Bryan Johnson Quotes

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.

The future of being human is not super strength willpower, it’s systems that lessen its reliance.

Enabling each of us to progress at the speed of compounded gains, similar to our technology. Avoid ever repeating the same mistake twice.

Self harm, while currently normalized and even encouraged throughout all facets of society, will soon become frowned upon. I can imagine in the future we’ll toss the idea of self harm aside and say, that’s silly. Why would anyone do that?

Every time before driving, I recite:

Driving is the most dangerous thing I do.

No superlative can fully capture the significance of ChatGPT. Even first principles thinking falls short of creating a map of imagination. This is a Zeroth Principe drop.

Far from being embarrassing, not knowing is one of the smartest things we are all capable of.

Zeroth Principle thinking is discovering something that wasn’t known to exist.

The future is a horizon of zeros. Open mindedness+adaptability will be prized personal traits.

Live a life, not to be ranked, but to be emulated

The future of our realty will increasingly be computational, overtaking narratives

Humans prioritize what gives them status, power and respect. We're so close to a cultural shift where high quality sleep achieves those goals.

Cultural norms - and our conscious minds - consider sleep dispensible. It's a lighthouse to me.

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.

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.

The body is not a calculator. Life is not just the pursuit of quantified records.

brain is just a bunch of cells degrading together because we’re basically just an overclocked ape.