Elon Musk, I believe everyone is already familiar with it, the world's richest man, was named "2021 Person of the Year" by Time magazine, and just a few days ago he was elected a member of the American Academy of Engineering. He founded SpaceX, a space exploration technology company, Tesla, an electric vehicle and energy company, and Neuralink, a "brain-computer interface" company, all of which were hugely successful.
Recently, Musk has made another moth, and he made remarks in the interview that there is no technology to fight aging, and he does not want to live forever, which has caused an uproar in social opinion. Unlike other super-rich people (such as Amazon founder Bezos and Google founder Sergey Brin) who are keen on fighting aging, Musk seems to have become a clear stream. But is that really the case? We can look back at Musk's interviews over the years.
In 2013, Musk said in an interview that traditional anti-aging methods such as diet and exercise are shackles that cannot break the upper limit of lifespan. But he also acknowledged the potential of gene-editing technology and believes the technology will cause a lot of controversy. In 2015, Musk reaffirmed the powerful anti-aging effect of gene editing technology in interviews. In another interview the same year, he said he never wanted to live forever, and that 100 years old would be nice.
In 2020, Musk said: "I think there will be many breakthroughs in free radical research, especially in RNA synthesis." RNA/DNA synthesis can do almost anything, and we may be able to use these techniques to stop aging, or even reverse aging. You can even turn a person into a damn butterfly if you want to.
However, in a recent interview, he said that he was not interested in longevity, believing that people living too long would stifle the creativity of society. It seems that Musk's attitude toward longevity and aging is as fluctuating as a roller coaster, which is indeed a mystery.
So what exactly caused him to be unimpressed about longevity? There are two major reasons for this, one is that he believes that having children is more important than anti-aging, and he said that "the low-level and still rapidly declining birth rate is one of the biggest risks facing our civilization." "Civilization will collapse if you don't make an effort to have children", and he had 6 children in support of his own views.
Another reason is to contradict Amazon founder Bezos, the two have had many festivals before, last year, Musk and Bezos have been on the throne of the world's richest man "you come and go", fighting for hot. Last October, musk mocked Bezos with a silver medal on social media after he took the position of the richest man.
In addition, Musk's "SpaceX" and Bezos's "Blue Origin" also frequently friction in competing for NASA's projects, Bezos's company has sued SpaceX many times, with an average of 16 days of complaints, so when the news of Bezos's investment in anti-aging company Altos was exposed, Musk immediately taunted on social media: "If this doesn't work, he will even have to sue the god of death!" Then in December, Musk began diss anti-aging in interviews.
The mouth of the rich, the ghost of the deceitful. Ma Yun once said: I am not interested in money. There is also a passage circulating on the Internet: Repentance Ali Jack Ma, unknown wife Mei Liu Qiangdong, ordinary family Ma Huateng, Wang Jianlin who has nothing. So will Musk also be inconsistent? We don't know this, after all, even if his increasingly thick hair is "reverse growth" or planted by himself, such an obvious thing, there is no evidence of a real hammer.
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