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Reversing the aging process looks to be much easier problem to solve than uploading the brain. I dont understand why Elon didnt put his money in that direction.
by xiphias2 4y ago
Reversing the aging process looks to be much easier problem to solve than uploading the brain. I dont understand why Elon didnt put his money in that direction. Luckily some people are starting to understand how close we are at solving reversing aging (measured in decades).
- piloto_ciego 4y agoHe’s not that old yet, give him time.
- xiphias2 4y agoHe has 0.6% chance of dying at his age in 1 year, so it may be wise to put 0.6% of his net worth to use to combat it ($1B/year). Of course Jeff Bezos is a bit closer, but Jeff investing only a few billion dollars in 1 company (even though it’s the most important company) is also not rational.
- KerrAvon 4y agoRemember that he’s not actually that smart. Rob Beschizza has the best description of Musk: “I love how childish and petty it is. There is no depth or human complexity to Musk whatsoever: he's just a rich kid who got lucky and now we marvel at his exertions day in, day out. The New York Times still casts Musk as a public intellectual, even now, because its editors live in a floating world of narrative imagination and are impervious to the facts of the matter. In return, he calls it ‘diarrhea.’ They completely deserve one another.” https://boingboing.net/2023/04/02/petulant-musk-rants-about-new-york-times-and-takes-away-its-blue-check.html https://boingboing.net/2023/04/02/petulant-musk-rants-about-...
- extheat 4y agoWell, that's alot of "luck" then. If only everyone could be as "lucky". I wonder how many CEOs have in-depth understanding of their products? My guess is it would be few.
- electric_mayhem 4y agoYou might get some mileage out of FoolEd By Randomness, by N. Taleb. What brings it to mind here is there’s a thought experiment that considers a very large number of people playing a series of rounds of Russian roulette. At the end there are a handful of very lucky and very wealthy people (and a vast graveyard of th unlucky).
- justrealist 4y agoTaleb writes entertaining books, but fundamentally is a trader who made one good bet (against the housing bubble) and is going to milk it for the rest of his life (which is, amusingly, exactly what he accuses Elon of doing).
- crabkin 4y agoErm showing a a bit bad faith here. Taleb got his big break in the 80s. I think it was Black Monday, when he held long and deeply out of the money puts and watched them bring him considerable return while other market actors went out of business. Maybe the commenter above you is kind of retrofitting Taleb's ideas, but fundamentally Taleb is a real thinker, and Elon is a real people manager/entrepreneur. I don't understand why we think successful business people somehow have the same acumen, or equivalent inclinations as a philosopher or an artist. For sure there is some overlap, but at the end of the day I think it's more probable Elon's intelligence and aptitude are overrated by just about everyone while his people managing skills and luck are underrated by just about everyone.
- jacquesm 4y agoThe irony is very amusing on this.
- watwut 4y agoHe does not have in dept understanding of his product. He is massively charismatic, good at impressing people and very good at playing people. And most CEOs does not seem that bad compared to Musk.
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- smt88 4y agoI don't know why you assume he isn't investing in solving aging privately. It's also a huge pet issue for all his wealthy SV friends (Thiel et al), so he may not feel he needs to add anything to it personally.
- leobg 4y agoBecause he thinks death is a useful thing, an enabler of change and adaptation. “People don’t change their minds. They just die.“ He explicitly said that he doesn’t want to live forever. Very different from other Silicon Valley rich kids. Humble, actually. Remember Kurzweil? Called Steve Jobs’ commencement speech about death being nature’s change agent a “deathist statement”.
- corbulo 4y agoIt was a philosophical decision. Paraphrasing, he believes that if people live too long it will hinder political evolution.
- tablespoon 4y ago> Reversing the aging process looks to be much easier problem to solve than uploading the brain. I dont understand why Elon didnt put his money in that direction. Perhaps because it's much less prominent in science fiction.
- jacquesm 4y agoIra Levin, 'This Perfect Day'.
- ChatGTP 4y agoIt’s not about uploading the brain is it? I thought the goal is a computer brain interface to keep up with AI developments?
- justrealist 4y agoNeuralink's premise is that unless humans undergo radical augmentation, we will become obsolete as contrasted to purely-mechanical thinking machines. Electronic / machine augmentation is a strategy for us to stay in-the-loop in order to maintain effective control. Reversing aging does nothing to solve the same problem.
- MisterBastahrd 4y agoI'll believe that premise when Elon goes under the knife and becomes queen of the Borg.
- pyinstallwoes 4y agoBecause it isn't about aging, it is about solving the "ai alignment problem."