The question of do you want to live forever breaks human's brains our brains are not suitable to address that question. Most of us end the day most of time feeling like tomorrow's worth living so let's just get to a system where we say yes to tomorrow and then in terms of the age like i don't the end thing it's a relevant question it's just tomorrow. The idea of openness to what our future sources of joy could be is something we have to fight against with our brains their brains try to foreclose that uncertainty at the cost of trying to hold tight to the now. Human improvement beyond our imagination is our number one goal of the species that technology is in service of human
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Bryan Johnson, tech entrepreneur and Kernel founder, to talk about reversing his biological age with “the blueprint” (4:50), eating dinner at 11:00 am (12:15), pleasure through pain (15:45), rethinking what it means to be human (17:30), changing society (23:00), how this philosophy dovetails with his startup Kernel (24:50), the “cognitive crisis" (26:45), living outside the norm (30:45), the autonomous self (33:15), assembling a team of 25 people to create the blueprint (36:50), being a “rejuvenation athlete” (38:40), firing himself (43:50), creating a community of rejuvenation enthusiasts (47:15), how long he wants to live (50:50), the rise of the machines (52:50), and automating away willpower (57:50).
Bryan Johnson's Blueprint: https://blueprint.bryanjohnson.co/
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