Bryan Johnson: Don’t Die, Beating Entropy, AI Alignment & The Two-Species Future
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And that's what Don't Die is about. It's it's a new moral philosophy that says existence itself is the highest virtue, not profit, not status, not power. Existence itself is the highest virtue.
We're here with Brian Johnson. Brian, why don't you want to die?
I mean, I want to live for tomorrow. So I have today, today is Wednesday. Tomorrow's Thursday. I've got some cool things going on tomorrow and also Friday. And then this weekend, I've got some fun plans. So I got a pretty stacked couple days. This is 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 live my 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 gonna have fun things to do for all of time?
Yeah. The thing is, like, somehow tomorrow always has something interesting going on.
So okay. So don't die is your sort of like cult. And we we are we're very familiar with cults in the crypto space. We kinda say that word fondly with love. Maybe, Kenny, you can kind of explain this cult to us, this don't die moral philosophy that you have started to, like, meme into existence into, like, the modern guys zeitgeist of of Yeah. Of time. Yeah.
It's built upon this idea of if you look back through Western thought and you try to categorize the the big epochs, you could say Plato and Aristotle, Christianity, medieval, Renaissance, enlightenment, modern day scientific era. We've had these big eras that span a few hundred years, and they're usually built upon just a few primary beliefs, you know, like this the enlightenment. We are potentially at the end of what has been a couple hundred year run of how we understand ourselves in society. And when you look at the things that precipitated the change, it's usually where the system no longe
So, Brian, when you say existence is the highest virtue, it's like whose existence? Are we talking about the individual? Like, philosophy, and I'm am I saying that my existence is the highest virtue? Are we talking about humanity as a collective, or is it some combination of both?
Yeah. A combination of both. And so this is it's not a an effort to create immortality. It's an effort to say that the most sobering I guess, most practical question anybody can ask on planet Earth right now in this part of the galaxy is, what does an intelligent species do when you give birth to superintelligence? When you give birth to something that is of the breadth and depth and potential as AI, you know, we don't know exactly what it is. We don't know how it's going to manifest, but it's it's meaningful and it's it's substantial. And as that manifests, we as a species need to say, what d
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