The Transhumanist Companies That Want To Make You A Cyborg

0:00 A lot of us are going to die for Sam Altman and Elon Musk to become cyborgs. Let's go through just a quick history of transhumanism cuz it's it's actually quite fascinating and probably could be a whole live stream about that, but we're just going to kind of CliffsNotes it. We're just going to kind of glance over it, kind of get up to today, and you'll sort of understand as we look at this that the transhumanism has all these offshoots that are into like other forms of thinking. So, it's it's like you know, it's like a like a political ideology and then how there can be like subsects of each one of those ideologies that like fundamentally

0:46 think the same things, but think of like how they're going to get there is different kind of a thing. That's kind of what's happening here with transhumanism, but some of those offshoots had be had gotten so much traction that when we talk about Terasem and all of the different ideologies and how they fit together, even though like four of them all stem or well, three of of them stem off of transhumanism, totally four of the seven, like it's still it's still worth understanding the history and where those splits kind of go. We're not going to go super deep onto that, but we are going to learn about some of that stuff all to get context for all of these companies and the different types of

1:33 things that these companies are doing. And this is not a complete list of companies, by the way. There are more and more coming online every year. But, we're going to go over a quite quite a bit of them. Yeah, kind of, but like I I think a lot of this stuff is being presented as let's say it's like eye enhancements and you say like, "Oh, well, there are people there you know, X amount of billions of people that are blind or millions of people that are blind and we can give them robot eyes and that'll fix it and it's like like and like Mr. Beast will probably do a video about that and people you know, 800 million people will see that and go oh my god, that's really amazing and

2:20 then you know, then they got like these really great eyes and people go like well, actually I want those sick ass robot eyes. You you got to make people want it. They're not going to force it upon us. The this transhumanism stuff most of like a lot of stuff doesn't really get as forced upon us. Like a lot of things are done in a way that makes you say I want that. That's the world that we've been living in for probably the last 40 years. A lot of this stuff like you can't do too much too fast. I think the transhumanism thing has been going on for decades and decades and whether it's um intentional or manufactured or not, it's just a slow slow

3:07 uh burn, but as technology expands, we get excited about technology and then we bring them in. Like you can't give us brain internet or brain AI you know, uh interfaces without having had this for a decade or more. You need something to kind of get you there, you know, to hold your hand, to tiptoe you towards um these different technologies that you'll later ask for and want and pay for because this stuff is expensive. So, let's get into the history of transhumanism because the concepts of it kind of date back to like ancient times really. But but you'll see is like more

3:55 in like the late, you know, 1900s, like the 1970s, '80s, '90s is where like a lot of this stuff really took hold. But in ancient roots, the Epic of Gilgamesh, which was a 2100 BCE, the oldest story ever written, is a quest for immortality. So, these are like like our very first story ever told. Not really, but like the first story ever told in in that we know of in this time of history, you know, 4,000 years ago, um is about the quest for immortality. And that is at at the core, the the the more

4:40 the motivation of the transhumanist movements. Uh alchemists chased the elixir of life for centuries. The impulse is ancient. Transhumanism proper equals using science tech to transcend and starts with enlightenment. So, there's the enlightenment period of the 1600s. Uh Sir Francis Bacon, uh science should prolong life, enlarge the boundaries of the human empire. Uh and uh Condorcet uh speculated medicine could extend lifespan in indefinitely. So, that's going all the way back to the 1600s and scientists trying to again extend life

5:26 um indefinitely, to become uh you know, to to live on. And using, I mean, medicine is science, and science is technology. It all goes hand-in-hand. Fountain of youth, philosopher's stone, yes. You know, like these these types of things. We do know that, you know, the Nazis were really into the occult, but they were also really into mythology. Uh particularly and it it's a whole fascinating story about there was this guy the the very quick version of it there was this guy who was not even German. He actually was half-Jewish um who was searching for the the Holy Grail. And this is a very legit, right? This is in the '30s. And

6:12 this guy uh went on many expeditions and he funded the whole thing, ran out of money, didn't find the Holy Grail, but kept, you know, doing the research and trying to find it and trying to get in. And uh Heinrich Himmler who ran the SS for Adolf Hitler was the key person who was really into the mysticism. And so he had created essentially this um offshoot of the SS that were people looking for things. Uh he he he got that guy to look for the Holy Grail and to look for other like mystical artifacts and things of that nature that are supposed to hold magical powers. And uh he'd actually

