Bryan Johnson argues that not dying is humanity's most urgent principle, then breaks down threats from self-destructive habits to war. He describes his Blueprint health regimen as one answer to the first layer, then asks whether technology or systems beyond personal effort could solve the conflicts that kill us.
If we said what is the single principle today? I think it's really simple. It's don't die. That's it. And so then we can branch it out into the other levels of complexities. If you say then don't die, the next thing would be how do we not die? And so we could die by our own self destructive behaviors. We can die with inflicting harm upon each other. We can die when nation states have warfare between them. Therefore, if the principles don't die, how do we solve all these different layers of cooperation so that we don't die die? And so blueprint was a first approach to say how can I tackle this cooperation problem I have with myself? And so all the things I do that, that increase my chances of dying. Eating too much food, junk food, not sleeping correctly, you're not, you know, skipping bedtime, skipping exercise, basically accelerating my aging decay and decline. And so what I then said is, okay, is there an alternative source of power besides me that can resolve my conflict?
