Bryan Johnson wants to write a manifesto for humanity, inspired by Thomas Paine and Sun Tzu, to address three converging crises: runaway AI, ecological collapse, and escalating human violence. He's trying to distill a survival plan into something short enough to spread and move people to act.
I've been absolutely obsessed in thinking about the problem of what we do as a species. A few things that are on my mind recently. The progress that's been made in artificial intelligence. If we go out and we zoom in on planet Earth, we try to quiet the landscape and come up with the clearest possible assessment we can of reality. I'd say there's three things going on. One, artificial intelligence is improving incredibly fast in ways which we cannot predict. Number two is the biosphere of our planet is in question. And three is we humans are dangerously at each other's throats. I'm playing with this idea of writing a pamphlet in the same vein as Thomas Paine writing Common Sense during the American Revolutionary War. The most commonly read pamphlet referencing Luther's 95 theses, which he nailed to the door. The Art of War, the Art of Survival. I'm trying to come up with a framework on how to basically share some thoughts.