6:57 wound up getting this guy to look for the Holy Grail. So the the the Germans this very well documented the Nazis were in search of the Holy Grail um for the same reason that Indiana Jones did for immortality. Yeah, there's the the search for immortality has existed for many thousands of years. And it's not just like fairy tales like stories in some Steven Spielberg movie. That desire, that drive has kind of reared its ugly head into the tech world. We're going to skip forward. So actually before Silicon Valley really started there was Julian Huxley, Aldous

7:42 Huxley's brother. He was a eugenicist, was actually the man who coined the term transhumanist. And then he was a part of like these guys in the '50s and '60s that were some of the earliest philosophers of transhumanism in its more modern context. Okay? In the '60s and '70s, Ettinger was doing cryonics, and was the first They did the first frozen human in 1967. And I in the '80s, Max More is a very central figures because in the '80s and the '90s, that's [sighs and gasps] that's where this really kind of took hold here in California in Silicon

8:28 Valley. He founds the Extropians, which is an offshoot of transhumanism, but he was also the early transhumanist um uh [clears throat] like central figure. But he he had this offshoot called the Extropians, right? The Extropians Institute. They were all Silicon Valley people who were doing like their earliest outreach. So, they had um like their like the Extropians really were just like the outreach for transhumanism in in its more uh modern context, which is around uh like technology, digital technology. Max More actually started a cryo his own cryonics company. Um

9:13 cryonics meaning like freezing a body or even just a head, you know, uh famously uh they say Walt Disney's head is frozen, you know, that's been going around for decades. That's what we're kind of talking about here. There was another person, Ray Kurzweil, who started talking a lot about uh transhumanism, but as it relates to AI, and he is the one that you know, talks about the singularity, which is the moment in which uh AI systems will be able to exceed humans in everything. And then that will create this moment in time where we no longer become the dominant

9:59 force of the Earth. We are no longer the dominant species. We've created something more dominant than us. And where does that leave us? And I've actually read both The Singularity and The Singularity is closer nearer than you think or something like that. Uh whatever that second book was. Singularitarianism, which is an offshoot of uh that that is also in the test grill. That's the S in test grill. So, you've got transhumanism, you got extropianism, uh which is the E. You got uh singularitarianism, and then C, which is uh cosmism. You know, your your PayPal mafia guys and the Silicon Valley guys that we know of like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, Sam

10:46 Altman, and Jeff Bezos, and all of these guys, they're either believers or they their theories and the things that they're working towards, even though they might not say outright I'm a transhumanist, well, they're working towards this transhumanism. And this era of transhumanism focuses a lot more on AI and there are some offshoots where some of those people like um like some of those people want like cyborgs to make us cyborgs, but then some of those people want us to do like mind uploads, um which is uh much different. And so

11:33 like I said before, like these offshoot and then they offshoot and offshoot and offshoot. But as a unified theory, it's all kind of under transhumanism. Does that all make sense? Cuz it's like it is it's it's it's really quite quite a lot. You know, now like uh transhumanism, when I talk about transhumanism, that is not a term that I had come up with, but it is a a unified term for all of these different ideologies, but at the end of the day, there's thread that runs through all of them. Um, and that is the next evolution of humans through the use of technology. And to get there is going to require a lot of

12:18 us to die. And everything else philosophical around that, you know, you could totally pull every one of those threads and it's, you know, a fascinating thing to do. Um, but at the end of the day, are you really interested in dying to maybe or maybe not become a cyborg, which may not be human. And the question is is how much say do you really have in that? You know, people in the chat earlier were talking about how it would be get forced upon us. And I think that we're going to we're going to ask for it. You know, we're we're they're going to try to make it really cool and they're going to have us ask for it because they understand that things stick better when it's like inception, like the idea sticks better

13:04 if you think it comes from you. You know? But [sighs and gasps] who knows? Who knows what's what the real agenda is. I actually, when I think about transhumanism, too, I don't think it's a unified agenda. I think it's calling it like a unified thing it's it's just a way to understand the scope of the like the the actual issue. But uh I don't think these people are really super unified in in what direction. I think the fracturing is the fact that they all think that they're going to be the ones to get it get us there and their way of getting there is the way to get there and everybody else is stupid. Like I

