223: Bryan Johnson | A Plan for the Future of the Human Race
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Bryan Johnson (@bryan_johnson) is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and founder and CEO of Kernel, a company developing advanced neural interfaces, and OS Fund, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage science and technology companies.
What We Discuss with Bryan Johnson:- Why humanity needs to co-evolve with artificial intelligence if we are to survive as a species.
- What future literacy is and why it's crucial for understanding the role humanity will play in the decades to come.
- The steps being taken to comprehend what makes biological systems fail in order to improve their capabilities.
- How privacy inequality could create more of a disparity between people than economic disparity ever could.
- Why Bryan advises us to be skeptical of advice -- and how we can discern between what's applicable to our own situation and what's completely useless.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:05.3 | As always I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:07.7 | My friend Brian Johnson created a payment company called BrainTree and later sold it for |
| 0:12.3 | $800 million in cash. |
| 0:15.1 | He promptly turned around and devoted an enormous chunk of this money to developing brain |
| 0:19.7 | machine interfaces. |
| 0:21.7 | In other words, trying to solve the enormously complex problem of connecting our human brains |
| 0:26.6 | to computers and artificial intelligence. |
| 0:29.6 | This problem is very, very complex because if our brains were simple enough for us to understand, |
| 0:34.4 | we'd be too dumb to understand it at the first place. |
| 0:37.1 | That and a whole bunch of other reasons we can't just plug wires into our head without any |
| 0:40.6 | sort of negative consequences. |
| 0:42.7 | And today on the show, we get into the weeds about the future of humanity and why we need |
| 0:47.0 | to co-evolve with artificial intelligence if we are to survive as a species. |
| 0:52.2 | Brian is very, very passionate about this and he's a friggin' genius. |
| 0:55.6 | So we both get pretty excited here. |
| 0:57.3 | We'll also discuss how and why being able to interface with our brain, Brian believes, |
| 1:01.6 | is the most consequential endeavor of the human race. |
| 1:05.0 | Even more important than getting to Mars or other similarly large endeavors. |
| 1:08.7 | And by the end of this episode, you'll see that the future of the human race lies in |
| 1:12.7 | our ability to evolve our cognition because everything lives downstream from our minds. |
| 1:18.7 | That includes what we care about, how we resolve differences, the future of work, how |
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