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Re:The X Prize is taking aim at aging with a new $101M award by Gualdrapo on Sunday December 03, 2023 @09:17AM (#38507230)
People rather like miracles and low effort results.
Re:The X Prize is taking aim at aging with a new $101M award by toomuchtodo on Sunday December 03, 2023 @09:19AM (#38507239)
And we will pay incredible amounts for them. The Danish central bank is holding interest rates below that of the ECB due to how successful Ozempic and Wegovy are [1] [2]. It's expected to be a $100B market by 2035 (assuming "one and done" gene therpay doesn't fast takeoff [3]).

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/21/business/ozempic-wegovy-deman...

[2] https://fortune.com/2023/09/22/obesity-drug-market-ozempic-w...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38495653

(if I can get the benefits of exercise without exercising, "shut up and take my money"; success is about outcomes, not effort)

Re:The X Prize is taking aim at aging with a new $101M award by RandomLensman on Sunday December 03, 2023 @10:39AM (#38507827)
Just in case: The Danish Central Bank is reacting to the economic success of the drug maker which impacts the currency flows and thereby the currency peg they are managing. (Not some health benefits thing by the central bank).
Re:The X Prize is taking aim at aging with a new $101M award by mensetmanusman on Sunday December 03, 2023 @01:49PM (#38509625)
America exporting the disorder of the US healthcare system and crashing currencies as we help companies become larger than their nation state GDPs. Kind of funny actually.
Re:The X Prize is taking aim at aging with a new $101M award by RandomLensman on Sunday December 03, 2023 @03:21PM (#38510384)
No currency crashing with DKK.
Re:The X Prize is taking aim at aging with a new $101M award by kiba on Sunday December 03, 2023 @10:26AM (#38507708)
That would be like investing into a single stock, and hoping that your investment pans out. You diversify your investments to reduce the risk of catastrophic loss.

I would like to encourage maximum effort into maintaining my health while waiting for interventions to develop. This is all on top of competing priorities such as projects I am working on.

Re:The X Prize is taking aim at aging with a new $101M award by BurningFrog on Sunday December 03, 2023 @10:10AM (#38507589)
Of course we do. Nothing wrong with that!