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Forget Musk, Real genius is Martine Rothblatt
Transhumanist, human rights activist, author, inventor, lawyer, bioethicist, space pioneer... all the things musky spends money to pretend to be. I wonder why she isn't more famous.
DrZaiusMinisterofScienceandChiefDefenderoftheFaith
She started a company to identify treatments called United Therapeutics.
jennasnster
Because she's smart.
bobthefunny
wiki - "Rothblatt is an airplane and helicopter pilot with night-vision goggle (NVG) certification."
bobthefunny
The more you read, the crazier it gets.
combatwombat0
You weren't kidding
ShrokNil
People who actually help are rarely famous as fame isn't something anyone good wants so they don't spend effort on what makes them known.
iancarry
thanks for the name in title.. cuz that pic is useless!! ... imma google her
BootsDusty
Martine Rothblatt -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martine_Rothblatt
BootsDusty
Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D. | Academy of Achievement
https://achievement.org/achiever/martine-rothblatt-ph-d/
TheobromineAddict
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martine_Rothblatt?wprov=sfla1
FelonyRaptor
Sounds like a person who just doesn't procrastinate and does things. Good for her.
kattpappan
I dont know why :/
DrasticBastard
sapphic - relating to lesbians or lesbianism. I did not get that from context clues.
lostwalllet
She is amazing. Heard her and her wife on Howard stem many years ago.
Copperbrat
She's absolutely brilliant, but the transhumanists I've met tend to be insufferable.
schmoo38
Her company is also working on xenotransplantations like the pig heart that was put in that man last month.
DeucesMongooses
JFC
Rebullo
They did that? They sound scummy af but at least they are loyal to their immediate family, like everyone else pretty much but with money
celestedrake
Amazing.
jherazob
Relevant video: https://youtu.be/4b33NTAuF5E
Deggies
"YOU KNOW WHY!" -- is it because you guys don't watch Ted Talks?
TakenToaster
Wow! Fucking wow! Watching it now. Also just reminded me of the world I want to live in.
Lastluke
Seems more like a copy of your mind when people talk about 'Uploading your consciousness"
ThatOtherGirlYouKnow
You are always a copy of a previous version of you. Cells replenish. Memories shuffle and recode in your brain. You're not the you you were.
ThatOtherGirlYouKnow
(which if you think about it is quite a freeing thought)
Lastluke
That's true, but the digital mind thing seems more akin to a clone situation.
ThatOtherGirlYouKnow
Well, Ship of Theseus and all that... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
DrunkBobRoss
I had no idea. I love this place.
suckstoyourauntie
Me, too. I learn about new things and go check them out on the internet. A little bit of learning, cats and dogs, memes, RHM, THT, dickbutt.
gljames24
By THT, do you mean Thighs or Weed?
suckstoyourauntie
I was referring to Thigh-High Thursday, but weed posts are good too. :)
DrunkBobRoss
Wouldn't that be THC?
kevinallover
Here's the Ted talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/martine_rothblatt_my_daughter_my_wife_our_robot_and_the_quest_for_immortality
stxae9ud9x101
That was truly brilliant. Thanks for sharing.
Nick3571
There was also a radio lab podcast.
nietzchebomb
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Kokoryta
To read about the awesome woman who is better than Musk
INeedMoreGifMeMoreJustOneMore
Is this a TED talk or a TEDx talk?
ThatOtherGirlYouKnow
Marick2Die
ZorkManZeroX
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reichstein
The whole "mind clone" thing reminds me of the game Soma.
Hungrypiemonger
transcendence the movie and replicas the movie deal with this
evildadunit
Rothblatt
mangohuckleberry
She didn't invent the medication. She just licensed it from the company that did and brought it to market.
lighterletter
That's still a lot of money and work
TwoCheese
Ya it sure is. But the original sentiment is disingenuous.
