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Sinclair: Slowing US Aging by One Year Saves $86 Trillion
“They calculated that the US alone, just by slowing down aging by one year, and making people productive, more productive for one year, would save over the next three decades, 86 trillion dollars, which we waste now on just keeping people alive in a sick state …”
Sinclair: NIH study found daily feeding windows extended mouse lifespans by 30%
“And there's a very famous study That was done by a colleague of mine, Rafael de Cabo at the NIH in Bethesda, and he made three different types of diets for mice. One that had a lot of protein, the other had carbs, the other had fat, and he thought he would fin…”
Sinclair: Intermittent Fasting Likely Extends Brain Health by a Decade
“And I think what's also likely is that my brain activity and health will be maintained for a decade or more longer by adopting this kind of diet.”
Sinclair: Recommended longevity habits add 14 to 15 years of life
“Just by doing the things that I'm talking about today, you'll get an extra 14, 15 years on average.”
Sinclair: At Age 52, Blood Biochemistry Matches a 20-Year-Old
“My blood biochemistry is equivalent to a twenty-year-old. I'm a 52.”
Sinclair: NMN Supplementation Has Prevented Jet Lag for a Decade
“I haven't had jet lag for a decade because I've been able to modulate my own body clock by using these chemicals, which as I mentioned are activating sirtuins and controlling the clock.”
Sinclair: One Gram of Daily NMN Raises Blood NAD Levels
“And I know from clinical trials that I've been involved with that taking a gram of NMN, which I do every day, raises NAD levels in whole blood, in the cells in the blood, probably in the rest of my body as well.”
Sinclair: Diabetics on Metformin Outlive Healthy Non-Diabetics
“By looking at type two diabetics, and there's a stunning, stunning fact, that type two diabetics that would normally have a short lifespan, when they take metformin, typically at two grams a day, I'm on one gram a day, by the way, they actually have less disea…”
Sinclair: Continuous Biometric Monitoring Will Extend Human Lifespan by a Decade
“Eventually, everyone will have them. We'll know ahead of time if we have cancer, if we have heart disease, if we're going to have a heart attack next week, and stave off those things and prevent them from happening, and that is a revolution, separate from what…”
Sinclair: Hip fracture mortality in elderly matches late-stage cancer
“The chances of dying after you break your hip as an older person is about as bad as late stage cancer.”
Sinclair: 80% of human longevity is lifestyle, only 20% is genetics
“80% of our longevity
And our health in the future is in our own hands.
Only 20% is genetic, which we cannot yet do much about.”
Sinclair: Combining exercise and NMN doubled running endurance in mice
“In the animal studies in my lab, when we gave NMN, this molecule that I take every day, to a mouse that was sedentary, didn't have a wheel, didn't run, it could run further, ok?
And we actually have human data that's looking really promising in that direction …”
Sinclair: Global Population Will Cap at 10 Billion Despite Longer Lifespans
“Even with slowing down aging and making us live to a 120, we're not going to overpopulate. We're going to level out at about ten billion people.”
Sinclair: Centenarians running companies will add trillions to the US economy
“That's a massive change that we will see probably in our lifetimes of people being, you know, centenarians and still running companies. That will come back in trillions of dollars in benefits to the economy and just the US economy alone.”
Sinclair: Cellular Reprogramming Could Add One Year of Life Per Year
“If the age reprogramming work that Altos is doing and I'm doing works, you could get an extra year of life every birthday.”
Srinivasan: Woke ideology cannot win in pseudonymous crypto environments
“That army of wokeness, that ideology can win on like, you know, centralized social media platforms, English internet. But once you start going pseudonymous, once you start having cryptocurrency involved, once you start Going international and having people abr…”
Robotic construction will hyper-deflate building costs and assemble prefabs rapidly
“In the not infinitely distant future you will have the ability to just hit enter on a computer and have a bunch of robots snap together a prefab building. With perfect speed in the rain, you know, in eight hours, perfect site, all of that stuff, right? Some of…”
Robotics will make physical goods cheap, shifting status-seeking entirely digital
“With robots, the physical world should get super cheap. Eventually. And then all status seeking goes to the optional digital world.”
Balaji Srinivasan: Web3 services rivaling US tech giants will emerge in India
“I think you're going to see a whole parallel set of services arise that are the peers of the American tech companies, but in web three in India over the next 10 years, I think it's going to be one of the least anticipated things that's going to happen”
Balaji Srinivasan: Trump de-platforming leads to national stacks and neutral protocols
“So what happens is that the platform of Trump has set off a cascade of things that will lead to National stacks and neutral protocols.”
Balaji Srinivasan: India will become a tech and media superpower
“This is why I think if China becomes, has become a tech and manufacturing superpower, I think India becomes a tech and media superpower.”
Huberman: 15 seconds of bright nighttime light drops melatonin to zero
“Light viewed by the eyes inhibits melatonin, so much so that if melatonin levels are at their peak and you walk into the bathroom at night and you flip on the lights and it's really bright, if you spend more than 10 or 15 seconds in that light, your melatonin …”
Huberman: Cardiovascular exercise increases hippocampal neurons in mice, not humans
“There's some mouse data or studies published on, on mice showing that exercise, cardiovascular exercise can increase the number of neurons in the hippocampus. Turns out that's true for mice, but not for humans.”
