Ross Douthat

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4,896 appearances 23 recordings 5 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 27 Aug

Ross Douthat’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Interesting Times · Bryan Johnson’s Blueprint for a 150-Year Life: Is It Worth It? · 13 Aug 2026 podcast

By archetype, you mean a positive archetype, right? voice-verified

Like immortality is associated with anyone from Dracula to Dorian Gray, let's say. voice-verified

So you're trying to make yourself an admirable archetype, right? voice-verified

Someone who people look at and say, this is not a bargain with the devil or something where I'm going to have a portrait in my, you know, a portrait in my attic that ages while I voice-verified

I stay young, right? voice-verified

Like this is something that I would want to identify with. voice-verified

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Okay. voice-verified

Tell me about the process then. voice-verified

Like we're we're speaking, I guess it's eleven AM ish Pacific time, right? voice-verified

Uh so in in a typical day, what are you doing to defeat death? voice-verified

Okay. voice-verified

No, no, I just can see them in the mirror and they they clearly they clearly aged more rapidly than the rest of my mouth. voice-verified

I'm just I'm just th this is just a you know a a rough estimate based on trips to the bathroom. voice-verified

Um, you mentioned superintelligence earlier and you've sort of undertaken this project over a period where AI has become the focus of so much hope and fear and sort of interest about measurement and analysis and everything else. voice-verified

How how are you using AI right now? voice-verified

Okay, but just to push on that analogy for a minute, right? voice-verified

Like as you describe your day, it your body is not just taking care of itself while you go about your daily business, right? voice-verified

Your daily business is this project, and you are, you know, a wealthy entrepreneur who can and you're we'll get into this in a minute, you're also making money from this project, right? voice-verified

But like this is your business. voice-verified

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