The Billionaire Who Is Planning His 125th Birthday
He sounds like an organic candidate for cryonics. Unfortunately rich people have to come to cryonics on their own initiative; efforts to recruit them have consistently not worked.
He also makes me think of a cross between Jack LaLanne and an Ayn Rand-style hero. Unfortunately in the current cultural climate some influential Americans view the self-made, self-educated and self-valuing like Murdock as enemies of the people for building fortunes through voluntary transactions in the market; they claim that money mystically somehow belong to all of us. I therefore expect some hostile comments on that article.
He seems to have understand early on the importance of building up a cognitive reserve:
When he talks about his childhood, his lack of formal education is one of two themes he brings up again and again, usually to cast it as an inadvertent gift. He says that because he felt the need to compensate for it, he read prodigiously and, he stresses, without the narrowness of focus he notices in many conventionally learned people. Biographies of Andrew Carnegie, Socratic dialogues, Shakespearean sonnets, “The Prince”— he devoured it all over time. He also studied something called brain acceleration, which he says taught him to think about three things at once. “I’ll match wits with anybody,” he says. “I don’t care if they have the top degree in the world.” He notes that everyone on his research campus’s board is a Ph.D. or an M.D. But he, the high-school dropout, presides over the meetings.
I'll have to read up more about him. I hope he takes an interest in cryonics while it can potentially benefit him.
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