Oceans of Wisdom

he recommends the fairly well established stuff

he does not recommend the n=1 stuff

and if you see what he recommends normal people do

I mean, there is no doubt he is actually right on the merits of 90%+ of what he is recommending

to jog

and f-ck, maybe I should not be having wine at 11pm or pizza for the 5th time this month. maybe I should have eaten my berry bowl, gone to bed on time and woken up to job

I think the reaction is more people potentially worried that "he may be right"

(I am not particularly biohacked in any way)

judging from myself

Now, to my secret theory about why people are upset?

don't die is a great meme

he is good memetically

because it is unusual

gets the free media cycle

the n=1 stuff is the stuff that gets the attention

but if he did not do those things, you would have never heard of him

now, I know people will say "it is not that, it is the plasma transfers or whatever that I am upset about"

and everyone gets very upset at Bryan :)

so right now the messaging is 99.999999% "things that are bad for you +/-" and Bryan out there saying "hey, eat your veggies and go to bed on time"

and nobody has every complained that "McDonalds or Bacardi need to do a study to prove that a cheeseburger and rum and coke will make you healthier and happier when eat / drink them"

to convince us to eat food that is between neutral and bad for us

There are hundreds of billions of dollars a year of marketing

I do not understand why people are upset (well I have a theory I will share in a second)

I think he is net good for the world

so it is something like: - conventionally good health advice (90%) - n=1 experiments (10%) - wrapped in a very memeable (which is why people are talking about him) view on tech/longevity accelerationism. "don't die" is better meme than explaining that ASI might accelerate development of treatment for liver cancer in 2033

this is controversial but notably Ray Kurzweil who has been right about everything involving computers for the last 40 years also believes it

so "don't die" right now is a very high expected value bet

now this is layered with a theory that is basically ASI will drive longevity and we might reach some type of escape velocity in the 2030s

this is the substance of what he is doing

whereas the 500 millionth person eating junk food and killing themselves for sure, we know what the outcome is, we have done the studies. we do not need any more n=1 studies of "if you drink too much, don't exercise and eat candy bars" we are 100% sure what will happen

with his stuff, we might learn something useful

2/ he does some edge stuff that is experimental - I see no moral or ethical problem with him experimenting on himself

1/ The large majority of what he does is conventionally correct health advice. if you sleep well, eat your veggies, work out, cut out processed food, etc etc, you will get fitter and healthier and almost certainly feel better

you can model imho Bryan across two dimensions

seems a bit odd tbh

while everyone in the world who is "not Bryan Johnson" is sure that Bryan is not happy about it

I mean the guy says over and over I feel much better than I did before

he seems happy with what he is doing, no?

Bryan Johnson?

well done ser

zk tech is both very interesting and hard

looks awesome congratulations

would in no way have been as good

the thing that I would have built

and then launch the meme cards

imagine if I said "i am going to go off and build, waves hands, all this"

as a way to get input

but I like this "cycle" based approach

in fact, much in favor of it

I am not opposed to building