pathetic that he would attempt to do that. It's just like what a [ __ ] garbage loser. And I'm super curious like have the billionaires convinced themselves that like actually I'm doing philanthropy when they're like ruining people's lives like hoarding the resources that could literally help people. Peter Deandas, you know, not a medical doctor, not a scientist, but factually does have billions of dollars. if he actually wanted to improve longevity, something he could do with his billion dollars is like, I don't know, buy some senators and make them pass Medicare for all because like factually rich people live 12 years longer than poor people to improve the human lifespan. Hey, what do you know? Provide health care for the people. Like you could just do that with your billion

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dollars. So, like, why are you pretending to care about longevity? That that's just simply not true. That's a lie. Lack of sleep kills. Stress kills. Anxiety kills. You could use your billion dollars to, I don't know, run a bunch of ads. Create an organization that teaches workers how to form unions and demand like better working hours, better paychecks, better benefits. again, buy some senators and get like universal daycare passed so people aren't losing their minds working two shifts to pay $4,200 a month for infant daycare in a major city. Do you know what I mean? Like because obviously he's only interested in hoarding. He wants to be more wealthy. He wants to sit on his pile of gold like a little dragon, but also he wants you to think he's super smart. So like actually Angela you're an idiot for thinking you could help people with a billion dollars. Obviously the philanthropic thing to do is fund seminars where you talk about nanobots. So Tad friend has a quote from some doctors who work at the clinic. Most of the time I'm being forced to optimize the most optimized people. What we do in longevity clinics is polish polished diamonds. The supplements, the bloodletting, the ice baths. They're doing nothing for these rich ass people who already live lives of luxury that include access to health care. These people are already living the longest life possible. These tools do nothing. Shoving 180 supplements down your throat each day does nothing but lie in this guy's pocket specifically. So D Mandis, you know, via Tad friend is really trying to convince us that like no, no, this isn't a grift. And actually, he along with the other incredibly wealthy people are sacrificing themselves in order to do these experiments for you and I. At the abundance conference, Diamandis' audience seemed receptive to his reminders that the two biggest wealth creation opportunities are AI and longevity. Part of his appeal is his insistence that extending your own life and growing richer in the process will ultimately benefit the species. I just if you live longer and hoard more wealth and prevent other people from having access to sleep and health care and food, you're just benefiting this species. He conceived of an accredited patient program, an FDA backed system that would allow select people to invest in treatments unavailable to the general public. My basic idea is I have enough money and I'm of sound mind. I'm going to try it. He contends that the longevity pursuing risk takers he lives among are actually selfless. Any negative effects from technologies that don't work will be experienced by the wealthy. He said you could see it as their sacrifice for others, both financial and eventually biological. He's just a selfless little boy. The billions of honored wealth he just sits on like a little dragon that he has physically taken. He has physically taken by exploiting the work of others, preventing those people from having access to food and health care and sleep and access to housing. You see, they're suffering. But really, he's suffering because he wakes up and puts the red light on his face. Who's really suffering here? Us, the peons, the worker bees who have a shortened lifespan because things have been taken from us and there's a giant wealth inequality or that guy who volunteers to take 50 pills a day. Who's really suffering? Well, probably the real people who are actually suffering are the actual real human beings that died after undergoing experimental treatments that were backed by Diamandis' company. Probably those people are the actual people that are suffering. In January, the Times reported that Xther Medical, the company whose blood filters Diamandis praised at the Buck Institute, had sold thousands of its devices to a company with a clinic in Antigua that offered miracle treatments to patients with metastic cancer. The Times described harrowingly neglectful care and said that at least six patients had died after treatment. The story also noted that the company continued to promote the clinic despite warnings from Exthera employees. When I asked Diamandis about the reporting, he said that it had paused a lot of the Fountain of Life's plans. Then he added, "Listen, they've also had some incredible breakthroughs. " Peter's rule number 141. Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make. So these people, these rich people

