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Another Musk Quote

By: Fiz in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
Mon, 05 Dec 22 3:34 PM | 38 view(s)
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"“If you want reconciliation, there must be truth, so that’s the intention here, to just make it clear what was happening and provide transparency about the past, and in doing so, to build trust in the future,” he added." -Elon Musk, re: Twitter Files

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WRT the previous Musk quote, on old ideas suppressing new ideas, it is a very real phenomenon. Take poetry or math, and you see very clearly that the masterpieces overwhelmingly stem from the young. There can be many rationalizations for this, but to a considerable extent it is physiological and, more specifically, cognitive. It also is self-protective, both ego and otherwise: "For the man whose only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."

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Re: Musk Quote
By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Sun, 04 Dec 22 9:32 PM 		Msg. 37935 of 60008

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Re: “Just reading hte first line and quote would beg to differ about the borad brush statement.”The reason humans live as long as they do - with a cap of about 100 years - is because they are highly intelligent. High intelligence is only an evolutionary advantage if the elders have time to pass along what they've learned to the new generation. After that, the older generation becomes more of a disadvantage, eating up resources and hogging lucrative positions that the young would like.

That 100 year ceiling has existed for a very long time. Charles Carroll (of Carrollton), who signed the Declaration, lived to 95. That was a long time ago. 100 years, clearly, is what nature thinks is natural and best for survival of the species.

I don't think the "old age" we aspire to reach today is what Elon Musk is concerned about. He's saying that if a medical breakthrough made it so that the rich and powerful could suddenly live to TWO hundred, that they would create an enormous obstacle to those younger and poorer than themselves.

Remember how Bill Gates used to block competitors? He did that for 30-some-odd years before deciding to do something more enjoyable with the time remaining to him. If he were going to live another century though, perhaps he'd have stayed where he was. Maybe for another CENTURY.

Of course, before that additional century was up, there'd probably be new medical breakthroughs that would push lifespans still further... maybe to FOUR centuries.

That's the concern.

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