Maybe that’s (part of) his motivation. Guys like this have the tendency to see life as a pissing contest.
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How on earth did he miss the 20-30 times per month masturbation regimen? So easy!
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I see the bright side: redistribution of wealth.
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Pretty sure he’s taking that prostate cancer study literally.
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Nothing like having a quack stick their finger up your kazoo.
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I think I already know the result of this attempt to convert his millions into immorality.
He’s going to spend decades battling futilely against ageing and no matter how many pills, potions and dubious doctors he buys, the second law of thermodynamics is a relentless inevitability. And he will fade from existence no sooner than any number of poorer but luckier people.
In contrast, the Andrew Carnegie method of turning millions into immorality seems a lot more successful. Rather than producing one very expensive corpse that will be quickly forgotten, he could have lived forever in the only way that works- to be remembered.
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For those who don’t remember:
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Oh yikes, I didn’t realize he was also doing the crackpot mega-supplement thing and taking drugs. Yah, this is so much worse.
Why oh why do these clowns always think they are smarter than the consensus of current medical research.
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They think having billions unlocks that One Weird Trick that can keep them young.
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I think they also think that every problem is a software stack. You just gotta tweak a few things here and there and it’ll be perfect and run for eternity.
I honestly think there’s a general disregard for the field of biology that plays into this. Engineers and computer scientists often (in my experience) look down on it a bit and vastly, vastly underappreciate how complicated and hard it is. Like, deep down, some part of them believes that we haven’t solved biology yet, not because it’s hard, but because we have the wrong people on the job. I actually witnessed a computer science classmate back in school say to a bio student, “you guys should give us all those problems- we could solve them in a weekend”. I don’t think his beliefs are outliers in the field.
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I can vouch that they aren’t.
Back when I was doing my postdoc in Genome Sciences we would get talks to our lab from Google and Microsoft engineers on how they were going to revolutionize our fields. Often with some nonsense application of MapReduce or a neural net looking at the wrong data in the wrong way. After all why even consult someone on how they would use the data if they aren’t smart enough to use it 
And before that during my PhD days you could see similar ideas in a small subset of the compsci/engineering grad students. Then either reality hit, or they quit and moved to a tech company…
Thankfully my departments had always been full of computer scientists and physicists who worked closely with biologists and MDs, and everyone appreciated the complexity of each others jobs. It’s amazing what collaboration based on respect of each others knowledge/skills can do 
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Personally, I blame Cory for a lot of this sort of thing these days. Overclocked is obviously a cautionary tale, but the man writes such a engaging story that people get all excited and this kind of thing happens.
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Heh. Sounds like people who have never had to maintain systems in the long term, and never across a major platform shift.
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You say that, but when you get the “It looks like you’re going to be a videogame boss. Would you like to take all my money?” prompt at Amazon it’s kind of fun. [Prompt not verified.]
That hair color choice looks a bit conventional. Where’s the RGB? Where’s the angular styling?
I mean, this year someone published safer (less habit-forming) fentanyl. And stuff that cleans out coronary plaques. When he gets to 129 years old he’ll have to worry about the immortal jellyfish thing where they go back to polyp stage.
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A lot of my junk DNA is left over from when I was moved off of the PowerPC platform
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Evolution is the accumulation of billions of years of undocumented quick fixes.
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His sleep schedule never changes, and it seems he is in good health. So, why does he need melatonin?
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This one, too:
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