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EP 70: Tim Urban (Author, "Wait But Why") on Wokeness, AI Girlfriends and Humans Living to 150 Years Old

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The Future of Technology

There's a few things in there that I wanna touch on, and at least you've written about a few different things. Cryonics is like a subtopic of that, but just in general, what are the prospects of if you look at these graphs of life extension of human lifespan? And it's such a great story except it's like pinned down like a year, 100 around. It's just like there aren't even outliers. There's not one person who like happens to live to 150. This is our software, that's a software problem. The fact that there's not means there's something in our software that basically says without question, 100%, this person must be shut

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