13:50 really think that that's how it actually is amongst all of these people, but they're all working towards the same goal or some version of the same goal and it's all going to require that a lot of us die. A lot of us are going to die for Sam Altman and Elon Musk to become cyborgs. You got to understand that there are companies out there. There's a lot of money moving around. Um a lot of science being done for things that are both really cool. I actually think they're going to be really cool, but also even the cool things and the scary things even the cool things are kind of scary, too, because you never know where those technologies can go. These are and

14:36 again, this is not all of This is not even all the of the companies. These are just like big ones, right? And these aren't even all of the categories. These are the big ones. Um there are so many other subcategories where only one or two companies are working on these things, you know, but this is something to kind of look at to understand to get an understanding of this. Um I think we're going to see a lot of consolidation happen in here over the next decade. So yeah, so there's the brain computer interfaces, so think like Neuralink. That's the one that that everybody knows, but there's many others, okay? There's longevity or age reversal, of which there are a lot here, but again, there are many more out there. Cryonics

15:22 and mind uploading, which actually could be two separate uh categories of their own. Cryonics has actually been around like like we said since the '60s. Um and if you don't know cryonics is Cryonics is the idea that you can freeze uh like cryofreeze like super deep freeze your either your brain or your entire human body um up until a time where science is so advanced that it could cure cure you of some disease or you know your brain is intact and maybe if your brain's intact then it could be uploaded

16:08 into a computer or something, right? Like it who knows. Who knows what drives these people to do it, but those are some examples. Okay, and then mind uploading. That's some real Black Mirror right? Uploading your mind to a computer or uh a robot or something, right? Stuff that like we we're not there yet, but we're we're getting close. And AI is just going to is just going to hasten what we can how like how quickly we can get there. And uh then there's a biohacking and uh movement organizations. Now um I'm all for biohacking. That that's cool, you know, using science to

16:54 uh optimize your body, yourself, but um you know, but these kind of go into some uh some different some different areas. Neuralink puts a chip in your brain so you you can control computers by thought. Musk's stated end goal is merging humans with AI. That's He has Neuralink and he has XAI. Do I need to spell it out for you? Like, he wants to control He or he wants to be the one who creates the infrastructure for it and then control all of the pieces. And these guys, most of these guys are government contract guys, so then,

17:40 you know, these could be all government contracts later on. And uh yeah. And that's Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. Peter Thiel, who squirmed like a little weirdo on his uh interview with uh I think it was the New York Times. You would prefer the human race to endure, right? Uh You're hesitant. I Yes? I don't know. I I would I would um He's a weirdo. So, there's Merge Labs building a brain link that doesn't need surgery. So, Neuralink is like a chip implanted like somewhere near the center of your brain. And this is the Neuralink website, you know. But how are

18:25 they going to sell it, right? They're selling it as like, "Look at this quadriplegic now able to play video games." Like, this this is what they're selling you, they're selling you like, "Oh, here's this system that is going to be able to help like super unfortunate people." And that's really great. And then it's hard to give criticism to that. Because what what do you mean you don't want these these people with these different afflictions who can't live a full life or not, you know, I'm not going to say that they can't live a full life. Of course, anybody can live a full life, but like they're they're limited in different ways and now they can interact and interface with the world in new ways where that they can,

19:10 you know, before, how could you be against that? And it's like fair, you know, that's a that's a that's a fair question. But, what then happens when the richest man in the world as of today, again, um now sells upgrades, brain upgrades, um with the xAI package? I mean, Sam Altman has literally said that you are going to buy consciousness like you would power, like a power meter of consciousness of or of intelligence. future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water and people buy

19:58 it from us um on a meter and use it for whatever they want to use it for. The demand that we see for that seems like it's going to continue to just go like this. This is the world that they are working toward. They're going to commodify your brain. The problem is is you're going to get so used to what it if we get used to it. You'll get so used to it that it'll become a point where like like the internet, like how can you work a job if you don't know how to get on the internet, do social media, or whatever. It's going to be like that. Like where you're going to need to keep up with people by having like the at least this is the world that these guys want. These guys want to give you these brain interfaces. Like how could you work a job if you don't have a brain interface?

