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I 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 n
by smt88 4y ago
I 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”.