Huberman: PNAS Study Shows Hyperventilation Prevents E. Coli Symptoms
“There's a beautiful study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that shows that when people do this kind of breathing prior to an injection of E. Coli, something I don't recommend people do, they are actually able to remain symptom f…”
McChrystal: The US Government Possessed All Information Necessary to Stop 9/11
“And I think of the nine 11 attacks where we had all the information necessary to stop the World Trade Towers being hit. Inside the U S government, but we couldn't connect the dots”
McChrystal: Robert E. Lee Killed More US Soldiers Than Any Commander
“No commander in history has killed more American soldiers, United States soldiers, than Robert E. Lee.”
McChrystal: The Next War May Be Won Before People Realize It Began
“And in fact, the next war may well be won or lost before people actually realize it's on. Maybe so fast that that's occurred.”
McChrystal: Future warfare will feature countless uncoordinated adversaries
“We can have countless opponents, and they don't all have to be coordinated. They just have to share a general common intent to do us harm, which makes them more difficult because you have to defeat each one, not, you can't defeat them as a network, and that's …”
Walker: Sleep Loss Doubles Risk for Specific Cancers, Not All Cancers
“A lack of sleep can double your risk for Certain forms of cancer, and then name those cancers, and those, for example those cancers would be thyroid cancer, lung cancer, ovarian cancer myeloma, which is a form of a blood cancer linked to, it's in the ilk of so…”
Jane McGonigal: Gaming over 21 hours weekly negatively impacts mental health
“21 hours a week is, like, the tipping point where we do start to see it can get in the way of physical health or mental health.”
Jane McGonigal: Kids retain study material better by gaming before studying
“If you want kids to retain what they study better, you should have them play video games first, and then do their homework, and then study before they go to sleep, because if you study first, and then as your reward, you get to play games, When you go to sleep…”
Rushkoff: Deepfakes will force public to rely on trusted journalists and publications
“The thing that's going to happen, I guess, is as deep fakes and other, other kinds of media come out that make it really impossible to distinguish between what is being said and what is not. We're going to, again, just as we did before any video existed, We're…”
Isaacson: Commercialized gene enhancements will encode societal inequalities into human biology
“What about allowing rich people to buy better memory for their kids, but since this technology is not going to be free, it'll encode the inequalities of our society into our species.”
Isaacson: Feng Zhang Beat Doudna's Team by Two Weeks to Human CRISPR Patents
“And after Jennifer and Emmanuel discover how CRISPR can be engineered to be a tool to cut DNA, a race ensues to say who can make it work and show how it works in human cells first.
And it takes them both six months along with some other labs.
It's a race that …”
Conant: Most companies no longer report quarterly earnings
“Most people aren't reporting quarterly earnings. They're doing annual, they provide guidance, but they're looking more long-term in nature, which is appropriate.”
Immelt: GE suffered in 2008 from aggregate size, not toxic assets
“Think about the financial crisis, what did we get wrong? We were too big in aggregate size. It wasn't that we were, we had a lot of toxic assets. It wasn't that we're redlining risk and things like that. We were too big.”
Immelt: Next-generation leaders must maintain manufacturing jobs where they sell
“If I sell in the US, I better have a certain amount of jobs in the US. If I sell in Germany, same thing. If I sell in China, same thing. And my generation didn't have to think that way, but the next generation is going to have to think that way.”
Hertz: Loneliness Directly Drives the Rise of Political Populism
“Loneliness and populism that my research has kind of made really clear. Populism, whether on the right or on the left, in increasing numbers, people are seeking, feeling lonely, feeling marginalized, feeling disconnected from each other, but also from the gove…”
Hertz: UK shopping malls deploy high-frequency sound devices to repel youth
“There's even cases in shopping malls in the United Kingdom, where in order to keep out undesirable youths they emit a very high sonic pitch sound, which only young people can hear a very unpleasant sound.”
Encouraging managers to seek feedback fails to create lasting psychological safety
“We found that when we went and encouraged managers to go and ask for feedback, it didn't have a lasting effect on psychological safety.”
One session of manager self-criticism boosts team psychological safety for a year
“When we randomly assign managers to kind of criticize themselves as opposed to asking for criticism, just inviting them to do that once increased psychological safety in their teams for at least a year.”
Dr. Z: Humans will travel to Mars within his lifetime
“I think we will go to Mars with humans in my lifetime, for sure.”
Zurbuchen: Space and asteroid mining will happen within our lifetime
“No, I think this is our lifetime kind of issue, the mining calling.”
Ridley: The first half of the 21st century will center around biotechnology
“By the way, the message of my argument that we had transport innovations in the 20th century, and then in the first half of the 20th century, and communications innovations in the second half, is that the first half of the 21st century may not be all about com…”
McGonigal: 21 Hours Weekly Is the Threshold Where Gaming Harms Health
“By the way, 21 hours a week is like the tipping point where we do start to see it can get in the way of physical health or mental health.”
McGonigal: Humans will broadcast subconscious thoughts and feelings within 10 years
“I think it's fair to say in like 10 years, we're all going to be broadcasting subconscious or like pre-conscious thoughts and feelings in ways that we can't do it today.”