20:45 How do you live in society without a brain interface? Like it won't be mandated, but society will pressure you into it. Every person I ever known who's ever gone against social media or the internet or anything, like oh, I don't do that They always get on. Like everybody knows, you know, some boomer boomer aged person who who who couldn't understand Facebook and would never get on Facebook and now they're on Facebook in some cult putting out AI Trump pics and Like those people who don't adopt the technologies early becomes the dupes, becomes the the marks of the later generation of it. And

21:31 so there are people like me who want to avoid that. Again, I think that the the brain chip is is a bridge too far for me. I'm not down to to to no longer be human and I think that's the point where you stop being human. But yeah, that and they want to they want to sell us and that's Merge Labs. Merge Labs, like I said, uh this interface doesn't need uh surgery. It's named after Altman's essay arguing humans and AI will fuse. And I actually have that essay right here and it's actually quite short. So I should read it. It's like it's literally very short. The fact that this was built a whole company around this thing that he probably wrote in like 20 minutes in 2017. I haven't talked a lot about Sam Altman

22:16 in terms of transhumanism. Um but he owns the one of these businesses just like Neuralink, you know? So the merge. A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machine will merge. Or if not, what year humans will get surpassed by rapidly improving AI or genetic genetically enhanced species. So singularity. Most guesses seem to be between 2025 and 2075. Uh people used to call this the singularity. Now it feels uncomfortable and real enough that many seem to avoid naming it at all. Perhaps another reason people stopped using the word singularity is that it implies a single moment in time and now looks like the

23:03 merge is going to be a gradual process and gradual processes are hard to notice. I mean, that's exactly what I was just saying. I actually hadn't even read this yet. But this is this is what I'm talking about like it's the singularity does make it sound like it's a moment, but it's a tiptoe. It's a it's a process. Uh it's a process to getting there. So, I believe the merge has already started and we are a few years in. Our phones control us and tell us what to do when, social media feeds determine how we feel, search engines decide what we think. This is in 2017, by the way. The algorithms that make all this happen are no longer understood by anyone person. They optimize for what their

23:48 creators tell them to optimize for, but in ways that no human could figure out. They are what today seems like sophisticated AI and tomorrow will seem like child's play, which is exactly true. Um I hate Sam Altman, but he's like he is actually very right about all of this stuff. And that's the weird thing about when you're reading stuff like this is like these guys are talking about like real things. They are talking about the truth. It's just how do they see it and what role do they want to play in that truth? They optimize for what their creators tell them to optimize for is when ways that no human can figure out. They are what today Oh, I'm sorry. Uh and they're extremely effective. At least speaking for myself, I have a very

24:33 hard time resisting what the algorithms want me to do. Until I made a real effort to combat it, I found myself getting extremely addicted to the internet. I think everybody here has had some version of that. I mean, hell, if you're on Twitch or Kick, even if you're here just to watch me, which thank you if that's the case. Well, I mean, thank you to all of you for being here and watching. I mean, that's awesome. Um but uh yeah, you're you're probably um eternally online just like me. Um I've actually tried to give up the internet completely and I I I was acting like an addict. I was like hiding checking my Instagram from people.

25:18 Like I would like delete the app off my phone and then like reinstall it like re-get into my account and like look at my Instagram for like 20 minutes like a drug hit and then like uninstall the app. And after like a month of doing that, I was like, all right, I'm I I just got to admit that I just got to admit I'm addicted. But I I also I have I I work as a marketer. I have to be online. It's just like I can't escape it if I want to do the things that I do. If I want to do this Yeah, AA Abs Anonymous. Yeah, exactly. So, we are already in a phase of

26:04 co-evolution. The AIs affect or affect, affect and infect us and then we improve the AI. We build more computing power and run the AI on it and it figures out how to build even better chips. This probably cannot be stopped. This is in 2017, mind you. Well, this was 5 years 4 years? No, five This was 5 years uh before there was any commercial LLM that he put out. This probably cannot be stopped. As we have learned, scientific advancement eventually happens if the laws of physics do not prevent it. [sighs] Again, very true. More imp More important than that,

26:49 unless we destroy ourselves first, superhuman AI is going to happen, genetic advancement is going to happen, and brain-machine interfaces are going to happen. It is a failure of human imagination and human arrogance to assume that we will never build things smarter than ourselves. While true, I don't want a psychopath like Sam Altman dictating where this goes and how this goes and how quickly it goes there because he's not talking about building a utopia. He's just saying, "This is inevitable." He's just building the frameworks of, "This is just inevitable." And at the time, even still to this day, he tries to pretend still,

