Peter Diamandis, a futurist with a degree from both MIT and Harvard, has spent most of the past two decades evaluating a vision of a “prosperous future” driven by exponential technologies that will expand our lives. The serial entrepreneur and founder of organizations such as the Xprize Foundation and Singularity University have also planted close ties with some of the most influential business minds in the world, including Elon Musk.
Admirers subscribe to his optimistic forecasts and data supported arguments that the technology has raised billions of poverty and improved global living standards. They too Buy his books. Critics argue that his techno-utopian vision does not look at the growing inequality and systematic imbalance, including the US, where under 50% of households holds less than 4% of national wealth, while the top 10% command of two-thirds.
No matter their views on diamandis, many see him an intriguing modern figure, and when we had the opportunity to talk to him recently about prosperity and longevity – including what he thought of Byran Johnson, a former acquaintance of his tried Reverse The aging process – we got it. (Diamandis, now 63, he says “Biologically 39. ”)
You hear that talk Here;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; Meanwhile, you will find excerpts, edited for length, below.
Recently, you tweeted, “We are close to the speed of longevity that I encourage you to remember that your single responsibility now is to prevent death from something stupid.” What is the inspiration specifically?
I feel like we're in the middle of a health revolution. And it's not meant. This is the effect of most AI, calculation, sensor, single-cell order, cellular drugs — a full murder of converting technologies [that] helps us understand why we age, how to slow it down, stop it, potentially reverse it. There is a concept called Longevity Escape Velocity, and the notion is that now, for every year you are alive, science and medicine expand your while life through a certain amount of time, between a year every year every year to a third of a year each year. But there will be a point where, for every year you live, science has expanded your life for more than a year. Aubrey de Gray and Ray Kurzweil advised the idea, I researched it, I invested here. And the current thinking is that we will hit the speed of longevity – if you have a reasonable way and good health – sometimes in the next decade. And if that's the case, you don't want to miss it. You know, you want to be healthier, and you want to be here.
What does “reasonably mean”? Because it is clear that there is a lot of concerns about what is going on in our society [regarding access to healthcare]be alone in the whole world. The numbers move in the wrong direction.
Is it just a stretch for the rich? Is that what you ask? First of all, the things you can do now are free. First and foremost, this is your diet. What you eat is important fundamentally, isn't it? Our bodies are never designed to consume a lot of sugar in our extraction. Sugar is a poison in the amount we ingesting. We are accustomed to adopting a pair of pounds per year of sugar 200 years ago. Now, we intake, like, 60 pounds a year of sugar. It's a neuroinflammatory, it's a cardiac inflammatory … At the end of the day, your diet is critical. Sleep is basic. You need to get seven to eight hours of sleep quality, which means deep sleep and REM; This deficiency will cause you to produce a neurodegenerative disease, Alzheimer's, whatever it is. [And] Exercise is the number one pro-longevity thing you can do. I'm in the gym for five days outside the week, lifting weight, keeping muscle mass. This is the key. Again, none of these things cost me any money. The cheapest thing, which is so powerful, is your mindset … Optimists live 15% longer than pessimists … So when people say, Oh My God, longevity is just for the rich, I cry foul. No, it's for people who care for longevity and want to focus on it.
So that's the base layer …
There is a next tier of things that are starting to access money access, and this includes drugs and supplements. I got a laugh -laughing number of meds and supplement day -day, but I developed until over time. And then there is a advanced test to catch the disease in advance; The test ranges in price from 500 bucks to 50,000 bucks, depending on how deep you want to go.
But there is one last important thing. One of the hottest areas of long -life research is called epigenetic reprogramming. So we are all born with 3.2 billion letters from our mother and 3.2 billion letters from our father. This is our genome. This is our software … and you have the same genome when you are born, when you are 20, when you are 50, when you are 100. So why are you so different? This is what genes are and what genes are. It is a type of control mechanism for consuming and off the genes to different body tissues as we grow older. So the hottest investment place – and I also invested in some of these companies – was epigenetic reprogramming. Can I reprogram your epigenome to get you back to a more youthful state? … In the beginning, if it is dangerous and it does not work properly, yes, the billionaires will take the risks. But once it starts to work properly, and we talk for single-digit years, it will be cheap and available to most.
Is there a company that you invested in that really shows your approach to longevity?
In the last 30 years [as the founder of the XPRIZE Foundation]We launched about $ 600 million in prizes, driving $ 10 billion in R&D. And a year and a half ago, I raised $ 157 million and launched a healthspan Xprize. So it's $ 111 million of the prize money. The rest of it is to run the competition and do all the test. And with this Xprize, teams need to show the ability to reverse the accumulation of comprehension, immune, and muscle, which means in population 60 to 80 years old, if I give you this therapy from the winning team, do you now think of you and are capable of 20 years ago? Your ability to mounted an immune reaction to you 20 years younger? Is your ability to build and maintain muscle that you 20 years younger? And we want 620 teams to enter that Xprize. It was awarded by 2030. We are about to give $ 10 million money to the top 40 teams; They get a quarter million dollars each in May of this year. So I'm very excited. There are all kinds of techniques that you can imagine with 620 competition teams.
How can you change your thinking about longevity with Bryan Johnson doing Blueprint?
Bryan has known me for 10 years. I got her along the business when she sold Braintree and she moved to LA that I had [co-founded] A company called Human Longevity … Down to San Diego, and Bryan became an investor in that and a board member at the company, and we separated ways. So how can I put it? You know, what Bryan is doing is n-of-one experiment. I'm so happy that he's doing it. He is kind of a pioneer, and we will see what will happen there. I don't have to talk about my erections at night as he does, but I think he gets a lot of attention to the media. The approach I bring here through the Xprize Foundation is a huge global competition in which we are trying hundreds of different techniques. All of this is definitely measured. Every team that competes needs to bestable enough individuals to the right age to show that they can do what they say. So this is a huge scientific back, experimentally -to -normalize competition.
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