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Immortality Rebellion, a radical life extension group, began its latest protest today.

Through direct action at sugar factories, biotech regulators, and VC firms they raised awareness of senescence as the #1 cause of preventable death. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senescence
- This is a joke, though this group should exist
- The obvious flag is the infinity flag
- Aging can indeed be treated as a disease
- See @LauraDeming and longevity.vc for some of the latest science
Universal health care is not enough. We need eternal life.
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Balaji S. Srinivasan
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Let's make this fun. $1000 BTC bounty to first person who can get @anandwrites to admit that:

- The word "secession" was never said in the talk
- He did not attend the talk
- And he did not interview me

If this works, may be a way to crowdfund retractions from NYT.
@AnandWrites For raw material:

1) Original:
2) Mostly accurate 3rd party transcript: genius.com/Balaji-sriniva…
3) Giridharadas article: archive.is/ota1V

To claim bounty, you need to be first person to force admission that the word "secession" was never said.
@AnandWrites If Anand won't admit it, but NYT will, that's another way to win.

Email them at nytnews@nytimes.com

$1000 in Bitcoin if you get them to print a correction acknowledging the word "secession" was never said.

Bonus $1000 if you get them to admit "guns" was never said either!
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Balaji S. Srinivasan
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So many founders, VCs, execs watching this #Zuckerberg hearing with the same thoughts.

- So much grandstanding & scapegoating!
- So much hysteria about minutiae
- Demands are contradictory
- Impossible to satisfy these people
- But they have guns…
- This is the US government…
Similar thoughts from Reason's @robbysoave.
@robbysoave Here's one (duly elected!) Congressman asking Mark why Facebook is filtering information on vaccines:
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Balaji S. Srinivasan
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Should innovation be restricted at gunpoint, or not?
You can ban some of the innovation in some of the places, but you cannot ban all of the innovation in all of the places.
There are some folks who want the US to be like Oracle: squeezing legacy companies locked into its platform even as its market share and relevance decline.
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