AlmostClever
Kinda sounds like the plot of Lorenzo's Oil tbh...
somnif
Not exactly. Lorenzo's parents actually worked to develop that drug. Dr. Rothblatt basically licensed an existing, but unapproved, drug.
somnif
Specifically founded a Biotech company (being obscenely rich has it's benefits) and a herd of lawyers to fast track the FDA paperwork.
AnotherFailedAttemptAtHumor
Martine Rothblatt. Kinda funny how this post that mocked her not being mentioned, didn't bother mentioning her.
starkiller34
How does such a trash comment have upvotes. TITLE.
DonKeydic
You know why
CourtsCrystal
I had the same thought
totolapse
Deliberate, eh?
DeucesMongooses
…..it’s in the title
IAmNotAShoe
Who reads the title?
AnotherFailedAttemptAtHumor
Sorry for being unclear. I meant the real original post. The text of the screencap that's posted here.
vwyx
It's Tumblr, so it was probably in the tags.
wintermute93
Not to mention the direct link to the video
DeucesMongooses
Gotcha. My b
discotheque42
Good for her, but Sirius' business model is more predatory and greedy than Direct TV. Sirius can get fucked.
JockoV
Whoah are you being sirius?
cyno01
Gotta page past their fucking commercials to get to bluetooth audio every damn time.
Jaymezians
My car came with a free trial of Sirius. I called and cancelled it.
quitepossiblygettingold
Got the free “every station” preview. Cancelled it. Before last day disconnected the antenna for Sirius/XM. 1/2
quitepossiblygettingold
2/2 waited 1 year; reconnected antenna. Still get every station. They only send the kill command for a limited time to lock the radio.
quitepossiblygettingold
3/2 (I know). This only works on older less smart radios that don’t request status updates. Has worked for 10 years this way. Car is 2007
ThronesWoven
dude you're hardcore. when the car dies, you'll be canibalizing the car to get the radio unit to run on 12vdc lol
BastofBelial
For real! They tried to raise the price, so I called to cancel. The lady was so cool that answered. Told me she hated how they did (1)
BastofBelial
That and gave me a huge discount instead.
IxnayOnTheOttenRay
SiriusXM is a billing scam with a little entertainment thrown in for free
ThatOtherGirlYouKnow
Agreed. IIRC, she sold her stake early and moved on to found biotech firms with utopian goals.
AbiQuinn
that makes sense, it's common to use predatory money grabs as a necessary evil to fund better ventures. Essentially why mobile games exist.
ThatOtherGirlYouKnow
Her plan was to bring decent reception to areas with none, and eventually expand that to satellite comms.
putcleverusernamehere
Siriusly
nakedasajaybird
Good one, James!
3nd3rwiggin
Somebody had to go there.
putcleverusernamehere
It was a floater over the plate, what was I supposed to do?
mrflappycheez
imakebuns
I tried to cancel once.. it was difficult
Kaetohma
I used to be in that department. We dont like it either.
TheDickWhisperer
They have to do 3 rebuttals, per SOP, and they get marked down heavily if they don’t.
LessThanCrazyMaskSalesman
My dad hasn't paid for it in 10 years. Just calls to get it cancelled, they offer him a couple free weeks-month then just does it again.
LessThanCrazyMaskSalesman
He's literally on a first name basis with one of them.
cardinal29
Strategy I'm trying for the next year's renewal: Visa gift card with exact balance on it. Fuck them when they try to charge another year
BearsDontCare
I simply never paid them, and they sent a couple of letters but I ignored em.
aFadingMemory
Yea they'll even leave it on for several months before they turn it off and wipe the account. Then send you a new introductory offer.
fakebecauseidontwantpeopletoknow
Chase gave them another one of my credit cards when I let the one I was using expire
OrangeFlavours
You can't just... go to the library and read some books and start developing a drug. That's missing a LOT of steps, drugs are not simple.
NeverConfusedForNaught
Technically, everything about it is in the books and papers. That's the ever grow basis of our knowledge. You just have to read all of them.
