'I had a long thesis on cryptocurrency, and not a lot of real skills for the hard-nosed economy I was about to enter. I spent about a year traveling around the United States, crashing on friends’ couches.' - OlafCarlsonWee
and fellow transhumanist David Pearce about the future of finance, his controversial views on life-extending gene editing, and the end of all suffering.OLAF CARLSON-WEE: I’m in Manhattan. Very excited to be talking.CARLSON-WEE: I was an undergraduate student at Vassar College in upstate New York when I stumbled across your archive. I don’t remember how I found it, but I kept reading all of these incredible essays and I realized that they were part of this massive web of sites.
PEARCE: The haters are a minority. Most people, when they stumble across the idea of getting rid of suffering altogether, think of utopian dreaming. Surprisingly, the most opposition I’ve encountered is about phasing out predators like lions and tigers. I think we’ll need to genetically reprogram them. Some people are absolutely aghast at that idea, but if we are morally serious about getting rid of suffering, we’re going to have to edit our genetic source code. This invites charges of eugenics.
CARLSON-WEE: After I graduated in 2012, I had a long thesis on cryptocurrency, and not a lot of real skills for the hard-nosed economy I was about to enter. I spent about a year traveling around the United States, mostly living out of a backpack with a tent and a sleeping bag, crashing on friends’ couches. I was resistant to jump into a system that I didn’t necessarily want to be a part of.
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