Tyler Cowen: belief

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…To me, to be maybe a little glib, it’s sort of like not getting a new pet because your old pet died and just being a little fatalistic, like, “I’m not going to bring joy into my life because that joy might end.” I don’t know. If there’s anyone out there who can help me with this, I’d love to live longer than, say, 80 or 90. A lot of Emergent Ventures winners are working on this. My guess is they’ll simply help us live to 100, which is still a great investment. Many of them think aging is a specific thing that can be stopped or reversed or cured, like you can cure a disease. I hope they’re right. We’ve made bets on them. But if you just ask me what I think, I do think there’s an upper limit that is more or less at where the oldest living people live to today, which is about 110 perhaps. Maybe we can get that up to 120. All right. Listener P.K. asks, “How do you invest your own money?”…

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