We Are as Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance with Peter Diamandis, Steven Kotler, and Joe Polish
Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler share their new book We Are as Gods. The thesis is exactly as big as the title. We suddenly have godlike capabilities in AI, longevity, genetics, and robotics. The only question that matters now is whether we are wise enough to handle them.
Here's what you're about to discover in this conversation:
- Why Peter and Steven say biblical-scale miracles are now what they call “Tuesday morning,” and the exact categories of technology that are already delivering them
- Ray Kurzweil's jaw-dropping prediction about the next ten years, the Dario Amodei prediction about doubling human lifespan, and the humanoid robots you will be able to buy for the price of a used car
- The cascade Steven nicknamed “exponential leadership syndrome,” the ten-step chain that is quietly crushing founders and CEOs right now, and the one neurobiological antidote that unwinds it
- Universe 25, the $800,000 mouse experiment every Entrepreneur needs to know about before AI removes any more friction from your life
- The Five Great Forks of humanity, and the single mindset choice that decides which side of the fork you end up on
- The one thing you have to do before you ever touch an AI tool again. Get this wrong and you will quietly make yourself dumber in about thirty days
- Peter's full longevity stack, the number one predictor of how long you will live, and why optimism is worth an extra fifteen percent on your lifespan according to the National Academy of Sciences
- What twenty-seven years of friendship with Elon Musk has taught Peter about what actually drives world-changers, and why it has nothing to do with the money
- Steven's rule for launching anything that matters. He calls it “above the line of super credibility,” and it is why most book launches, foundations, and movements quietly die on arrival
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Show Notes:
Fountain Life | Peter's longevity and precision-diagnostics company
Flow Research Collective | Steven Kotler's research nonprofit
Strategic Coach | Dan Sullivan
Genius Recovery | Joe Polish's addiction-recovery foundation
Steven Kotler is a New York Times-bestselling author, an award-winning journalist, a serial entrepreneur, and the founder and executive director of the Flow Research Collective. The author of fifteen books, including eleven bestsellers, Kotler's work has earned three Pulitzer Prize nominations, been translated into over 80 languages, and appeared in over 100 publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Wired, TIME, and the Harvard Business Review.
His bestseller, Stealing Fire, was named Best Business Book of the Year by both CNBC and Strategy + Business, and has been partially credited with sparking today’s psychedelic renaissance. His other books—The Art of Impossible, The Rise of Superman and Gnar Country—are considered foundational texts in the field of performance neuroscience.
Named by Fortune as one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders, Peter H. Diamandis, MD is a pioneer in innovation, longevity, and exponential technologies.
He is the Founder and Executive Chairman of XPRIZE Foundation, which has launched over $600 million in competitions driving more than $10 billion in research and development across space, health, robotics, climate, quantum and AI.
Peter also co-founded Singularity University, Link-Exponential Ventures, BOLD Capital Partners, and multiple companies focused on extending human healthspan and accelerating technological progress.