Hello, Internet. I asked for questions, and boy did you deliver with more than 7,000, so let's get started.

If you could have 30 of the greatest minds work for 30 years, what would you have them work on?

Immortality. Aging is a degenerative fatal disease of the genes in the same way Parkinson's is.

We're trying to cure Parkinson's with gene therapy along with leukemia, multiple melanoma, and others, why not aging? Well, because most people think of getting old and dying as a beautiful part of the life cycle.

It isn't.

With 30 years of genius, we could grasp control of our genetics and gain eternity.

Since you're pro-immortality, how would you solve overpopulation?

I'm not sold on overpopulation as a problem.

Birth rates have been going nothing but down, and until we build that Dyson sphere,

we aren't anywhere near the carrying capacity of the solar system.

And immortality is exactly the sort of thing that makes crazy long-term sustainability project possible.

First date ideas?

Scary experiences increase the probability of bonding.

This explains horror movies.

If you want the date to go well, do them.

If you don't, don't.

Why did you move to the UK? I'm sure I've answered this before, but everyone keeps asking, so here's the whole story in one place.

I grew up in the Empire State, starting in the suburbs, which I didn't like that much, then went to college in the wilds of upstate, which I liked better.

But it wasn't for me forever, so next stop, big city. New York was the obvious choice, but because I was raised in its shadow, New York felt a bit like a step backward in life.

I discovered around this time I had Irish dual citizenship through a series of random events, which opened up the EU and her largest city, London.

I knew if I didn't live abroad while still free of life's anchors, I never would, which made it all the more reason to go.

I applied to an economics master's program in London, was accepted and went and stayed for more than a decade. It turned out great. When you're leaving school, try the adventurous path. You can always fall

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