A million to the one who will live longer
Gerontologists-businessmen bet a million dollars on each other's death
Two leading scientists and businessmen engaged in prolonging human life made a bet among themselves: a million dollars (in shares) will go to the one of them who will live longer. This is reported by Gizmodo Australia (Anti-Aging Experts Made a Million-Dollar Bet on Who Dies Last).
The participants of the bet are Dmitry Kaminsky, senior partner of the Hong Kong venture fund Deep Knowledge Ventures, and Alex Zhavoronkov, CEO of the biotech company Insilico Medicine Inc., engaged in the invention of anti–aging drugs.
Collage from the website rechargebiomedical.com – VM
The purpose of the agreement concluded at the JPMorgan Health Care Conference, the largest American investment fair in the field of healthcare, is to prove that scientists are confident in the capabilities of science to stop the aging process.
Under the terms of the bet, one million US dollars (in Insilico Medicine shares) will be donated on behalf of the first deceased participant to the second. The agreement will expire when both participants turn one hundred years old. In addition, Kaminsky and Zhavoronkov agreed not to contribute to each other's death (by poisoning or assassins, for example).
"I would like to make similar bets with Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, so that they live longer and create some more great things. However, they do not seem to me worthy rivals in the field of life extension. I would argue with Sergey Brin and Larry Page – they are actively engaged in the fight against aging (the Calico project)," Kaminsky said.
Recently, the science of life extension has been attracting close attention from business. In 2013-2014, large companies were created: Calico and the genome sequencing startup Human Longevity, created by the pioneer of stem cell research Robert Hariri (Robert Hariri). Research in this direction is funded by billionaires such as Larry Ellison and Peter Thiel.
The most famous bet of this type was far from science: it was concluded by a ninety-year-old Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment and lawyer Andre-Francois Raffray. The lawyer undertook to pay Kalman monthly until her death an amount equivalent to 500 dollars – in exchange for the apartment bequeathed to him. However, Kalman died in 1997 at the age of 122 (the oldest person on Earth), Raffre died a few years before her, having managed to pay the old woman double the cost of the apartment.
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