[zhemao]

> Do you have any actual examples of wealthy philanthropists using "the rest of us" as guinea pigs to cure themselves of disease?

Peter Thiel wants to make himself ageless and immortal by injecting himself with the blood of the young. How's that?

[mattwg]

I hadn't heard about that before, thanks for sharing it. The idea makes for a comically evil headline, but it isn't obvious to me that the concept is necessarily nefarious or exploitative. It seems very similar to the blood transfusions we already do today to stop people from dying.