OrangeFlavours
And I don't mean making meth in your backyard, getting proper, legal drugs, FDA approved and everything, takes a long time and is EXPENSIVE
volch1tsa
Why has no one tried it before??
WeaponizedJerk
I call massive bullshit on that one. Either it’s purely fabricated or to leaves out a LOT
somnif
Basically, the drug already existed, just as an "orphan drug". She threw a ton of money around to get it fast tracked through approval.
WeaponizedJerk
See, that is far more believable than “lol she went and read books that somehow no one did”.
Onja
Apparently drugs are as easy as gingerbread houses lol, just read a book and do it
somnif
And, her drug also costs like 24,000$ a month to patients, so, ya know, that's not fun.
WeaponizedJerk
Yeah, so as far as I'm concerned she can go fuck herself.
skincancerisfun
We all know that with the right motivation, hardwork, and a 60 second experimentation montage, people can create miracles
DrKriegersClone
No, but if you have money and there's a rare condition that the basic science is already published but it's too rare a disease for a drug 1/
DrKriegersClone
2/ to be published, you can maybe bring it across the finish line with financing.
OrangeFlavours
That is true, but 'begin developing a drug' seems disingenuous then, as that doesn't make them a genius at all.
rbudrick
A lot of old 1800s books have recipes for motherfucktons of drugs. Shit, some tell you how to refine cocaine.
morelikeconsham
I mean, it's not exactly secret knowledge. My orgo professor used the refinement of cocaine as an example for his lecture.
rbudrick
In what way? Like the class made coke for his stash?
morelikeconsham
Well no, being a lecture and not a lab, he gave a lecture on it.
Onlyhereforthelaughs
I don't know what Sapphic means...
dedpan
Do you know what dictionary means?
Arenlor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho_of_Lesbos links to wiktionary on sapphic and lesbian in the top part of that.
DrasticBastard
From context I thought it meant genius until I looked it up.
bedarwarg
Woman-aligned person who is attracted to other woman-aligned people, exclusive or not.
Dashirl
Lmgtfy...
BoatswainsMate
Idk what any of it means. I don't know lots of things, do whatever makes you happy. Just don't get too upset if I don't know your pronouns
Onlyhereforthelaughs
Okay, Google seems to say that it's like Lesbian+, the + being pansexual/transsexual, etc.
etcnotect
Named after the ancient Greek poet Sappho of lesbos, where the term lesbian also comes from
TheobromineAddict
Wait… I've always said I'm a lesbian trapped in a man's body.
ThatOtherGirlYouKnow
You might actually be a lesbian then. Might be worth a read: https://genderdysphoria.fyi/en/
TheobromineAddict
That was fascinating. My therapist once told me that the issues I brought up with her were usually only mentioned by women.
PixelSprite64
So is that different from NewGame+ ?
Itcanbedone
You still keep your lesbianism and acquired skills, but transylvania level is now open
Mrdaihatsu
relating to lesbians or lesbianism.
"sapphic lovers"
Diftel
Presumably named after the famously gay as heck Greek poet Sappho. Odd coincidence if not!
NarratesTheDarkerStory
I thought it was for the famously gay as heck precious gemstone Sapphire.
crushingbore
They were roommates.
Efreeti
Itcanbedone
In college...
Kbantar
Except the label of lesbian was much later by her detractors, and without much evidence for it.
HiddenSanity
Other than her poems about how hot women were.
Kbantar
Only approximately 650 lines of Sappho's poetry still survive. There is still a lot that simply is not proven.
Sageypie
But she couldn't be gay, she said she was married to Kerkylas of Andros, who's name translates to..."Dick All Cock of Man isle"...huh.
tarnok
Not true. she was married to Kerkylas of Andros, who's name translates to..."Dick All Cock of Man isle". Totally not a lesbian.
