Peter Diamandis Quotes

The squeaky wheel gets replaced.

Of course, in a future where "distributed autonomous organizations (DAOs)" will control fleets of autonomous taxis, there will soon come a point that a DAO's AI will be talking to Daimler's Sarah about that financing, leasing, and insuring. It's an AI-to-AI negotiation, no human required.

To reach flow," explains psychiatrist Ned Hallowell,22 "one must be willing to take risks.

I measure success by one metric: Can we positively impact 1B+ people? Everything else is noise... Prizes, funds, communities, books—they're all just containers for scale.

Research has demonstrated that the structural organization of brain synapses (and the connectome) can be preserved at cryogenic temperatures. 

The future will be fascinating.

Thirty years ago the devices in this collection would have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars; today they come free or as apps on your phone. And smartphones are the fastest-spreading technology in humanity’s history.

No question is a stupid question when you are trying to LEARN.

In the developing world, where sanitation issues cause tremendous death and disease, this will obviously save millions and millions of lives, but in the developed world, three-quarters of our water bill is the cost of hauling away waste and running sewage treatment plants. So the goal is to solve both problems: to find a way for people to go to the bathroom that doesn’t involve running water or sewage, while still rendering human waste completely harmless.

Indoor air pollution is linked to respiratory diseases such as pneumonia, bronchitis, and lung cancer. Women and children who spend long periods every day around traditional open fires inhale the equivalent of two packs of cigarettes a day.

In one of his later volumes, Earth, book XXXV, Pliny tells the story of a goldsmith who brought an unusual dinner plate to the court of Emperor Tiberius.

The plate was a stunner, made from a new metal, very light, shiny, almost as bright as silver. The goldsmith claimed he'd extracted it from plain clay, using a secret technique, the formula known only to himself and the gods. Tiberius, though, was a little concerned. The emperor was one of Rome's great generals, a warmonger who conquered most of what is now Europe and amassed a fortune of gold and silver along the way. He was also a financial expert who knew the value of his treasure would seriously decline if people suddenly had access to a shiny new metal rarer than gold. "Therefore," recounts Pliny, "instead of giving the goldsmith the regard expected, he ordered him to be beheaded."

This shiny new metal was aluminum, and that beheading marked its loss to the world for nearly two millennia. It next reappeared during the early 1800s but was still rare enough to be considered the most valuable metal in the world. Napoléon III himself threw a banquet for the king of Siam where the honored guests were given aluminum utensils, while the others had to make do with gold.

the next time you’re typing in drunken letters into your computer, know that you’re actually helping digitize the world’s libraries.

If we couple AlphaFold's progress to Insilico's GANs and add in the anticipated breakthroughs in quantum computing — another technology being aimed at drug discovery — we're not far from a world where individually customized medicine will move from science fiction to the standard of care. And don't blink, because as radical a shift as this may seem, none of it includes the breakthroughs happening in the adjacent field of longevity.

The demand for AI will never saturate. It goes pretty much to infinity. Just like electricity didn't plateau after lighting homes.. it powered elevators, refrigerators, radios, and eventually everything.

We all share the same biology. A longevity breakthrough in Beijing works in Portland. This is the rare race where everyone, every nation, and every person WINS!

The era of garage biology is upon us. Want to participate? Take a moment to buy yourself a molecular biology lab on eBay. A mere $1,000 will get you a set of precision pipettors for handling liquids and an electrophoresis rig for analyzing DNA. Side trips to sites like BestUse and LabX (two of my favorites) may be required to round out your purchases with graduated cylinders or a PCR thermocycler for amplifying DNA. If you can’t afford a particular gizmo, just wait six months — the supply of used laboratory gear only gets better with time. Links to sought-after reagents and protocols can be found at DNAHack. And, of course, Google is no end of help.