Do You Want to Live Forever?

Update: 2025-01-13

Description

Episode 11 - Death

On this week’s Prosthetic Gods Nir and J. discuss the ethics of life extension and anti-aging therapies. Is there a benefit to involuntary death? Would getting very old necessarily be boring or depressing? How can we ensure that everyone benefits?

Links:

Zuckerberg removes fact-checking from Facebook

Bezos imposes ban on criticism of Trump/Musk at WashPo

Sam Altman moves up the timelines for AGI and ASI

Journal abstracts written by asking LLMs to summarize papers are perceived as more authentic, clear and compelling than those created solely by academics.

Credits:

Hosted by James Hughes and Nir Eisikovits

Produced by Jake Burley

Music by Jake Burley

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