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Rational Optimization /w Elias Schlie — 69 episodes

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Personal diary - July 2025

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Personal Diary - Jun 2025

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Google's new AI makes scientific discoveries: AlphaEvolve (DeepMind) & Implications for Longevity Science

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Personal Diary — May 2025

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Longevity News - May 2025

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Personal Diary - April 2025

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Longevity News - April 2025

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Machine Learning March

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February 2025

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January 2025

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2025

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#59 I was COO of a Longevity Pop-up City - This is what I learned

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#58 We build a Longevity Pop-up City - Zelar.city team interview with Victoria Forest, Laurence Ion, Alexey Strygin, Anatoly Karlin, & Elias Schlie

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#57 Solving Aging with Human Intelligence Enhancement - Anatoly Karlin

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#56 I meditated 100 hours in 10 days - Vipassana Meditation Retreat Experience report

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#55 CEO of DoNotAge.org (Alan Graves) - Longevity Supplements and Tests

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#54 Longevity interview with Prof. Hans Meij

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#53 Doctor's view on Radical Life Extension - Rafid Fadul, MD (Cenegenics)

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#52 How he made a Longevity Documentary - Charles Mattocks

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#51 Andrea Maier - Longevity advocate, speaker, and researcher

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#50 Building AGI to solve aging - Kennedy Schaal & Rejuve.bio - SingularityNet - AI for drug and target discovery

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#49 This health app pays you for your data - Jasmine Smith, CEO of Rejuve.ai - SingularityNet - Crypto RJF Token - personal data NFTs

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#48 Investing in Fighting Aging and a longevity Community - Nathan Cheng; Founder of the Longevity Biotech Fellowship & Vitalism; Working at Healthspan capital VC

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#47 He built THE Longevity Community - Adam Gries - Founder of Vitalism - Network States - Vitalist Bay - Zelar City - Pop-up cities

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#46 Longevity-health optimization for Women - Judith Mueller

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#45 Building a Longevity City - Victoria Forest on Zelar City Berlin - Pop-up city - Network state/nation - Zuzalu, VitaDao, Vitalia - Aging research

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#44 A Crypto currency that funds Longevity research - Laurence Ion - VitaDao, Pop-up Cities, Zuzalu, Vitalia, Zelar City, Network state

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#43 The 3 Bottlenecks in Longevity Medicine - Alexey Strygin - Longevity pop up villages; Longevity Economics Think Tanks; Zelar City; Zuzalu; How to start working in Longevity-Biotech

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Why I want to work in longevity

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#42 - 4 months of David Deutsch in 3 hours - Mark Kagach

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#41 The story of becoming a Monk ---- Jeroen Kappen, Krishna consciousness, Bhakti-yoga

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#40 How do philosophers explain the Mind? (Dualism and Idealism)

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#39 Monk tells about his Life and Beliefs - Krishna consciousness - Jeroen Kappen

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#38 The Philosophical argument for why nothing matters

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#37 Drug dealer tells the story of how he got arrested

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#35 The most beautiful reason to believe in god - Toni Venema

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#34 He went to America without money or contacts

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#33 The rational search for meaning is a dead end - Eelco Roovers -- Ayurveda practitioner, ballet dancer, Biologist; Martin Buber "I and Thou/It"

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#32 German volunteer tells his story of helping in Ukraine - Bjarne Dietrich -- Paramedic; Bringing food and medical supplies to Ukrainian civilians in Donbas region; Russian war

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#31 The argument for why nothing is bad (or good) - Udesh Habaraduwa -- Nihilism; Good and Bad vs. Right and Wrong; Can we ever know anything; Knowledge; Artificial Intelligence

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#30 Should you really enjoy every moment? - Cesare Dalbagno -- Leadership, Enjoying, how to be a leader, empower people, give agency, good and bad

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#29 You understand nothing! (Argument) - Andrei Lixandru

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#28 AI master student on building an AI Oracle - Andrei Lixandru

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#27 Prioritizing and Scheduling to improve Productivity - Mark Kagach

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#26 Sam Altman on "How to be Successful?" (13 steps)

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#25 Reaching the Impossible in 4 steps (Steven Kotler)

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#24 What happens if you REALLY don't believe in Free Will? - Nikhil Yadav

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#23 He's selling Psychedelics on the Internet - Wouter Smeets (Founder of Mintrospect)

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# 21 God vs. Evolution - Ansar Bajwa

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#20 Meditating 10 days Non-Stop - Vipassana Meditation Retreat

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#19 The rational Meaning of Life - Mark Kagach

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#17 The danger of allowing targeted Ads - Rosalie Priol

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#16 How Max Mariotti discovered his passion of DJing - Max Wander

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#15 How to judge psychological research?

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#14 Introduction to Research Methodology - How psychologists gain knowledge

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#13 Adding Emotions to Artificial Intelligence? - Guido Morera

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#12 The rational argument for meaningless goals - Mihnea Angheluta

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#11 Writing a Book, Meditation and Science - Ross Howard

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#10 Feminism, Artificial intelligence and life goals - Liwia Tarkowska

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What is Rational Optimization?

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#9 How to occupy a school - Cesare Dalbagno

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#8 Francesco "Fuma" Fumagalli - How personality influences your Purpose

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#7 Andrei Lixandru - What does "Searching for Meaning" mean?

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#6 - My 5000km bicycle tour. - Why humans are good!

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#5 Giulio Tosato - "You are an Evoluted Monkey"

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#4 - Udesh Habaraduwa - Where does knowledge come from? Does predicting something means that you understand it?

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#3 How to do Hard things?

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#2 What are the most rational goals one can have?

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#1 What is Rational Optimization?