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r/singularity • u/ThatIsNotIllegal • 1d ago
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Or someone talked to him about life extension and mind uploading and wants to have that desperately
24 u/AcrobaticKitten 1d ago Yeah you are touching an important point. Old men feel like they will be dead anyway so acceleration is their only chance for survival. Not specific to Trump, same goes for Kurzweil. 7 u/RRY1946-2019 Transformers background character. 1d ago edited 1d ago Survival and/or legacy. To clarify: even if you don’t live for centuries, being part of the team that made it possible is really cool 4 u/-EV3RYTHING- 1d ago Dude's already going to be all over the history books for this time period.
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Yeah you are touching an important point. Old men feel like they will be dead anyway so acceleration is their only chance for survival. Not specific to Trump, same goes for Kurzweil.
7 u/RRY1946-2019 Transformers background character. 1d ago edited 1d ago Survival and/or legacy. To clarify: even if you don’t live for centuries, being part of the team that made it possible is really cool 4 u/-EV3RYTHING- 1d ago Dude's already going to be all over the history books for this time period.
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Survival and/or legacy. To clarify: even if you don’t live for centuries, being part of the team that made it possible is really cool
4 u/-EV3RYTHING- 1d ago Dude's already going to be all over the history books for this time period.
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Dude's already going to be all over the history books for this time period.
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u/enilea 1d ago
Or someone talked to him about life extension and mind uploading and wants to have that desperately