27:34 but at the time it was all about they were the ethical ones. We know that we're going to [cough and clears throat] They know that we as a species are going to build better technologies, better intelligences, better things of that nature, and those things will probably kill us all, but at least you got me at the helm of it, and I'll make sure that that doesn't happen. That's the story that he has been selling us for as long as 2017, but probably much discussing. The merge can take a lot of forms. We could plug electrodes into our brains. I mean, literally that's what he was talking That's what uh the merge uh company that he started that's named

28:20 after this, you know, manifesto or whatever you want to call it. Uh this is what he wants, okay? But I think a merge is probably our best case scenario. If two different species both want the same thing and only one can have it, in this case to be the dominant species on the planet and beyond, they are going to have conflict. We should all want one team where we're all members care about the well-being of everyone else. They want to And this is this is just my opinion, how it seems to me, is that the only way to Remember I said earlier that we're the dominant species, but we're building

29:06 a new species that will be able to be better than us in every way, and then we will become a subservient species. These transhumanists, they don't want to Let me see how I put it the right way. They don't want to build this thing to make us subservient. They want to build this thing so that we can merge with it. And so that it doesn't become its own species, but we become a hybrid species with it, meaning A- it meaning AI. And that's what he wants. That's what that's what these people want, you know? If you can't beat them, join them, right? If we're going to build AI, and

29:51 AIs might kill us all, we might as well merge ourselves with it, because according to him, it'd be foolish to consider that we wouldn't build a better intelligence. I mean, it's so obvious. We didn't actually have to do any of this. We didn't have to do any of this, right? And we're not even there yet. But we're getting close. Uh we're getting very close. All right. Although the merge has already begun, it's going to get a little or it's going to get a lot weirder. We will be the first species ever to design our own descendants. That's Sam Altman. And this was when Sam Altman was a much better Sam Altman.

30:36 This is when Sam Altman was selling this idea that, like I said earlier that we need somebody in charge of this. We need somebody to make sure that this doesn't that we're in alignment this thing doesn't kill us and I'm that guy. But as all as you can see in all the reporting that's come out about him over the last year uh he is a pathological liar. According to pretty much anybody who was willing to talk about him that has ever worked with him. I think he's a god damn psychopath at this point. But it's like you look at this and and you're like okay like it actually sounds

31:22 rational enough you know considering what it is that he's actually talking about. But it's a really weird time man. Neuralink is Elon Musk's company um and Peter Thiel through the Founders Fund had helped fund it. Merge Labs which was Sam Altman and Open AI ventures so Open AI actually owns the company because again Neuralink XAI Elon Musk and Merge Sam Altman Open AI ventures. Two two companies going after the same thing which is your brain is going to connect to the AI

32:09 and you are going to pay me like a like an like an electric meter for expanded thinking and compute. That's what they're that's what they're doing. Why else would they own a brain inter computer interface and an AI company. Kernel a helmet that records your brain activity building the data layer for reading minds at scale that's Bryan Johnson that that dude that spends like $2 million a year to reverse age. And this Colonel though is just seems like it's more of a data play. Like it's it's not like a user brain user interface. It's like it's recording data. Probably that he could

32:56 sell to like a neural link or emerge labs or something. Right? So it's it's purely more of like a data play but still part of the ecosystem. Black Rock Neurotech, the oldest brain implant still running inside humans. Now majority owned by crypto giant Tether. But an original investor was Peter Thiel. You know again there's more out there but kind of looking you know some names that you guys might know. And the companies that they have. In the longevity age reversal there's Altos Labs trying to reset old cells to a younger state. Biggest biotech launch ever $3 billion. That's Jeff Bezos and the Saudis. The Saudi uh uh

33:42 I think it's a sovereign wealth fund. And the Saudis have quite a few investments in this world as well. Calico, Google's secretive anti-aging labs studying why we age and how to stop it. And so that's obviously Google or Alphabet and that's spearheaded by Larry Page one of the owners. Retro Biosciences wants to add 10 healthy years to life by rejuvenating cells and blood. That's also Salt Sam Altman company. He funded it entirely himself for 180 million. Unity Biotechnology, drugs that kill off worn out zombie cells that build up and age the body.

