Jamie Loftus

It's possible that Nauru, whatever is telling whatever government officials telling the truth, they were never considering selling the island.

But it's also possible that Gabe at all believed they could buy the island.

Right.

Right.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Now, there were discussions between these FTX guys about using Naru as a base for human genetic experimentation.

You get the feeling that their goal was to create modified post-human godlike bodies for their fellow effective altruists so that they could live forever and dominate mankind after the collapse as undying immortals?

Absolutely.

Yeah.

It sounds like a mix between that one video game with the big robot dinosaurs and...

Those sci-fi books by that guy who wound up being real anti-Muslim.

But, yeah.

Oh.

Oh, it's, I think, Ilium and Olympos.

Okay.

I forget the name of the author.

But the premise of the book is that, like, in the future, a bunch of rich guys turn themselves into gods and decide to, like, recreate the Trojan War with themselves as the Greek gods.

And they, like...

resurrect a bunch of dead archaeologists to make sure that they get the details right.

It's fun.