EXCERPT from PATRICK WOOD's article at
https://www.technocracy.news/arch-technocrat-billionaires-pouring-fortunes-into-eternal-life/
In his 2023 “Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” the billionaire venture-capitalist Marc Andreessen made the following assertion: “We believe artificial intelligence is our alchemy, our Philosophers’ Stone — we are literally making sand think.” This was something of a tell, this invocation of the Philosophers’ Stone: a mythical material that the alchemists of antiquity and the Middle Ages believed could transmute base metals into gold, and could be used to produce a potion that granted its drinker eternal youth. This is the promise of technology, that it will intercede between us and our deaths. This is the promise of money itself.
For now, though, no matter how greatly a person is enlarged by his wealth, his own power and prestige, there is no escaping the determinism of death. Bryan Johnson will die. Peter Thiel will die. Sam Altman will die. Xi Jinping will die. Donald Trump will die. Vladimir Putin will die. And so will you, and so will I, and so will all those now living and yet unborn. Not a one of us will be saved: not by 3-D-printed organs, not by artificial superintelligence, not by transfusions of plasma from our beloved and indulgent teenage sons. None of these things will intervene between even the richest and most powerful of us and our common animal end. The great and terrible democracy of death abides.
Rick says- I'm not sure I agree yet. I think the billionnaires are missing the boat of em-biology and quantum reality that provides our exoskeleton of electromagnetic L-field and T-fields. They should be reviewing Harold S. Burr, Edward T. Russell and associated ideas of Doug Matzke. In effect, the billionnaires should be here in this forum reading me and paying me for more of my insights into my direction.
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