Bryan Johnson poses a thought experiment at his brunches: would you follow an algorithm's perfect prescription for diet, sleep, and lifestyle? The question triggers existential crises in attendees who realize they'd lose the freedom to choose something as basic as eating, forcing them to confront what liberty actually means to them.
Blueprint demonstrated the mind is dead. It's the most substantial revolution that's happening in the world right now is algorithms are getting better at doing the things that we care about in every domain of our lives. And we haven't reconciled with this yet, but then it just simply becomes a problem. So I hold these blueprint brunches at my house. If you had an algorithm that could take give you near perfect health, mental and physical health, would you be willing to say yes to this protocol? Now, in exchange, you'd have to adopt what it's going to suggest. You eat, what time you go to bed, you have to follow the protocol. Would you do it? And then we have a two and a half hour discussion about this. And it's wild. I mean, I've done, I don't know, a dozen of these or so, but people have multiple existential crises. It's amazing. They dip. Existential crisis, come back up for air, dip again, come back up for air. It's just full on. People reconciling with reality just breaks their brain in every possible way because people will say, like, if I can't choose what I'm going to eat, if I can't have that liberty to do it, I don't know why I exist.
