“With computer software, genomics, virtual reality, artificial intellig...” — Bryan Johnson Quote

With computer software, genomics, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, robotics, biology, we can literally program everything, having the power to create any kind of world we can imagine. The most pressing question in my mind is: What kind of world do I want to build?

I started Braintree when I was 27 years old, I bootstrapped the company for the first four years. And we were profitable every month.

I love coffee, it's so fun.

If we could really measure our brain's activity, it would be a historical turning point for Homo sapiens, making radical human cognitive evolution possible.

The Chilcot report is damning. It exposes a litany of failures over a long period, including reliance on flawed intelligence assessments, lack of planning and insufficient foresight of obvious consequences. But the report also exposes a chilling lack of rigour and a political culture of deference.

We will not only use the machines for their intelligence, we will also collaborate with them in ways that we cannot even imagine.

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

The evolution of human tools, from rocks to AI, can be seen as a trajectory of increasingly powerful effort arbitrage, where we exploit our comparative advantage relative to our tools to do things better, and do more new things. Along this trajectory, tools that embody significant levels of intelligence are our most powerful yet.