CheeseIsNaturesFudge
It is named after her. Further fun facts include the name of her totally real and definitely not made up husband translating to 1/2
CheeseIsNaturesFudge
Dick Allcock from man Island.
Blackcurry328
I was helping my brother pick out some college courses for this semester, since he’s going to the same college o graduated from, and I 1/3
Blackcurry328
came across a class called Sappho and her legacy. Really wish I had known they offered that when I was there. Definitely would have done 2/3
xXxSTEVOxXx
Wachowski biopic when! Wachowski. Biopic. WHEN!! The thematic overlaps with their other work makes me think it'd be glorious
ThatOtherGirlYouKnow
I rewatched their 1996 film noir Bound the other day and.. yeah... wow.
obviouslyrob
13 year old me watched it for Jennifer Tilly being naked. 20+ year old me watches it because it is FUCKING WIIIIIILD
SocialismForTheRichCapitalismForThePoor
Whats this about?
xXxSTEVOxXx
The wachowskis explore a lot of transhumanist themes in their movies and writing. Plus they're also transwomen. So itd be a great movie
SocialismForTheRichCapitalismForThePoor
What? the guys that made matrix?
ThatOtherGirlYouKnow
The girls who made the matrix.
xXxSTEVOxXx
You should google lily. Her look is fuckin sooooo cool. She has like these gnarly ass pink dreads. She makes me feel like it's the future.
xXxSTEVOxXx
Yeah they both came out as transwomen. Lily like a decade ago and Lana more recently. Wasnt like a huge media thing.
SocialismForTheRichCapitalismForThePoor
Well damn did not know.
HaniiPuppy
Transhumanism is good, but it needs to be remembered that making a perfect copy doesn't retain the continuity of consciousness - if you ...
crateo
Trans humanism is shady AF XD.
HaniiPuppy
... saved someone's mind to a file then wrote that to a new brain, you'd have just that: a copy. A different person with the same memories.
ThatOtherGirlYouKnow
That is what happens biologically anyway. We just replace it bit by bit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
jherazob
The Ship of Theseus is the opposite of that, it remains the same *because* of continuity
ProfessorTenebrae
I would recommend you see the story of the game Soma.
Lumpyguy
What's the functional difference? If there is none, why do we need to be remembered that a copy is a copy?
crateo
Time and space. You are a perfect copy occupying a different time and space.
Bacxaber
Holy fuck you're stupid. IT ISN'T THE SAME CONSCIOUSNESS.
ThatOtherGirlYouKnow
It never is, you are literally a copy of a past version of you every 7 years.
Bacxaber
A clone/separate body wouldn't be me though, mate.
Argondey
The point is that it's splitting hairs. There is no practical definition of *you*. You are technically a different person with every breath.
nutjob2
You still die, your copy lives forever but you never experience that.
eightyearplan
yeah, 'mind-uploading' aside, from an outside perspective- most people don't interact with other people on anything close to 100%..
eightyearplan
so we're reasonably close to mimicing a tea party with your gran, and so on.
HaniiPuppy
The functional difference is that it won't be you. It'll be a copy of you. You won't experience anything it experiences, because the ...
HaniiPuppy
... copy's consciousness (if present at all) is not your consciousness. If you're still alive, the situation would be comparable to ...
HaniiPuppy
... having an identical twin - just because you're copies doesn't mean you're literally the same person.
Bacxaber
Too many morons don't understand this. Thank you for educating these clowns.
Lumpyguy
That's a difference,not a functional difference.If my clone thinks like me,talks like me, looks like me,there is no *functional* difference.
HaniiPuppy
How is it not a functional difference? You won't live on through your clone, you will be dead as a doornail. Unless you're not, in which ...
Lumpyguy
Because there's no difference from the outside. There's no FUNCTIONAL difference. If no one told you it was a clone, you would never know.
HaniiPuppy
... case, you will literally be able to see your clone living its own life, which you are not experiencing, because it is not you - and ...