That is Peter Diamandis, pictured. I have commented on Mr. Diamandis before, in a blog posting back in October. That October blog posting, I think, is properly seen as a rather critical evaluation of Mr. Diamandis' life project, which is to "live forever."
Once that posting about Mr. Diamandis was published on my blog (on October 13, 2025), I realized that this past blog posting did contain a line that I think deserves some positive emphasis, and upon which I didn't - though I should have - commented earlier. The New Yorker article upon which I based my earlier commentary said this about Mr. Diamandis:
He’s an emissary from the realms of possibility.
I am someone who claims to have "majored in utopia" in college, and I have always counted "possibility" as "my category." I resolutely proclaim that "anything is possible" in the world that we create ourselves, and in making that assertion, I do contrast the "Two Worlds" we simultaneously inhabit. In "our" human-created world, the "Political World" in which we most immediately live, "anything is possible." That's not true in the "World Of Nature," upon which we ultimately depend. The "World of Nature" is also called "The World God Made," and in that world, all the "laws" are given to us, and are not human creations.
Emphasizing the phrase I have indented, above, let me give a shout out to Mr. Diamandis right here. To the degree that he is reminding us that we all have access to the "realms of possibility" he is providing a service. But let's not get confused. Those "realms of possibility," to which we all DO have access, are realms within the human world, the "political" world that we create.
Ultimately, we live in the "World of Nature," and that is the world in which our finite life has been given to us. I am refining my critique of Peter Diamandis, in other words. Striving to make our aspirations "real" is exactly what we should all be doing. He has just gotten confused about where you can locate those "realms of possibility."
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