Where Does Your Desire to Seek Truth Come From?

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I don't know how to answer the question well that's fair maybe a better question might be where does your desire to seek truth comes from. I think an interesting possibility if we could reimagine how we are as a species and cooperate in an interesting way would be a step forward from our primal behaviors right now of tribalism and destruction, violence and all the wasteful things we do with our massive brains so what is my philosophy of life down to one sentence lucky us we exist let's build an infinite game to play? "The possibility seem greater than I can reach the game seems like a fun one to play," he says.

Bryan Johnson is the world's most measured human. Johnson sold his company, Braintree Venmo, to PayPal for $800m in 2013. Since then, he's been investing millions to reduce aging. In 2021, he reduced his epigenetic age by 5.1 years in 7 months (World Record). His open-sourced protocol, Project Blueprint, is an endeavor to achieve humanity and earth-scale cooperation starting within Self. In this conversation, we spoke about artificial intelligence, parenting, zero-principle thinking, the big change in Bryan's life, and why Bryan is kind to his detractors.

(0:00) Intro

(3:30) Why Children’s Books?

(5:41) Media Narrative: Tech = Bad

(12:00) Common Enemy?

(13:30) How Will Humans Change

(20:03) “Brutal Environment In Brain”

(27:19) Creating More Alignment Within Self

(31:33) What Makes For A Better Human?

(39:39) Living For 2500

(43:01) Ambition

(44:23) Truth

(47:35) Best & Worst Cases For AI