A First Principles Approach on Taking Care of Your Body

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A first principles approach on taking care of your body would be something like self-discipline egg whites for breakfast. go ahead if you had to predict how many zero principal ideas would do you think there will be in the next five years ten years and a hundred years it's reasonable to assume that zero principal insights will have some kind of exponential curve when you add computational AI why is it reasonable? "I'm saying I need to remove myself as the principal agent of taking care of me," 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