Posted on 03/31/2026 9:56:48 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
After operating in secrecy for years, a startup company called R3 Bio, in Richmond, California, suddenly shared details about its work last week—saying it had raised money to create nonsentient monkey “organ sacks” as an alternative to animal testing.
In an interview with Wired, R3 listed three investors: billionaire Tim Draper, the Singapore-based fund Immortal Dragons, and life-extension investors LongGame Ventures.
But there is more to the story. And R3 doesn’t want that story told.
MIT Technology Review discovered that the stealth startup’s founder John Schloendorn also pitched a startling, medically graphic, and ethically charged vision for what he's called “brainless clones” to serve the role of backup human bodies.
Imagine it like this: a baby version of yourself with only enough of a brain structure to be alive in case you ever need a new kidney or liver.
Or, alternatively, he has speculated, you might one day get your brain placed into a younger clone. That could be a way to gain a second lifespan through a still hypothetical procedure known as a body transplant.
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You mean like Democrats?
Dang you. You beat me to it.
Yeah. I figured that would be a lot of people’s first thought.
The frog is an appropriate mascot. But they don’t realize that the organizers are scorpions.
They already made a movie with this exact story-line.
They dont realize the water is almost boiling.
“they don’t realize that the organizers are scorpions.”
Exactly right! They are being used and abused and don’t have a clue.
it was a pretty good movie, I saw it too.
I suspect that the truth about this company will not be much different.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399201/
The ones in the frog costumes are unusually stupid having no idea what/who they represent. On top of that the word on the sign should be “stronk”.
Everything done regarding AI and robotics has been, in my belief, to further the capability to transplant the intelligence of a person (primarily the ultra wealthy) to achieve immortality. These brainless sacks sound like the perfect receptor should brain extraction and implantation become possible.
There was an interview with one of these brainless idiots on Saturday.
Interviewer: “Why are you protesting”
Idiot: “I don’t like Trump’s policies”
Interviewer: “Which policies don’t you like. Can you name one?”
Idiot: “I shouldn’t be having this interview”
I kid you not!
Ha, we were all thinking it.
“Monkey Organ Sacks”. Sounds like a Retro-Punk band.
**Unexplained:
If you have a ‘human clone’ available for organ parts, will that clone grow and age along with the Owner?
Most organs of the body get bigger along with the host.
If the day ever comes to wanting to use that Clone as your New Body, what about all the muscles that have never been used, the bones that have never needed to become thick, strong and weight bearing? Such unused, virgin bones would be brittle and next to useless. Or is there a plan for that too?
Aside from any ethical concerns, this doesn’t seem to be economical to grow a human body as a back up for your body. Cloning arguments is cheaper.
A bunch of those “nonsentient monkey organ sacks” have offices on Capitol Hill!
“it was a pretty good movie, I saw it too.
I suspect that the truth about this company will not be much different.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399201/“
That movie was exaclyr opposite to this, those were sentient clones. Obviously it wouldn’t be a good story line if your clones were non sentient and just lives in pods like the matrix until harvested for their organs. Having a full cloned organ meat sack on tap would be exclusively for the ultra rich the resources to keep a spare body alive and IV feed would be enormous. 3D printing with universal stem cells just the organ needed seems to also be in the works.
Of course the end game is mind transfer into a new healthy body or into a machine that can supply the needs of just the brain. Downloading your mind into a robot body would make a immortal clone of the original as well.
My first thought also.
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