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Wired: Bryan Johnson Is Going to Die (long interview revealing just how crazy the longevity-obsessed tech bro is)
https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-bryan-johnson/I've put the quotes from Johnson in italics.
By Katie Drummond
The Big Story
Jul 21, 2025 6:00 AM
Bryan Johnson Is Going to Die
Millions of dollars in treatments, supplements, and scans. Immortality through AI. Bryan Johnson’s longevity script has everything—except an ending.
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Over a 90-minute conversation, Johnson spoke at length about his longevity protocol, his assessment of RFK Jr.’s MAHA movement, and those agreements that he continues to enforce. He also took great pains to convince me—and all of you—that this wasn’t just about health and longevity. No, like most tech men living in boxy modernist homes and saddled with illusions of grandeur, Johnson has a new holy grail with which to galvanize his faithful following: artificial intelligence, baby.
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Death has always been inevitable, so we have made all these preparations. We talk about immortality in professional achievements. We talk about life after death. There are the ways that we’ve dealt with death up to this point. And now we have this real possibility of extending our lifespans to some unknown horizon. So that’s extension. But we also have the ability to begin moving ourselves to computational systems. So currently, in a very crude form, I have a Bryan AI that has digested everything I’ve ever said.
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Let’s think about your question in a different way. Most people today spend every waking moment pursuing wealth; and the time they’re not spending pursuing wealth, they’re pursuing some sort of status or prestige. When you give birth to superintelligence, you can start extending lifespans to some unknown horizon: 200 years, 1,000 years, 10,000 years. Millions of years. We don’t know. When that happens, the entire game of humanity shifts from that singular focus on wealth accumulation and status and prestige to existence. Now, embedded in existence, we may still play games of power, but it will be conditioned that existence itself is the highest virtue. That’s the shift that’s starting to happen right now.
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I do feel like this is legitimately an opening that we haven’t seen for a few thousand years, for a new global ideology to emerge rapidly and be the fastest-growing ideology in history. Something’s going to rise and fill this void, whether it’s Don’t Die or something else. So I was trying to figure out, how do you actually talk about this? People don’t care about philosophy. They don’t really care about ideas, not until it’s really important. What they do care about is their health, how they feel in the morning, how they look. I tried to approach this conversation in a way that would be understandable, where Don’t Die as a philosophy is going to bed on time and eating nutritious foods and saying no to junk food. Once you get people in, and they can understand health is a really good thing, you can bridge to philosophy and be like, “There’s this bigger thing going on that we can talk about.”
-snip-
The Big Story
Jul 21, 2025 6:00 AM
Bryan Johnson Is Going to Die
Millions of dollars in treatments, supplements, and scans. Immortality through AI. Bryan Johnson’s longevity script has everything—except an ending.
-snip-
Over a 90-minute conversation, Johnson spoke at length about his longevity protocol, his assessment of RFK Jr.’s MAHA movement, and those agreements that he continues to enforce. He also took great pains to convince me—and all of you—that this wasn’t just about health and longevity. No, like most tech men living in boxy modernist homes and saddled with illusions of grandeur, Johnson has a new holy grail with which to galvanize his faithful following: artificial intelligence, baby.
-snip-
Death has always been inevitable, so we have made all these preparations. We talk about immortality in professional achievements. We talk about life after death. There are the ways that we’ve dealt with death up to this point. And now we have this real possibility of extending our lifespans to some unknown horizon. So that’s extension. But we also have the ability to begin moving ourselves to computational systems. So currently, in a very crude form, I have a Bryan AI that has digested everything I’ve ever said.
-snip-
Let’s think about your question in a different way. Most people today spend every waking moment pursuing wealth; and the time they’re not spending pursuing wealth, they’re pursuing some sort of status or prestige. When you give birth to superintelligence, you can start extending lifespans to some unknown horizon: 200 years, 1,000 years, 10,000 years. Millions of years. We don’t know. When that happens, the entire game of humanity shifts from that singular focus on wealth accumulation and status and prestige to existence. Now, embedded in existence, we may still play games of power, but it will be conditioned that existence itself is the highest virtue. That’s the shift that’s starting to happen right now.
-snip-
I do feel like this is legitimately an opening that we haven’t seen for a few thousand years, for a new global ideology to emerge rapidly and be the fastest-growing ideology in history. Something’s going to rise and fill this void, whether it’s Don’t Die or something else. So I was trying to figure out, how do you actually talk about this? People don’t care about philosophy. They don’t really care about ideas, not until it’s really important. What they do care about is their health, how they feel in the morning, how they look. I tried to approach this conversation in a way that would be understandable, where Don’t Die as a philosophy is going to bed on time and eating nutritious foods and saying no to junk food. Once you get people in, and they can understand health is a really good thing, you can bridge to philosophy and be like, “There’s this bigger thing going on that we can talk about.”
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This guy has very fundamental misunderstandings of what most people care about. But he's describing himself and a lot of other tech bros - and like them, he's thinking that what he's working on is exactly what the entire world needs.
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