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Is this an investment that disease and genetics researchers believe will be valuable? Or is this primarily tax deductible funds flowing back into the AI indust
by burnto 5mo ago
Is this an investment that disease and genetics researchers believe will be valuable?
Or is this primarily tax deductible funds flowing back into the AI industrial complex?
(Honest question! If it’s a truly promising path that’s great)
- Tostino 5mo agoAn attempt to live forever IMO.
- adamandsteve2 5mo agoIs that an issue?
- vibrio 5mo agoJust in that it’s not gonna work.
- adamandsteve2 5mo agoWhy not? No law of physics prevents it and we already have examples of (albeit simpler) organisms that can live forever. Worst case scenario, we grow a clone of your body, transplant your brain into it, then somehow repair the spinal cord and slowly replace your brain tissue piece-by-piece. Might be a difficult engineering challenge but it’s 100% possible.
- cindyllm 5mo ago[dead]
- Onavo 5mo agoThey will probably do a rugpull like what they with their children school funding.
- OutOfHere 5mo agoIt's also what they did with meta.org (a trademark grab followed by a rugpull): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_(academic_company) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_(academic_company)
- apparent 5mo agoAlternate theory: part of the reason they stopped funding the school is to allocate their philanthropy to projects like this one.
- d_silin 5mo agoIt is a valuable initiative, regardless of Zuckerbergs personas.
- jghn 5mo agoThey already donate a lot of useful money via the Chan Zuckerberg Institute so there’s a good track record at least
- randycupertino 5mo agoChan Zuckerberg Institute doesn't produce much actual research it's mostly fancy dinners, global travel for congresses and conferences and big opulent parties. They actually got in trouble in the building with the landlord for too many parties, there was a problem drunken individuals peeing in the hallways when they had Justin Bieber and other celebs on site (seriously).
- walletdrainer 5mo agohttps://chanzuckerberg.com/grants-ventures/grants/ https://chanzuckerberg.com/grants-ventures/grants/ A lot of parties.
- jghn 5mo agoPurely anecdata but I know many people who have had their work funded through CZI. And no, this wasn't drunken parties.
- chermi 5mo agoLol cool anecdote. Guess karma for hating on billionaires is more important than saving lives.