20VC: Bryan Johnson on Why Humans Are No Longer Qualified to Manage Our Own Affairs, How Algorithms Will Run our Bodies and How to Process New Ideas and Challenge Conventional Beliefs
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🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Bryan Johnson is the founder of Blueprint, the man is at war with death and is mastering longevity. Bryan is on a mission aimed at enhancing human intelligence and being respected by people in the 25th century. Before starting Blueprint, Bryan also founded Braintree (acquired by PayPal for $800M) and OS Fund – a $100M venture capital fund investing in genomics, synthetic biology, and complex systems.
In Today’s Episode with Bryan Johnson We Discuss:
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The Philosophy of Don’t Die
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What does Bryan think is the biggest existential threat to humankind?
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Why does Bryan believe humans are unfit to manage their own affairs?
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Why does Bryan care about being liked by the 25th century?
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Does Bryan think society is ready to adapt to immortality?
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How to Process New Ideas
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What 3 questions does Bryan ask to test new ideas?
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How does Bryan combat against his own biases?
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How does Bryan adapt to change? What has been his most painful experience?
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Why does Bryan think religion is humanity’s most durable technology?
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The Most Measured Human in the World
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What did Bryan learn about himself as the most measured human in the world?
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How does Bryan use algorithms to take care of himself?
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What has been Bryan’s most expensive test?
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How did Bryan use data to rejuvenate his sexual function?
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How will tech & AI play a role in human longevity?
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Health & Parenting Advice
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How does Bryan raise his children?
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How does Bryan get perfect sleep every night? What are his tips?
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What is Bryan’s advice to people who think it’s too late to start becoming healthy?
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What health advice does Bryan think is BS?
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| 0:00.0 | I'm fundamentally proposing that the human race is no longer qualified to manage our affairs. |
| 0:07.8 | We can engineer the source code for life. |
| 0:10.8 | We have the computational tools that have exceeded our native intelligence and abilities. |
| 0:16.3 | I made an algorithm that takes better care of me than I can myself. |
| 0:19.9 | The game I'm trying to play in life |
| 0:21.5 | is how to be respected by the 25th century. This is 20VC with me, Harry Stebbings, and |
| 0:27.4 | today is a show unlike any other as we welcome the man who is at war with death, the man who |
| 0:32.4 | spends millions per year to reverse his own aging. Yes, there's not many options in terms of who this one could be. |
| 0:39.1 | I'm thrilled to welcome Brian Johnson. Before mastering life and death, Brian was the founder of |
| 0:44.3 | Brain Tree, which he sold to PayPal for $800 million. And he's also the founder of OS Fund, |
| 0:49.9 | a fund where he invested $100 million of his own money into genomics, synthetic biology and |
| 0:55.9 | complex systems. Now, as I said, this is a show unlike any we've done before if you want to |
| 1:00.8 | watch the full episode you can on YouTube by searching for 20VC. But before we dive into this |
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| 1:11.6 | back and forth between yet another digital tool. What was supposed to simplify your workflow |
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| 1:21.8 | automate the tedious tasks, like summarizing meeting notes, or finding next steps, really freeing you up to do the deep work |
| 1:29.0 | that we all want to do. And that's why Notion is used by over 50%, 50% of Fortune 500 companies and |
| 1:36.3 | teams that use Notion, send less emails, cancel more meetings and reduce spending on tools. Try |
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