longevity

14 Nov

How to Not Die in Silicon Valley

stp2y0 CommentsRAG modelsdeath, longevity, podcasts, silicon valley, Technology, uncanny valley podcast

Lauren Goode: Zoë, you had vegan pizza the other night. You said it was pretty good.Zoë Schiffer: I did. I did, and I read a really, really scary article written by Annie Lowrey in The Atlantic about dairy farming, and it radicalized me for at least 24 hours. I was on oat milk. Thank you. I don't want a prize.Lauren Goode: Mike, how long have you been vegan for now?Michael Calore: I don't know. 800 years.Lauren Goode: Nice. Our resident long-living man on this show.Michael Calore: I've been fully vegan for about five years, and I've been vegetarian ever since…

13 Jun

If Ray Kurzweil Is Right (Again), You’ll Meet His Immortal Soul in the Cloud

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You put a stake in the ground with your book The Singularity Is Near. This one is called The Singularity Is Nearer. How do you define the singularity?To me it’s when a human will not only be able to do everything that other people can do, but also create something new, like curing certain forms of cancer. AI is integral to doing that, because you can actually try out every single possible combination of things that might cure cancer. And instead of asking which one of those billions of possible cures are we going to try, we can try them…