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they're obsessed with living forever, right? Isn't that weird? Like I don't understand why. Like you and I, you know, we have to go to work. we have like limited resources and limited time and like maybe if we could live an extra 20 like healthy years, we would use that to do stuff, you know, hobbies, read books, spend more time volunteering or with family, you know, maybe I would play with my grandchildren instead of dropping dead on the floor of Walmart because I can't retire. But like these people, they have unlimited money essentially. They also have the maximum amount of time a human being can have because they don't have jobs. They can just do whatever. And yet they spend their lives popping 50 pills a day while ignoring their families to get on a plane and fly across the world to attend a super spreader event where people like Peter Theel and Elon Musk give a talk about like nanobots. Like do you literally want to increase your lifespan so you can keep doing that? like that's your goal here and Peter Diamandis is like yeah literally that's what I want to do again to just keep reading to you this article which is wonderful by the way please go read this article Peter says there's so much fascinating stuff happening right now that if I didn't have a family I would be in meetings and conferences every second I could literally be on an airplane circling the globe nonstop. This man, this man is literally living his dream, ignoring his family, flying to meetings with strangers, getting up on a stage and being like, "Guys, sharks live a long time. What if we did? " I just You want to extend your life so you can spend more time with Tony Robbins? [gasps] In mid- November, Joyce Carol Oats, an author and a professional racist old lady, on Twitter, for some reason she's still on Twitter, pointed out to Elon Musk, "So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates. Scenes from nature, pet a dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book, but I doubt that he reads. Pride in a friend's or relatives accomplishment, condolences for someone who has died, pleasure in sports, a claim for a favorite team, references to history. In fact, he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty and meaning in life than the most wealthy person in the world. And like, damn. But also, Elon Musk does nothing but tweet. And so if he had ever read a book or pet a dog or appreciated a friend, he could have pulled that up. But he couldn't. So instead, like a child, he had a public meltdown demanding that people, his friends on the social media site he owns, admit that she was wrong. And actually, he's like really cool and he likes culture. He started searching movies like what movies do men like? I don't know, Fight Club, Children of Men. And then he would find a tweet where someone was talking about it and be like, "That's a good movie. I like movie. I'm a normal guy. I like movies. " And like Jesus Christ, like imagine such a lack of joy, zero appreciation for art or media or culture in such an extreme way that you can't even watch a movie. What life do you have if you can't watch a movie? If you want to have a good time or like make people really laugh at a party, uh you can use Grock and you can say uh do a vulgar roast of someone. Um and Grock is going to it's going to be an epic vulgar roast. You can even say like take a picture of like — thing about billionaires is that they're insulated from the world. And when people think about that, I think they usually only think about like the negative experiences. Like a billionaire will never get paid on the third of the month. notice on the 5th that all of the money has gone to bills, get in their car, turn it on, see the check engine light, and burst into tears, right? That experience will never happen for them. Even like minuscule little annoying things they never have to experience. I moved recently and it sucked. It was

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really annoying. It was expensive. It took a lot of time. energy like packing and moving, driving 12 hours, whatever. It was annoying and it sucked. And I remember just sitting amongst the boxes being like, man, if I was really wealthy, I could just have someone do this. Like I could go on vacation for three weeks and say, "Please move my house to this house. " And I could just come back from like a wonderful Mexican beach, waltz into the door, and just all my stuff would be unpacked. And like, wouldn't that be amazing? Like that's the kind of life they live. Like never have to experience any negative emotions or feelings, right? That might seem like a good exciting thing for people, but you basically become a toddler. Let me share a piece of parenting advice with you. So, toddlers are new to the world and they experience very strong emotions, right? So, like a three-year-old throws away an envelope they've been coloring on and then loses their [ __ ] about the action they just took. They decided to throw away that envelope and now they are in tears. They are on the floor banging, kicking, being like, "I want an I want my envelope back. Why is it in the trash? " And you could offer them a new envelope, but that's not the envelope they want. And they're going to scream. And three days later, they'll just be in tears. And you'll be like, "Oh my god, bud. What? What's going on? Are you okay? " And they'll be like, "I threw away my envelope. " Like, as an adult, that seems crazy, right? Like, dude, it's just a [ __ ] piece of paper. I can get you more paper. It's fine. But the parenting advice is this. You have to realize that for that three-year-old, that event, that thing that happened to them is literally the worst day of their life. That event, tossing a thing they didn't realize they would want to keep is the worst thing that's ever happened to them. So those big emotions might seem wild and weird to you, an adult who's lived a much fuller life and has experienced much worse things, but to that little guy, worst day of his life, right? And the whole