“83.3% of ChatGPT users couldn't quote from essays they wrote minutes earlier.” Sources: @itsalexvacca ; Your Brain on ChatGPT
Source: @Yuchenj_UW
Life trajectories according to when Longevity Escape Velocity is reached.
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Thanks for your interest and continuing to read this blog! I can’t image a more important technology to benefit humanity and create wealth.
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Average Americans are living 10-15 years less than people in other developed countries.
“Win the morning to win the day.”
It’s odd that I'm writing this. I never thought I’d have a skincare routine, let alone write about one. This all changed when I found a product that...
What if AI could generate novel drugs to target any disease, overnight, ready for clinical trials?
We are on the cusp of a stem cell revolution.
Exercise is the single most important pro-longevity activity you can undertake.
There is a direct relationship between how well you sleep and how long you live.
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What if you could edit your own genome? Fix a genetic error or decide to alter or optimize one of your traits? Would you?
Why are the world’s billionaires pouring money into longevity and age-reversal tech?
What if you could reverse your biological age? Turn back the clock to an earlier, youthful age?
What if you had a supply of “spare organs”—hearts, livers, lungs, and kidneys—available to you as aged?
Connect the circulatory system of an old mouse with that of a young mouse and the old mouse gets younger!
XPRIZE has launched 30 prizes in 30 years... over $500M worth of incentive purses driving 30x value ($15 Billion). Amazing.
How long do you want to live?
How long you live is a function of many factors, most importantly your lifestyle and mindset.
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The 2024 Abundance Summit was the best ever. Themed "The Great AI Debate," we discussed whether digital superintelligence represents humanity's...
Before the end of this decade, you’ll be able to order an on-demand aerial rideshare as easily as you currently request an Uber.
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Autonomous, electric, ride-sharing “car-as-a-service” (using robotaxis) has the potential to be 80% cheaper than individual car ownership.
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Famed Stability AI CEO, Emad Mostaque, stepped down as CEO the day after speaking at the 2024 Abundance Summit.
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If there’s one truth I’ve lived by, it’s this: Entrepreneurs, armed with purpose-driven, crazy ideas change the world every day.
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The total number of amazing humanoid robots under development is breathtaking.
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AI-powered education is something we owe the next generation.
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AI is about to become the biggest investment theme in the world. So how do you get started investing?
How deeply entwined will your personal AI (copilot) become in every aspect of your personal and business life?
What happens when your Alexa and Google Assistant can see and do?
Regrowing human limbs and organs... the stuff of science fiction, is on the horizon.
First, let me state my position that AI is the most important technology humanity has ever created. In the long term, it will bring immeasurable good.
Are you keeping up with all the AI breakthroughs?
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What happens when AIs are smarter than humans?
The year 2023 was EPIC—a watershed moment in the field of AI and the launch of humanoid robotics.
What happens when AI surpasses human-level intelligence? And WHEN exactly is this likely to happen?
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Which industries will face disruption this decade?
Why are the world’s top AI leaders suddenly talking about abundance?
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Why is the field of AI exploding now?
“We will see as much progress in the decade ahead (2023 – 2033) as we have seen in the past century (1923 – 2023).”
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Let’s talk about the “rich-poor divide.”
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that ain’t so.”
"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."
We humans are an ingenious species.
What distinguishes Homo sapiens from almost all other species on the planet is our ability to solve problems.
I’m often asked what concerns me about the decade ahead.
Ready for some more data-driven optimism?
The world is getting better on many critical and measurable fronts.
You’ve no doubt heard of Moore’s Law. But do you know its history and exactly how it works?
What if you had a reliable roadmap to predict the future?
In our exponential world, change is the only constant. For any company, sitting still equals death.
Humans are linear thinkers living in an exponential world.
An Abundance Mindset is all about a change in perspective—enabled by innovation.
Technology is transforming scarcity into abundance... everywhere, with everything.
How many “breakthroughs” were there throughout all of 1922?
