A side-conversation between two of our panelists: What would the impact of practical immortality (a la Kurzweil) be on the Nobel Prizes? If you can keep trying for a couple hundred years, does that make being a laureate less valuable? Or will there be bigger problems caused by people being able to stay in tenured professorships for centuries?
The kind of thing that makes you hate to call a meeting back to order....
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