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

Let's let's take a couple more sort of speculative points and then and and then end. voice-verified

So among AI people voice-verified

uh, who I talk to. voice-verified

There are people who are into the idea that AI is going to cure disease and lead to radical life extension. voice-verified

And then there's a lot of people who are committed to the idea that the point is to get the mind to escape. voice-verified

the body. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

And these are different varieties of transhumanism, I guess. voice-verified

But um the idea of the singularity that people talk about starts in a way with the idea that eventually we're going to merge mind with machine and escape embodiment. voice-verified

I'm curious if that appeals to you as someone whose quest for long life is very, very embodied, right? voice-verified

Like you're you're in, you know, whatever someone might say in criticism of you, they can't say that your head's are in your head is in the clouds, right? voice-verified

You're in your body. voice-verified

You're thinking about your body. voice-verified

What do you make about the aspiration to have immortality without the voice-verified

other objectives. voice-verified

Somebody once said, greater love hath no man than that he lay down his life for his friends. voice-verified

I feel like there's a big part of human existence on this planet that is not devoted to optimizing power, wealth and money, but is devoted to sacrifice for others. voice-verified

And historically voice-verified

The central part of that sacrifice has been a willingness to not always die, but take risks of death so that others might live. voice-verified

And we do that, you know, even in our coseted upper middle class existence or my coseted upper middle class existence, we do that we do that all the time, right? voice-verified

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