Bryan Johnson: Most people will reject algorithmic governance as dystopian
Bryan Johnson · Bryan Johnson: Why Humans are No Longer Qualified to Manage Our Own Affairs | E1130 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Mar 22, 2024 · at 28:27
Blueprint founder Bryan Johnson explains why listeners instinctively react with hostility toward his ideas about ceding human decision-making control to algorithms.
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“So these ideas, a lot of people listening to this their knee-jerk reactions are going to be something like, this guy's nuts. This is dystopic. You know, the majority of people listening will have those thoughts because they're gonna, they, even though we've talked about the process of new ideas landing, And trying to be open-minded and not do it. Even though that's the entry point for our conversation, people are going to want to hate on these ideas so fast because they threaten everything about our existence.”
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