What's the Difference Between Zero Principal and First Principal?

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When you allow a system to run you're discovering both negative and positive things negative externalities and positive externalities but it's really the system that runs. Another tangible example of zero the principal inside is when Alpha Go was playing Go and beat the world champion who had won the world champion 19 times in a row on its I think it was like move 37 I would call that a zero principal move because it wasn't so genius hit the talent no one else could see hit the genius hit the target no one else can see.

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.

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