34:28 And that's a joint venture with uh Jeff Bezos and Peter Thiel. Now you don't really hear a lot about these companies, right? Like, you really like with the all the ones that I've talked about, you know the people involved, but you know the one you mo- most of you ever heard of was Neuralink, and that's just because Elon Musk and part of his role in all of this is he's the one that sells the future. That's That's his like like he is not a scientist. He's extremely autistic. He's obviously very smart, but what he is is a salesman and a market manipulator more than anything. So, you like you know about Neuralink probably because he needed to raise money and for it, and so he went

35:14 out into the world and spoke about it and drummed up hype because that's what he does. That's what Elon Musk actually is. He's prolific at it, but it's not like he's not like the guy like thinking up all these things. He'll be like the guy who like thinks it up and then finds the people to go and do it, which is not a dig on him at all, but you should understand who Elon Musk really is um and why of all these companies here, you've only ever heard of Neuralink, and that's because he's gone out there and promoted it. All of these other guys, they don't talk about this stuff. They'll maybe talk about it in like their inner circles or at certain conferences or or things of that nature.

36:00 Um but they're not out there promoting this stuff. They're not out there actually doing uh like like the the the work. They're They're very like like hush-hush about it. It or so it seems, right? Um so, yeah. So, kind of go through a couple more of these. The Hevolution Foundation, Saudi state fund spending about $1 billion a year on anti-aging science. Loyal, which is Andreessen Horowitz uh Marc Andreessen's company, uh life extension drugs for dogs first, a stepping stone to a human anti-aging medicine. Uploading, there's Alcor, where Peter Thiel is a client. Um it's all member-funded, allegedly. Uh they freeze bodies or just heads after death,

36:46 betting future tech can revive them. Run for years by Max More, the philosopher who defined modern transhumanism. Kurzweil and Thiel are signed up. And sometimes you you kind of wonder what like how much of this was just started by a dude who just like found cryogenic thing and was like, "How can you prove like Okay, thinking of it as a grift. We'll We'll sell a person that when they're dead is when we'll get involved with them, but they got to pay us before they die, of course. And if they don't wake up in this theoretical future where their frozen head can be re- re-exhumed into like a a consciousness or a robot or something.

37:31 If that day doesn't come, well, I still got paid today. If that day does come, well, it doesn't matter because that's so far into the future, I still get paid today. So, like it's it's like you're going to get paid to to to literally throw somebody in a freezer, essentially, for probably longer than the rest of your life, but you're going to get paid for it because all of your clients are like extremely ultra-wealthy people. And then you're just like, "Hey, I'm going to start a religion or a cult that believes that you can freeze yourself." Just thinking of purely as a as a grift cult, oh my god. I love that idea, actually. I actually love it. I wish I thought of it.

38:16 Nectome preserves your brain's wiring in perfect detail, so your mind could be uploaded later. The catch, the procedure kills you. Okay? Sam Altman's on the waitlist for that. Pretty crazy. Like you're you pay, you die, they kill you, they preserve the wiring of your brain so that one day when the technology exists, you can be exhumed and re-brought back to life. Okay? I mean, just would you want that? Would you want to freeze yourself or kill yourself and save your brain tubing? Like all of that, like as if any

39:01 of that is even can you prove to me that we can do that? That you can freeze brain tubing. We don't even know what consciousness is. We don't even know what consciousness is, and yet these dudes all want to get in and and take the gamble? That's weird to me. Blueprint, which is Bryan Johnson's anti-death lifestyle empire, and the don't die movement. So again, this is this is like like a move like movement ideology type stuff that people like buy into, biohacking supplements, that sort of thing. Mini Circle, which is Peter Thiel and Sam Altman, they sell experimental gene

39:46 injections for muscle and long longevity from an island zone outside of US regulation. Because of course they are. If it was so great and so safe and so awesome, why aren't they doing it here? The Singularity University, you know, we talked about singularity, singularitarianism, uh the singularity Ray Kurzweil, so it's Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis, uh Diamandis, I can't remember I and I always misspell or mispronounce his name. Uh a school built on Kurzweil's uh prediction that tech will soon transform what humans are. So, I don't know. These are different companies that are actively working on all of these transhumanist things.

