Aleks Krotoski

I've had people from, you know, different contexts and cultures come up to me and say, this is not part of my life.

This is very much a Judeo-Christian, like, phenomenon, right?

People in the Hindu religion.

For example, I get a lot of people commenting about the fact that they're like, this doesn't work for us.

You know, we want to.

We want to advance and we want to reincarnate.

So, you know, that requires that we die.

And, you know, and I have all of the respect in the world for that.

And I think that that was something that came out of this is that for this cluster of very wealthy Judeo-Christian white folks who predominantly live in the beautiful cities

you know, Silicon Valley or thereabouts, they're perfectly happy and wouldn't it be nice if they did live forever?

And some of the researchers that I spoke with actually said that for them, it's also the kind of the next problem to solve given that they are so solution-oriented people

The objective is not necessarily to imagine what happens next.

It's purely to solve the problem.

And what they've done already is they've solved problems of politics.

They've solved problems of economics.

They've solved problems of psychology.

All of the human sciences, whether those solutions are good for us or not, is up to, I think, where you are on the money-earning side of that.

But they see this as the next big problem to solve.

They're like, well, we did it all and we're in space.

So what next?