Aleks Krotoski

the Kool-Aid.

This is not for me.

And I entirely dismissed it as a fringe thing.

And I thought, oh my God, well, they're just giddy with the possibilities of the internet, right?

We all were at that point.

2003, everything was going to change.

And I was like, y'all have done too many psychedelics.

You read too much science fiction and you've just bought into it.

And so I looked away.

And I looked away for almost two decades.

And when I came back and was like, okay, I'm going to pursue this story of immortality thinking that it was going to be about, you know, like designer drugs and thinking it was going to be about different protocols that you're supposed to use, etc.

Wow.

Everybody came out and was like, transhumanism.

And I was like, no, what?

Singularity?

Wait, hold on a minute.

You got what?

And to be fair, there is a scientific arm of the pursuit of longevity on one side who seek to differentiate themselves from the transhumanists.

But up until, I would say...

Maybe a decade ago, everybody was all swimming in the same pool.