And who doesn’t want to be younger for longer?
Oh, of course it's about this. Is it ever not about this with Thiel?
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2024
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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.
AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)
This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.
[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]
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Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison among others proving that at least having billions of dollars doesn't prevent you from experiencing the rather relatable human emotion of thanatophobia.
Oh it must truly suck to be them~
Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison.
I have to admit I like Bryan Cantrill. He might be a Silicon Valley lost causer romantic and hopelessly liberal startup brained techbro, but I like his charismatic wit, appreciation for technological history and willingness to take lessons from it and emphasis on moral integrity. Also I have been burned by the cloud and I want an Oxide rack for hobbyist purposes.
Is "problematic fave" a thing people still say? I hope he doesn't turn out to be a sex creep or something. I hate having to loathe everyone famous in tech.
Lord knows I'm not a sports guy, but even I believe a big fascination with the entire field is that someone can get the combination of physical talent and mental fortitude to make it to the top. And even at the top, like top-level soccer where basically every player, even the substitutes, are way better than the average 5-a-side player, there are transcendent talents that people talk about for decades to come.
Performance-enhancing drugs take away a lot of that fascination. It's literally cheating which is why everyone, not just government killjoys but the fans themselves hate it with a passion.
I believe there's a short SF story about a future like this, where young poor kids are suckered into pumping themselves full of PEs and competing for the benefit of "research", with their inevitable deaths and invalidity just confirming the experiments failures.
To make this work, the organizers will have to have people competing who are already near the top, to deliver those jaw-dropping results for the TV networks, but these people would understand that it's a one-way street. If the even flames out or is banned in multiple countries, they're barred from ever competing in normal events again. It's a libertarian pipe-dream, but then ofcourse Thiel backs it.
I mean I had this exact idea as a child and I thought it would be fun but I also already understood it was very unethical and I had too much self-respect to talk such nonsense to the press.
all I'm reading here (admittedly between the lines) is that they have a whole bucketload of new PE/life-extending/... compounds they wish to test en masse but not on themselves
I wonder how right that guess will turn out to be
this might be more of techtakes content