The world’s largest prize: interview with ‪@peterdiamandis‬ and Jamie Justice

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Want a chance to win part of a $101 million prize pot? All you need to do is restore an older person’s function by 10+ years and you could be in with a chance of winning the new XPRIZE Healthspan! I spoke to two of the project leads, Peter H. Diamandis and Jamie Justice, to find out whether we really can move the needle on this, why they made this a prize rather than just handing $101 million to longevity scientists, why more billionaires aren’t doing this, and, most importantly…why one hundred and one million dollars? Thanks to Peter and Jamie, and ‪@xprize‬ for making this video possible! You can find out more about XPRIZE Healthspan at https://www.xprize.org/prizes/healthspan And you can check out the free chapter of my book on the ethics of aging biology at https://ageless.link/ethics Chapters 00:00 Introduction 01:24 Why $101 million? 02:20 What do you need to do to win? 05:27 What kinds of interventions are you expecting? 09:00 What’s the baseline? 11:26 Where did the money come from? 13:28 Why aren’t billionaires more interested in aging? 17:14 Challenging ethical questions 24:26 Why do this as a prize? 28:20 Questions from social media 32:48 Conclusion Credits Cash register sound CC-BY user Benboncan on Freesound https://freesound.org/people/Benbonca... And finally… Follow me on Twitter   / statto   Follow me on Instagram   / andrewjsteele   Like my page on Facebook   / drandrewsteele   Follow me on Mastodon https://mas.to/@statto Read my book, Ageless: The new science of getting older without getting old https://ageless.link/