Sana Khadar

It is a lot of faith.

It's faith.

The thing we haven't really accounted for yet is the biases inherent in a lot of these beliefs.

If they're coming from a predominantly white male Anglo-Saxon culture, a Silicon Valley culture, that's going to omit a few things, a few people.

Yeah, that's a really good point because it did occur to me, my God, the amount of money being funneled in this direction when there's like really real problems in the world right now is shocking.

But then there is also this like overlay of ableism that runs through a lot of this thinking.

Wow.

That is Alex Kratosky, social psychologist, tech and society reporter, and author of The Immortalists, The Death of Death and the Race for Eternal Life.

Thanks to producer Rose Kerr and senior producer James Bullen.

Our sound engineer this week is Tegan Nichols.

I'm Sana Khadar.

Thanks for listening.

I'll catch you next week.

Let's talk crazy.

Let's act crazy.

Let's be crazy because then the enemy doesn't know what you're thinking.

If you've been on social media at all recently, you might have noticed something unsettling.

From big-name celebrities to your friends from high school, people are looking increasingly ageless.

They're smoother, they're a bit more plump, more perfect.

You might have also heard the term Instagram face coined in 2019 to describe the homogenous beauty standards populating our online feeds.