In this brief interview excerpt, the host asks Bryan Johnson to identify the single most important action people should take. Johnson responds that the number one priority is "human alignment," emphasizing it as the crucial focus. The host then asks him to explain what "human alignment" means, setting up a deeper discussion of the concept.
If you have to single something out that you would wish everyone else would be doing, where should people start? What's the number one?
And.
You can only pick one.
I think the number one important thing we can do is human alignment. Okay.
What does that mean? Translate that.
The baby step on human alignment is to start with self alignment. And the way I reframe that is to say, as a society, we have increasingly rejected violence. We say war is a bad thing, killing is a bad thing, general violence, human violence is a bad thing. I want to extend violence to acts of self. So eating too much food is a form of violence. Eating junk food is a form of violence against self. And so what I would say the baby step is try to get to a zero state of nonviolence with self.
