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Tristan Roberts - The Furrowed Brow w/ Jeffrey Kibler - EP005
Guest Tristan Roberts is deeply embedded in the biohacking community. He's currently in Prospera on the island of Roatan running a phase 1 trial for a follistatin plasmid gene therapies. He featured in Unnatural Selection on Netflix and Citizen Bio on Showtime.
00:00:00 - Teaser
00:00:44 - Intro
00:01:43 - Tristan's Biohacking Story - HIV, Follistatins and a Tenuous Relationship with Formal Processes
00:09:56 - The problem with getting follistatin gene therapy approved in the US
00:13:18 - What is IRB? (Institutional Review Board), The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
00:15:37 - What's good about regulations and what's bad? Regulatory corruption and the Valley of Death
00:19:27 - Resources for picking up research for dead therapeutics?
00:20:31 - How is your independent research being funded? How is Prospera functionally different?
00:23:49 - Tristan's take on the best regulation scheme
00:26:26 - How Web3 and DeSci can help aggregate health data
00:29:18 - How do you prevent attacks or exploitation of the system?
00:32:04 - Robert F Kennedy, Anthony Fauci and the Manipulation of Science and Science Media and Manufacturing Consent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
00:36:52 - Incentive problems in healthcare
00:39:49 - Fix? Revolt? or wait to rebuild?
00:41:26 - Jeffrey tells a story of living in Hawaii and losing faith in government programs
00:45:34 - Oligarchy
00:45:57 - Musk is going to fuck around and find out while SBF is the hero of the NYTs
00:46:59 - Tristan worries about becoming a slave in the mines of Mars
00:47:42 - Tristan's take on Effective Altruism and a friend trying to become a professional furry
00:49:37 - Maximizing pleasure leading to VR users doing heroine for the rest of time
00:52:37 - AI Alignment, Tristan's fear of an anthropomorphized AI
00:56:22 - What is the biggest about AI?
00:58:20 - What does AI want? Should AIs have rights?
01:00:20 - Trans-humanism, what is it? Trans-speciesism?
01:03:30 - Lateral Gene Transfer, Chimeric Embryos and Curing HIV with Seaman
01:07:34 - A Pirate Bay for gene mods and the Furries at the Tip of the Spear for Gene Modification
01:12:29 - Concerns about Follistatin Users with Poor Habits
01:13:53 - Prediction Markets for Drug Discovery: https://manifold.markets/
01:22:33 - Outro
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