Bryan Johnson asks guests at his dinner table a simple question: would you follow an algorithm that guaranteed perfect health? Over a hundred conversations with scientists, entrepreneurs, and astronauts explore what it means to be human when an algorithm could optimize everything.
Hey everybody, I have a thought experiment for you. If you had access to an algorithm that could give you near perfect health, physically, mentally, spiritually, but in exchange for that perfect health you would follow what the algorithm told you to do, would you do it? This is the question I've posed to over a hundred people that I've had at private dinners at my house. Scientists, entrepreneurs, astronauts, school teachers and then after I pose a question we have a two and a half hour long discussion where people drop in and out of existential crisis on what does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be win? We have algorithms that can take better care of us. I've put the dinner into a book Don't Die by zero. If you read this you will be able to be at the dinner with all of us having the same conversation hearing the same arguments and ideas that people are expressing. So get the book and let's hang out.
