Two speakers debate whether humans could live to 180, drawing parallels to how we broke the four-minute mile. They discuss systemic failures in healthcare and aging, and what it would take to fundamentally extend human lifespan.
People are listening who might not know.
This is a famous thing you've repeated.
Over and over is that I'm going to live to at least 180. I used to be like, all right, all right, you know, settle down. And then now I'm like, you know what? I'm on like so on the same boat with you that I think now when I think of like 100 years old, I in my head literally think, oh, that's middle age. Like for what I hope that it'll be.
This is what I was hoping would happen. You know, the four minute mile was something that was impossible. Literally, it was written all over. No man will ever run a four minute mile. And then magically, as soon as it was shown that it could be done. Now high school students regularly do it. And in the first year after it was announced, something like a dozen people did it.
Wow.
And so all of a sudden.
Something about consciousness.
Yeah, our consciousness.
Human consciousness. Yeah.
And there is no reason that when you are 90 years old that you need to be in a wheelchair, in a diaper, or not know your own name. There's no reason, there's no excuse for that. That is a failing of our government, it's a failing of our health care system.
