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Bryan Johnson: Don’t Die, Beating Entropy, AI Alignment & The Two-Species Future

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Bryan Johnson lays out “Don’t Die,” a moral framework that puts existence first and turns longevity into a shared fight against entropy. We pressure-test the hard stuff: selfishness, inequality, stagnation, and the so-called two-species future. Bryan argues these are solvable with smart societal engineering if “don’t die” is for everyone. He breaks down Blueprint as a practical on-ramp with evidence-based health, behavior, and social habits. We finish on crypto, from his Braintree days with Coinbase to how web3 could power a broad “don’t die” commons. ------ 📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24  https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🪙FRAXNET | MINT, REDEEM, EARN  https://bankless.cc/fraxnet 🦄UNISWAP | SWAP ON UNICHAIN https://bankless.cc/unichain 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR L2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle 💤EIGHT SLEEP | IMPROVE YOUR SLEEP https://bankless.cc/eight-sleep 💠BIT DIGITAL ($BTBT) | ETH TREASURY  https://bankless.cc/bit-digital We’re being compensated by Bit Digital (NASDAQ BTBT) for this segment promoting their company and BTBT. The compensation is paid in cash as a one time payment. You can find additional information about Bit Digital and BTBT on their Investor page at https://bit-digital.com/investors ------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Don’t Die 8:18 Beating Entropy 18:35 Existence as The Highest Virtue 21:01 Isn’t Don’t Die Selfish? 27:12 AI Alignment 31:36 Collective Don’t Die 33:34 Don’t Die & AI 37:36 Longevity Escape Velocity 40:57 The Two-Species Future 47:07 A Path Without Creative Destruction? 52:40 Bryan’s 500-Year Lifespan 59:19 Blueprint 1:04:52 Crypto 1:06:23 Closing Thoughts ------ RESOURCES Bryan johnson https://x.com/bryan_johnson  Bryan Johnson Links https://bryanjohnson.komi.io/  ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠

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0:00.0

And that's what Don't Die is about.

0:02.0

It's a new moral philosophy that says existence itself is the highest virtue, not profit, not status, not power.

0:12.0

Existence itself is the highest virtue.

0:18.2

We're here with Brian Johnson.

0:20.0

Brian, why don't you want to die?

0:23.5

I mean, I want to live for tomorrow.

0:27.3

So I have today is Wednesday.

0:29.6

Tomorrow's Thursday.

0:30.4

I've got some cool things going on tomorrow.

0:32.7

And also Friday.

0:34.0

And then this weekend, I've got some fun plans.

0:36.4

So I've got a pretty stacked couple days. This is the thing is when you ask somebody if they want to live forever, they're like, nah, I'll be bored or like, I'll lose my loved ones or like something like that. But really, we're all just living for tomorrow. Those are the same ideas. So just for tomorrow. You believe that you're going to have fun things to do for

0:55.0

all of time? Yeah, the thing is, like, somehow tomorrow always has something interesting going on.

1:02.8

So, okay, so don't die is your sort of like cult. And we're, we're very familiar with cults in the

1:09.3

crypto space. We kind of say that word fondly

1:11.1

with love. Maybe you can kind of explain this cult to us, this don't die moral philosophy

1:17.4

that you have started to like meme into existence into like the modern zeitgeist of time.

1:24.8

It's built upon this idea. If you look back through Western thought

1:28.2

and you try to categorize the big epochs,

1:32.3

you could say Plato and Aristotle,

1:35.3

Christianity, medieval, Renaissance,

1:39.6

Enlightenment, modern-day scientific era.

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