40:31 And pretty soon, I think we're going to see more and more companies that are like going to position themselves as individual enhancements. Whether it like I use like that eye example because I'm just a huge fan of Blade Runner, the original Blade Runner. And I always think about like the guy who like makes the eyes and stuff. But like eyes, hands, legs, like like ears, you know, reconstructed like ears that they'll you know, like like ear canal and things of that nature. And they'll be sold to you as like, you know, it's a it's for the deaf to give them hearing again. Why would you hate that? You wouldn't, right? But then, you know,

41:17 oh, can you tune that thing up? Of course we can. Of course we're going to need to keep coming out with new versions. And 10 years of that, and then people start buying new ear canals that have perfect hearing, but they don't have advanced hearing. Whatever it is. Eyesight, same thing. Right? Well, you know, version four has like a telescopic eye where you can 10x magnification with your eyes. You'll never need glasses again because your eyes are going to have like 80/20 vision. You're going to see through walls. That's how it's going to go. And then people are going to start getting it. And then the costs are going to come down, and then more people are going to get these things. And it's like, at what

42:04 point do you become something that isn't human? Maybe you are more human than human, but maybe you're not. Um for me, I I think that the the the kind of like the body stuff actually makes a lot of sense um over the next 50 years, right? Like it totally makes sense. Uh we're going to have the technology and um we're going to be able to to to do these types of things and these companies are going to do it and these billionaires are going to fund it and it's all going to be there. For me, it's once we start talking about brain interve interfaces, once we start talking about

42:50 mind uploads, uh once we start talking about like uh freezing your brains to be reconstructed later, that sort of stuff is once you start where stepping outside of like our species at that point. Once you take a new species, a new consciousness, a new life or intelligence um or consciousness or whatever you want to call it, you're now merging with that, that's the point in which you stop being human. This is what's going on out there, guys. And you're funding this. Let's take Spotify for example. If you're listening [clears throat] to music on Spotify, uh well, at one point, you were funding

43:36 Jeffrey Epstein. Because Jeffrey Epstein was an early investor who in the early years of Spotify was making money dividends and uh and then obviously had a a great exit that, you know, had multiplied his investment. If you were listening to Spotify back in like 2015 through like '17, like you helped fund Jeffrey Epstein and all the weird that he was doing. By the way, a transhumanist. It's completely taken over Silicon Valley and it's been a part of Silicon Valley in many different ways, in many different forms over the years. And it's what drives a lot of these people.

44:22 And when you look at all of these names that we've been talking about, Elon Musk, and you know, Bezos, and all these people, they don't think about the world in the same way that we do. And you kind of look at them and go like, you don't fit into this world the same way that the rest of us do. In fact, you live on a completely different world than we do, even though you might be here on Earth. I mean, and some of them believe we're going to leave the Earth and, you know, Elon Musk is one of them, that we're going to all become transhumanists who live on Mars, or maybe just the elites live on Mars, or maybe they send all the poors to Mars. But the problem is these people. It's

45:08 not the technologies, it's the people. It's their It's the reason why they want to do it. And like I said, like to them, like everything's kind of infinite, cuz they're all desperately trying to get away from death. Because they all know that if you have everything, your mind can still slip, and it doesn't matter if you have everything, if this ain't working. If this ain't working. And so they want to They want to feel what they feel right now forever. And they know that the future isn't monetary. They know it. This is why Elon Musk for years has been talking about universal basic income. The goals will change. The framework of

45:55 the world we live in will change. And uh and they think that if they're the ones who change it, then they get to be the ones to control it. Because for a lot of these people, they changed things, and then they controlled those things that they change. Amazon didn't exist. Now it does, and Jeff Bezos owns that, and then gets to do all of these other things based on his as he likes to now call them winnings. Elon Musk you know, the same. Sam Altman, the same. Like these people they think because they have built technologies that have radically changed the world

46:41 and given them riches and control beyond their wildest dreams, they think, "Well, certainly there must be something even bigger than that. Well, certainly we should be able to change what even being a human is, and then we'll create the infrastructure, and we will own the rights to humanity, and then we'll be able to control everything." That's a That is a certain type of person, I'll tell you that much. That is a small, small club. That is a small club. So, anyway, that is just a look, just a peep, just a little glimpsy into what's actually working and being built right

47:29 now. You think these businesses and these these scientific endeavors and all of this is just for a couple of people? Billions of dollars of funding? No, you don't put billions of dollars into things unless you want to shape the entire world. No, no, no. This stuff is coming. This stuff is coming piece by piece, inch by inch, step by step.