Bryan Johnson explores zeroth principle thinking: discoveries that didn't exist before. AlphaGo produced three to four completely novel moves against Lee Sedol that broke human Go strategy. Johnson asks how many such unprecedented innovations AI will generate as it spreads across society, potentially remapping civilization in unimaginable ways.
Zeroth principle thinking is discovering things that don't exist. And so if you want to look at a 0th principle type event, when AlphaGo played Lisa Dole in Go, so you take AI, you introduce it to a game of Go. Human genius has played GO for thousands of years. So a lot of human genius, a lot of talent Go enters the game within a few hours time, it breaks the game of Go. I would say it introduced like three or four zero principle moves in that series of matches. So how many zero principle discoveries is artificial intelligence intruded to society when it really starts immersing itself stuff everywhere. And that's why it's going to remap society beyond anything we can imagine.
