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Bryan Johnson: Humans are no longer qualified to manage their own affairs
“I'm fundamentally proposing that the human race is no longer qualified to manage our affairs.”
Bryan Johnson believes most people on Earth passively accept or desire death
“I really don't want to die. And I'm here on this planet. With a bunch of people who do.”
Bryan Johnson considers 'Don't Die' to be the only endurable truth
“This is why I arrived at Don't Die. It is the only thing in existence that I know.”
Bryan Johnson: Religion is the most durable technology in human history
“If you look at the data, I think it might be fair to observe that religion has been the most powerful An effective and durable technology in all of history. It has outlasted nation states. It's outlasted technological trends. It's outlasted every other form of…”
Bryan Johnson: Discerning which AI timeline experts are correct is impossible
“If you're genuinely interested person about this question, you hear dozens of the top experts in the world all express different opinions, and for good reasons. Like, they all have well-reasoned arguments. And so then you say, what, how do I discern who's corr…”
Bryan Johnson: Framing social debauchery and vices as healthy bonding is bullshit
“Debauchery. The stories that people tell of their favorite vice, you know, it's like the glass of wine and the bowl of pasta with friends late at night talking about blankety blank as their most special moments. They treat it as though that's the only way that…”
Bryan Johnson: Hard science VC is less competitive than software investing
“I found it to be less competitive and less cutthroat and Then say, for example, you find the behavior and investing in a particular app or software company where you have, you know, dozens and dozens of companies that could are viable capital sources. There's …”
Bryan Johnson: Blockchain's societal impact is as unpredictable as the printing press
“I love it. It's a fantastic technology. It's that, I mean, I guess I kind of think of it like, I mean, the blockchain technology, I kind of think of it like the printing press, where when we figured out how we could, someone could write words, and it could be …”