Dr. Mike Israetel discusses radical longevity and age-reversal biotechnology with host Joe Lonsdale.
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Israetel: AI will reach superintelligence by 2026 and vastly surpass humans by 2029
“Once AI becomes super intelligent, which should occur in like 20, 26 or something like that. If it hasn't already, I'm not kidding. I'm not saying this very soon. Once it's super intelligent and then by 20, 29, it's going to be like orders of magnitude smarter…”
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Israetel: AI alignment will naturally resolve itself at superhuman intelligence levels
“As a system is incremented up in intelligence and gets to human levels, high human levels, and then superhuman levels, alignment almost completely resolves itself.”
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Israetel: Next-generation muscle-building drugs will be significantly safer than steroids
“These drugs are going to be Orders of magnitude safer and fewer side effects than anabolic steroids.”
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Israetel: Uploading human brains into the cloud is inevitable
“And then us uploading our brains into the cloud, living there for every Kurtzweil style, which I'm super down with. I think that's inevitable.”
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Israetel: Cybernetic limb replacements will soon outperform natural biological limbs
“A few years later, People who have lost their arms through amputation, for example, of their legs, their replacement parts will be better than biological parts. Just better.”
Insight
Israetel: Meal timing has a minuscule effect on overall fitness results
“It, it's like quaternary if I had to put it. I mean, it just matters in such nuanced ways that there are like 10 things that matter more. The total effect magnitude of when you space your meals is teeny tiny. A lot of people in the fitness industry like to maj…”