thing is like they're a child. They are feeling big emotions for the first time. As they learn and change and grow, they will develop a way to like regulate that. And as they experience new things, they will realize what's important and what's worth freaking out about. It's part of growing up to be an adult, right? a billionaire, an adult male billionaire losing his [ __ ] because some racist old lady was like, "Dude, I noticed you've never pet a puppy. That's kind of [ __ ] pathetic and weird. " Is [gasps and laughter] it's just so [ __ ] pathetic. Like, having a meltdown publicly again on the social media site you own is just so [ __ ] pathetic. It's not appropriate behavior for an adult. It's embarrassing. And oh my god, how has no one in his life shown enough love for him to be like, "Dude, what the [ __ ] Stop posting. " But something else I think people don't think about is when you are a billionaire, you are insulated from those negative experiences, which can lead you to act like a toddler in an embarrassing, pathetic display publicly that's there forever. But also, you are shielded from positive experiences in a way that I just don't understand why that life is worth living. Have you ever gone on like a really good first date and you go home like you're driving home and you're like, "Holy [ __ ] that was so good. I can't believe we were quoting the same Gravity Falls episode to each other and we have the same dreams and oh my god, this could be something. " Ah, it's so exciting, right? First date, what a positive feeling. A billionaire can never have that cuz it's like, "Oh, does she like the same show I like or does she just want a billion dollars? Oh, did she like commiserate with my work story or does she just want a billion dollars? Oh, does she really like me or did I just change the definition of astronaut, purchase a fully functioning rocket company, send her up into space, have a journalist I pay on my salary, publish an article about how cool and brave and smart she is in the newspaper I own. Maybe you should buy her the Met Gala. Apparently, culture is for sale. That will impress her. Surely, surely all the actual creative people will think that counts as a creative act. Why not? Then you'll know if she likes you. You ever go to a meeting and have a really good idea like in your field? Like you just give a presentation, everyone's like, "Wow, that was really good. " And you're just like eye for like two months of like, "I'm good at my job. Yay. " Or do will they just let you push whatever dumbass product you want and then when it fails everyone's going to be confused because like it was a really good idea. Was it a really good idea, Zuck? You do this every 3 years. It's pretty embarrassing. You're not having good ideas. People just want your billion dollars. Imagine living a life where every time you make a joke, no matter if

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it's like a little quip or like a belly laugh, very funny joke, people respond as if it's the funniest thing they've ever heard. Every stupid little joke you make stops the room. People belly laugh. They slap each other on the back. They're like, "You're so funny. Are you funny? Or do people just want your billion dollars? " Imagine living a life where you never get to tell a joke again. You would start telling the shittiest jokes and eventually you'd find yourself here and suddenly you're in front of a room full of people who are not being paid to laugh at your jokes and you realize everyone hates you and they've hated you this whole time and none of your jokes are funny. Like what a nightmare. A monkeykey's paw fouian bargain situation. Like who wants to live? Why do you want to live longer for that? I feel like I could do this all day. Do your adult children love you, Brian Johnson, or do they have an alert set up in their phone to call you every 9. 174 days because they really want that inheritance? Did they show up for Thanksgiving? I mean, you measured their boners and talked about it on the internet, dude. Like, do you think your adult children love you? Can you ever be sure? I'm not saying anything revolutionary here. First of all, the Brian Johnson thing was also in this article. And I don't want to talk about bonaries. That makes me embarrassed. I don't want to do that. And also, Lily Alexander has a video on that. I will link it below. She's on Nebula with me. Somebody remind me to do the Nebula ad read later. It's up here. I'm going to do it. Great video. I'll link it below. But also, this video says the same thing I'm saying right now. [snorts] And again, not revolutionary here. The life you live is the experiences you have and not the wealth you generate is just like so cliche. It's like, do I even It's the Scrooge. It's this is a Christmas video now. That is the tale of Ebenez or Scrooge. It is King Midas. If everything you touch turned to gold, you have nothing. Like we all know this. It's cliche, but also it's just factually true. Why are they so intent on lengthening their lives when they have nothing? They are not living. They have nothing. Why do they want that to continue? It seems like hell on earth. Like to live a life knowing that objectively you are responsible. You hold the responsibility of the sufferings of others. You have the means to fix it and you simply choose not to do that. Never knowing if any relationship you forged is an actual relationship or a transactional relationship. Never making a joke without a little tickle in the back of your brain being like, "Are they laughing at my joke or do they just want my billion dollars? " Like, what kind of life is that? Why