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Re:Peter Thiel: I'm on human growth hormone [video] by toomuchtodo on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @06:37PM (#8765152)
> Cancer is hard and nanomachine research is in its infancy. I can't predict the future, obviously, but I can guarantee you that people won't be using nanomachines to treat cancer for the forseeable several decades, if ever.

Want to make a Long Bet [1] on that? Years ago I would've never thought a private citizen would be delivering cargo to a space station with the goal of landing on Mars, but here we are. Reality can be unpredictable.

[1] http://longbets.org/

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Re:Peter Thiel: I'm on human growth hormone [video] by mahyarm on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @06:58PM (#8765244)
The difference between your unforeseeable future vs. the parent's is you could see a government doing the same decades ago, which means the technology was available that many decades ago to a private individual of sufficient resources.

His unforeseeable future wouldn't be possible because no entity could do it with sufficient resources and will right now according to him.

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