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"Longevity Escape Velocity"

"Longevity Escape Velocity"

Ray Kurzweil is a child of the 40s.

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Apr 12, 2024
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Perhaps you’ve heard, but Joe Rogan has a podcast. He recently hosted everyone’s favorite futurist and Google AI “visionary”, Ray Kurzweil. Kurzweil is looking forward to technology achieving for humanity what he calls “longevity escape velocity”. (Fast forward to the 25th minute of the episode to get right to it.)

What is longevity escape velocity? The …

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