We forget how fast the world is changing today, and how slooooow innovation was just a century back.
Would you rather live in 2023 or a hundred years ago in 1923?
Many people romanticize the past, believing that life in “the good old days” was better than we have it today.
The human body was never designed to live past age 30.
Our brains are neural nets, and your mindset is shaped by what you feed your senses.
The human “default mindset” wired into our brain 100,000 years ago is fear and scarcity. It’s time for a mindset upgrade.
Is there any reason to be optimistic?
Abundance for all is within our grasp.
Having an Abundance Mindset can transform your life, your team, and your business.
Peter Thiel famously asked, “What important truth do you believe, that very few people agree with you on?”
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How do you keep a virtualized, Exponential Organization connected and on the same page?
Do you trust your employees? Do you give them sufficient autonomy?
Building a culture of Experimentation in your startup is probably one of THE MOST important things you can do.
Can the fountain of youth come in the form a pill?
“If you’re moving at the speed of light, it’s important to know you’re moving in the right direction.” – Anonymous
If I were going to start another company today, it would be a PLATFORM business.
How do you engage your customers? Keep them caring and connected?
What made Uber and AirBnB win over Hertz and Marriott?
There will be two kinds of companies at the end of this decade: those that are fully utilizing AI, and those that are out of business.
Why do people stand in lines for days to get the newest iPhone? How has Wikipedia recruited a global army of volunteers to maintain the site for free?
How long do you WANT to live? (I mean healthy and with vitality, not slobbering in a wheelchair.)
Bill Joy, Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems, famously commented, “No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else.”
Making a dent in the universe or solving the world’s biggest problems requires a TON of hard work.
Two events between 2006 and 2007 forever changed the business world and gave birth to what’s now known as an “Exponential Organization.”
How long might humans live?
I think today’s middle/high school education is failing us.
Exercise is the single most important pro-longevity activity you can undertake.
Most of us have *no idea* what’s really going on in our bodies.
Getting enough sleep is one of the most underappreciated elements of extending your lifespan.
We are in the midst of a healthspan revolution.
Is it OK for the largest AI platforms to be closed and private? Or should they all be open and transparent?
Technology is a force that turns scarcity into abundance.
Can you feel the pace of change accelerating?
Will AI eliminate the need for human programmers in the next five years, or will it turn all of us into coders?
Can we ensure that AI is used ethically? Will AIs themselves develop empathy and ethics? That’s the topic I’d like to discuss today. It’s important.
AI was first discussed in 1956 at a Dartmouth Conference 70 years old. And the first deep-learning-like algorithms were described in 1965.
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METATREND #20: INCREASING GLOBAL ABUNDANCE Peter Thiel famously asked, “What important truth do you believe, that very few people agree with you on?”
Is biological age reversal really possible?
We are at a *very* unique moment—on the cusp of a revolution that will usher in multiple trillion-dollar companies and industries.
What will manufacturing and labor look like in a decade?
How do you feed 8 billion people, all of whom want access to higher-quality, more nutritious and lower-cost protein?
How long until rising sea levels and methane emissions are remembered as quaint troubles from decades ago?
We are on the cusp of an energy revolution.
What if you could detect cancers, heart disease and diabetes before they’ve cost you a single dollar or a hospital visit?
How long do you think you’ll live?
The boundaries between our digital and physical worlds are blurring. How and where we learn, work, and shop are transforming.
What were the top 22 breakthroughs of 2022? And how do they compare to the top breakthroughs of 1922, 100 years ago?
Are you ready to connect your brain to the cloud?
Humanity is covering the planet in sensors... trillions and trillions of sensors forming what is known as the Internet of Things (IoT) or the...
We are blanketing the planet in digital connectivity at an accelerating rate.
How will YOU collaborate with AI to improve your work and business?
What will happen when artificial intelligence (AI) achieves human-level intelligence? And WHEN will this happen?
What happens when EVERYTHING is embedded with intelligence?
Can we create living synthetic cells from scratch?
