Bryan Johnson argues that exceptional opportunities sometimes justify sacrificing health, like pulling all-nighters to accelerate aging. He introduces "Gen Zero," a hypothetical generation willing to abandon existing norms entirely, as a potential catalyst for radical societal change.
There are trade offs though. There will be a time where your son needs to pull an all nighter before some sort of project gets put in. Like we inevitably compromises that will need to be made during everybody's life, right? Even during yours. At some point you will have an opportunity which is so good that you think this is for the greater good of blueprint. But it is going to mean that for this next week of traveling and blah blah, I am actually going to speed up my aging, so on and so forth.
We want this experience. We're justifying the trade off space in doing that. What we're saying is we always have the override switch to do this at all times. And what I want to pose is, and this is how we currently think about ourselves as a species, when we walk into this future, we bring those assumptions that remain hidden to our own awareness. And so I like working with this concept of Gen zero, this idea that group of humans walking into the future that is willing to divorce themselves from all human norms and customs.
