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Sunday, January 15, 2017 9:53:17 PM
Peter Thiel Wants Young Blood. Do You Want Young Blood?
It probably depends on how rich you are.
yeah, I also heard he wants to run for president in 20..NO. Peter.
By Sarah Rense
Aug 3, 2016
Somewhere in a white-walled room in Silicon Valley, Peter Thiel might be getting a blood transfusion from a younger person. Or he wants to be. Or he already has.
On Monday, Inc. published a story about Thiel, the Silicon Valley billionaire, Gawker bankrupter, and recently out Trump supporter, detailing his obsession with living forever—or quite a bit longer than natural. Apparently, Thiel is interested in injecting the blood of younger people into his veins to extend his life, a rejuvenating juice of youthful plasma. In Silicon Valley, where tech investors pursue invincibility as a side project, this isn't shocking stuff. "I suspect we're a little too biased against all these things in society," Thiel told Inc. a year ago. He's not wrong.
Your body and your mind are limited in the things they can do. You might be smart enough to speak 11 languages or craft complex computer programs. You might be strong enough to dead-lift 900 pounds, fast enough to run on an Olympic track. But most likely, you are of average intelligence and average physicality. Would you undergo biomedical technological enhancement to change that, to know more, lift more, or run more than the best in the world?
A majority of U.S. adults would not.
The Pew Research Center recently conducted a survey of 4,700 adults about biomedical processes to enhance the human body. Specifically, "gene editing to give babies a lifetime with much reduced risk of serious disease, implanting brain chips to give people a much improved ability to concentrate and process information and transfusing of synthetic blood to give people much greater speed, strength and stamina." According to Pew, less than half of those surveyed would be "enthusiastic" about these opportunities, and even more would not want blood (63 percent) or brain (66 percent) enhancements. Results were close to evenly split on gene editing for babies.
In general, enhancements that increase people's performance above "natural" levels were met with wariness, like the innate fear associated with technological singularity—technology will improve, and keep improving, until it gets the best of us. By then, it will be too late. If we keep changing our bodies, if we become more tech than flesh and bone, will we get the best of ourselves?
Thiel wants to be better than his best self.
Pew also surveyed participants on the societal implications of these enhancements. A majority of those surveyed, 63 percent, feared that recipients of synthetic blood transfusions would feel superior to those who were not, and almost three-quarters believed that brain chips would only be available to the wealthy at first, resulting in class inequality. These fears have been echoed in movies and television for decades, with directors envisioning dystopian cityscapes, à la Blade Runner, of high rises and slums, where the robustly healthy Peter Thiels live so close to the sky they can almost touch it, and the rest, the poor and the weak, live on the dirty streets below. In this future, the obvious dividing factor would be technological enhancements. The underlying factor would be money.
Thiel and much of Silicon Valley have the money to invest in biomedical enhancements, which they have already done, handsomely. They are one step ahead. When the science behind safely transfusing blood—whether synthetic or harvested—and the logistics catch up, they will be first in line to buy the product. The majority of Americans will be many hesitant steps behind.
WELL, maybe ... .. and yes, there are links
http://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/health/news/a47277/peter-thiel-young-blood/
WELL, .. if everyone is doing it ...... ;) it prolly only costs a couple of million ..
ill just sneak this in here .. .right here ....
Oral Sex Is Great Until Science Says It Isn't
http://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/health/news/a50014/oral-sex-linked-to-oral-cancer/
such a shame... wonder if human transfusions would help?
It probably depends on how rich you are.
yeah, I also heard he wants to run for president in 20..NO. Peter.
By Sarah Rense
Aug 3, 2016
Somewhere in a white-walled room in Silicon Valley, Peter Thiel might be getting a blood transfusion from a younger person. Or he wants to be. Or he already has.
On Monday, Inc. published a story about Thiel, the Silicon Valley billionaire, Gawker bankrupter, and recently out Trump supporter, detailing his obsession with living forever—or quite a bit longer than natural. Apparently, Thiel is interested in injecting the blood of younger people into his veins to extend his life, a rejuvenating juice of youthful plasma. In Silicon Valley, where tech investors pursue invincibility as a side project, this isn't shocking stuff. "I suspect we're a little too biased against all these things in society," Thiel told Inc. a year ago. He's not wrong.
Your body and your mind are limited in the things they can do. You might be smart enough to speak 11 languages or craft complex computer programs. You might be strong enough to dead-lift 900 pounds, fast enough to run on an Olympic track. But most likely, you are of average intelligence and average physicality. Would you undergo biomedical technological enhancement to change that, to know more, lift more, or run more than the best in the world?
A majority of U.S. adults would not.
The Pew Research Center recently conducted a survey of 4,700 adults about biomedical processes to enhance the human body. Specifically, "gene editing to give babies a lifetime with much reduced risk of serious disease, implanting brain chips to give people a much improved ability to concentrate and process information and transfusing of synthetic blood to give people much greater speed, strength and stamina." According to Pew, less than half of those surveyed would be "enthusiastic" about these opportunities, and even more would not want blood (63 percent) or brain (66 percent) enhancements. Results were close to evenly split on gene editing for babies.
In general, enhancements that increase people's performance above "natural" levels were met with wariness, like the innate fear associated with technological singularity—technology will improve, and keep improving, until it gets the best of us. By then, it will be too late. If we keep changing our bodies, if we become more tech than flesh and bone, will we get the best of ourselves?
Thiel wants to be better than his best self.
Pew also surveyed participants on the societal implications of these enhancements. A majority of those surveyed, 63 percent, feared that recipients of synthetic blood transfusions would feel superior to those who were not, and almost three-quarters believed that brain chips would only be available to the wealthy at first, resulting in class inequality. These fears have been echoed in movies and television for decades, with directors envisioning dystopian cityscapes, à la Blade Runner, of high rises and slums, where the robustly healthy Peter Thiels live so close to the sky they can almost touch it, and the rest, the poor and the weak, live on the dirty streets below. In this future, the obvious dividing factor would be technological enhancements. The underlying factor would be money.
Thiel and much of Silicon Valley have the money to invest in biomedical enhancements, which they have already done, handsomely. They are one step ahead. When the science behind safely transfusing blood—whether synthetic or harvested—and the logistics catch up, they will be first in line to buy the product. The majority of Americans will be many hesitant steps behind.
WELL, maybe ... .. and yes, there are links
http://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/health/news/a47277/peter-thiel-young-blood/
WELL, .. if everyone is doing it ...... ;) it prolly only costs a couple of million ..
ill just sneak this in here .. .right here ....
Oral Sex Is Great Until Science Says It Isn't
http://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/health/news/a50014/oral-sex-linked-to-oral-cancer/
such a shame... wonder if human transfusions would help?
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