Bryan Johnson Quotes

So of course some aspects of ‘optimal’ will include pain or suffering or hardship. We all know that’s how this works.

The Earth has to balance its extraordinarily complex biosphere just as our body has to fight to achieve balance in what it lords over. It’s all the same. Systems balancing themselves.

First principles thinking gathers information, assumes nothing and builds.

In Zeroth principle thinking, you eagerly don't know and explore.

AI is creating a Zeroth-principle reality.

The path to excellence is an elegant dance with pain.

Sometimes it's easier to change belief systems than to change the rules.

It’s inevitable that existence becomes the world’s reserve currency. The crossover will happen soon.

psychological breakdown precedes civilizational collapse. psychosis is what emerges when the world changes faster than our shared story can adapt.

Death has no meaning when faced with life.

AI is improving rapidly; doing more and more of the hard+mundane things we do. Instead of wishfully thinking humans will hold onto some form of specialness, maybe we will transform our existence into realizing that there is no where to go, nothing to do and no one to become.

Actually, it might even do the opposite.” Model Builder: “Our bodies turn anything we eat into the proper food it needs. You can lose weight eating whatever you want as long as you count calories and take a vitamin pill. We all know that.

Power is moving away from football and fast food and towards health, science, and Indian food.

Be odd by early 21st century norms, cool in 2050.

How absurd is it that our hands never disobey yet our minds rationalize all of existence to fulfill want no matter the cost.

Post AGI, smart people may need to pivot.

The Addiction Economy is your enemy. They are predator, you are prey.