make this longer? Nebula is a streaming service that I post videos on. I also have videos over there that are not on YouTube. Here are the thumbnails of some of them. Go watch them if you want. But here's the pitch. Here's the real thing. I did a video about PBS Kids and how awesome it is. And to kind of intro that video, I talked about the most popular kid show in the world right now, Bluey. And I said, "Hey, I'm not gonna answer this question, but isn't it kind of weird that Bluey is for adults? Isn't that weird? " And then I said in the video, "Well, I'm going to get comments from Bluey adults, partially because Bluey adults are real weird about Bluey. That is a different video. " And then you guys, two days later, Nebula exclusive Lindsy Ellis video, Bluey adults. Like I said, man, I would love to see a video about Bluey adults. That's the dream of Nebula. If you would like to support the channel, I don't remember the numbers. I will voice over the Hey chat, I thought it was 40% off the yearly subscription, but actually in December there's a deal right now where it's 50% off the yearly subscription. So, you can get a year of Nebula for 30 bucks, which is a great deal. And also, if you are gifting at this time, what a great gift. I love giving subscriptions as gifts. Also, there's a 3-day free trial, so you could just sign up with my link and watch all the things you want and then cancel, but like, who would do that? Okay, bye. Thank you. Sign up with my link. QR code link in the description. Watch my PBS video there as the appetizer. What's going on with Blueie? And then watch the real Bluey video, the meat and potatoes

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of the Bluey situation. I love that happened. Like imagine saying, "Man, I would love to see a video like this. " And then one of your favorite creators just happened to have been making that video and posted it. Like I don't know her, but she like just that that's crazy. It's a good video. That's the dream of Nebula. — Heat. — Why make this video? That's the question. I'm not making science videos for a while for reasons. It's fine. But I have been making billionaire videos for a couple years. So, this is not out of place for me, I think. But sometimes when I make videos about billionaires, people are like, "Stick to science. You're just jealous of the billionaires. Bill Gates is a good billionaire, actually. " And um maybe it's all bots doing that. Maybe that's true. But like I do think some of these comments are real people which leads me to believe that for some people billionaires who in my eyes are just so objectively like evil and a drain on society that we should have government regulations prevent them from existing. Not like the human persons but the status of billionaire. But some people see that as aspirational. Some people are like, "Man, if I was given the opportunity, you know, a small $700,000 loan from my parents to start a business and then exploit a bunch of workers, perhaps even leading to some of their deaths, just to steal their profits from their labor and turn it into a giant golden pile that I could sit on like a dragon and then I could do tax evasion and suck fascism dick. I would love to do that. " Like I feel like there are people who are like I see them doing that and man what a dream and I just makes me real sad I guess. But it's also evidence that we need a more serious government regulation solution to the billionaire issue. But no, I'm not jealous of billionaires. Do you think Robin Hood was jealous of King John? Do you think like the people who work at Walmart, who work full-time jobs and do not receive compensation or health insurance or overtime or 401k benefits, who had their SNAP benefits rescended and sat down to an empty Thanksgiving table? Do you think they look at the billionaires who stole those things from them and they're jealous? Or do you think they have a righteous

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anger? I am not jealous of their business acumen. I am angry at their thievery. That's not jealousy. And also, I'm going to admit something embarrassing and dumb about myself, but like I think videos like this are important because you see Jeff Bezos is friends with the president. the president unlawfully, but like you know who's counting, destroyed the economy and as a result, Jeff Bezos raised the prices in his grocery store. Jeff Bezos also owns the newspapers where Jeff Bezos makes articles that are like, "You guys actually higher grocery prices are good. " So, I just think it's important that like collectively we all sit here and we say, "Hi, we're not falling for this garbage. " Like, no, it. We don't think you're smart. You can host as many conferences as you want where you get up on stage and you jump around and you're like, "AI nanobots. " Like, no one thinks you're smart. doing anything. No one thinks you're contribute you have a creative bone in your body to ever actually solve a problem. All you've done is hoard the wealth and steal it and take it from us. And now you want to convince us that actually you're the selfless hero. You're a sol you're a philanthropist and like we're not falling for it. No, you're not. I do think it's important to say like we don't believe you. We are laughing at you. I mean, while you kill us all, but like we're still laughing at you. You can't buy respect. And also, by the way, have I mentioned in this video that you can't live forever? Like, obviously, that's just not a thing you can do. It's not a software problem or a hardware problem. It's just a fact of physics and space and time. This whole thing is a farce.