In 2022, what are humans theoretically capable of? In the 60s, it was like, let's go to the moon. If you pose the same question in 2022, what is barely, maybe doable? It might be tackling one of the most significant challenges we have as a species: our tendency and helplessness to commit self-harm.
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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