Bryan Johnson argues that algorithms will manage human health and decision-making better than people can themselves, using his Blueprint project as proof. He compares this shift to how the telegraph killed the Pony Express and GPS replaced paper maps, saying the transition is inevitable regardless of job loss or public resistance.
I think the most revolutionary thing about blueprint is that, for me, I have demonstrated in myself that an algorithm is better at taking care of me than I can myself. And so, if we just think about this, so when the first message was sent with a telegraph, the pony Express was dead. The first time we had digital navigation, paper maps on the lap were dead. We know this is true. It doesn't matter what anyone's opinion is. It doesn't matter if people lose jobs because they can't do the Pony Express anymore. It doesn't matter. It's dead. So here's the kicker. What I think just like Nietzsche following Nietzsche, a 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.
