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Johnson: Most mainstream advice about food and medicine is wrong
“Most of it. Really? Yeah, most of it, yeah.”
Johnson: Humans will eventually no longer be the architects of intelligence
“I can't imagine a situation where we humans are still the architects of intelligence in some duration of time.”
Johnson: Superintelligence growth renders human future predictions impossible
“I think they say, you're In the eve before the creation of super intelligence, and the intelligence you're creating is growing at a speed faster than you can comprehend. That renders your ability to predict the future to zero.”
Johnson: Entrepreneurial hustle and sleep martyrdom culture is a normalized death cult
“The only objective is that intelligence continues to thrive in this part of the galaxy, but your games of martyrdom are basically a death cult, and you normalize to it, and you can't see it.”
Johnson: Project Blueprint costs $1,500 monthly, not $2 million annually
“The headline with Blueprint is that it's two million dollars a year. It's not. It's, you know, like, 1500 dollars a month, which includes your groceries.”
Johnson: Pharma and medical institutions do not operate out of malice
“I don't think it's because of malice. I don't think it's because pharma is some kind of evil, you know, group trying to kick over the world. They're doing their thing, and everyone is. Doctors are. Institutions are. So I don't assign any malice.”
Johnson: Leaving church and getting divorced cured his 10-year chronic depression
“I left my church, and I got a divorce. And those two changes just made it evaporate. So it was environmental, and it was contextual.”
Johnson: Biological immortality may replace wealth and legacy as ultimate human goals
“We are a species that craves immortality. We do. We crave it through our children, through money, through legacy. We crave it through accomplishments. And I'm suggesting that true immortality, or don't die, may be the replacement for all these other games we'v…”
Johnson: Longevity backlash occurs because people fear their life choices are obsolete
“This is why this, these ideas are so provocative and why they generate so much hate. Is that people have these knee-jerk reactions and they're defending all their life choices. Because to realize that you've been playing a game your entire life that is about t…”
Johnson labels any action that accelerates his biological aging as self-violence
“I'm going to say any action that I take that increases my speed of aging, going to label as an act of violence, and I'm going to shift it.”
Johnson: 'Don't die' is the foundational game played before capitalism or religion
“That's the zeroth step, is, you know, don't die is the most played game By every human, by every living being on every animal, every plant, every human, it's don't die every second of every day. And so it's played more than capitalism. It's played more than re…”
Johnson: Aim to be zero and create new games instead of competing
“Don't try to be number one. Try to be zero. And number one is like you're going for rank in a given game. You're trying to be other players. A zero is, this is like a different concept. Zero is principle thinking. You're trying to come up with a new idea, a ne…”
Johnson disregards his first five thoughts to let his brain situate itself
“I know with my thoughts, in any given situation, I will disregard the first Five or six thoughts I have on anything because I know my brain's like just trying to situate itself.”