Space Travel, AI, and Immortality — Peter Diamandis | Frameshifts Ep. 7
What happens when the man who launched commercial spaceflight decides humanity needs to stop aging? Peter Diamandis is building the infrastructure to tackle aging. He founded the XPRIZE Foundation, created Singularity University with Larry Page and Ray Kurzweil, and wrote the playbook on exponential thinking with Abundance and Bold. However, somewhere between flying Stephen Hawking into zero gravity and recruiting Elon Musk to his board, he realized something: if we're building an unlimited future, we need to be around to see it. We talk about why Peter walked away from space (his first love) to focus on longevity. He shares his story on how he raised $101 million for the XPRIZE Healthspan—the largest incentive prize he's ever launched—and why 730 teams are now racing to reverse functional aging by 2030. Peter also talks about what it means to restore cognition, immune function, and muscle capacity to what you had 20 years ago, measurably and reproducibly. We also get into the economics of abundance where Peter states that artificial intelligence, the most powerful technology in human history, is becoming free for 8 billion people. Intelligence as a service is demonetizing at 79% per year. Ultimately, are we heading toward Star Trek (exploring the universe with godlike capabilities) or WALL-E (sitting back while robots feed us grapes)?