Bryan Johnson argues the returns on anti-aging technology could be tenfold to a thousandfold, and he wants to live long enough to see transformative developments. He frames extended life as a philosophical question: does humanity actually want to avoid death, or do our values contradict that goal.
I want to invest in slowing my speed of aging because I believe that the return on my investment could be 10x or 100x or 1000x. I believe, like, there's no reason why I can't imagine living for some unknown duration of time. And I want to be around for this amazing future. And so, even in that philosophical situation, if we try to align around this idea, some people are going to basically, inherently, what they're saying is, I'm okay dying. And I'm trying to say it's not okay to die. Now, of course, people can opt out fine. But what I'm trying to say that where we, as a, as a species, do we agree we want to keep on living, and it's not clear, and even if we say we do, do our behaviors match it? No.
