Artificial Intelligence, Cryogenics, & Procrastination with Wait But Why’s Tim Urban

Artificial Intelligence, Cryogenics, & Procrastination with Wait But Why’s Tim Urban

Author: Matt Bodnar November 7, 2023 Duration: 53:10
In this episode we discuss what Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking all consider the single greatest threat to humanity, why “death” is not binary event that makes you transition from being alive or dead at a specific moment in time, we ask if you would spend $1000 on a chance to live forever, we look at the biology behind cryogenics, vitfrication, and putting your body on biological pause, and we explore why poverty, climate change, war, and all our problems melt away in the face of one massively important issue with our guest Tim Urban.

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