Millionaire biohacker Bryan Johnson accepts that his critics will laugh if he gets hit by a bus and dies, even as he dedicates his life to the search for immortality.

The problem is definitely that screens are bad for people and social media is inherently bad, not that we have handed over power in our society to rightwing silicon valley moguls with these kind of batshit crazy beliefs, and not just general power over society… power to shape how we socialize with one another online.

sigh

I mean someone like Steve Jobs was essentially the “”“best”“” case scenario of this type of person being given power in society and Steve Jobs was incredibly problematic as a person on multiple levels… including that he believed batshit crazy things.

“He annoyingly feels younger than me!” the 30-year-old tells triple j hack.

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  • rook@awful.systemsEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    I’m always afraid of thinking I know better than evolution.

    I don’t know about “knowing better”… I think I’d describe evolution as mindbogglingly stupid in ways we haven’t begin to understand yet, but quite often medical intervention does appear to be “how can I trick evolution into not killing me in some unpleasant way, without causing it to kill me in some other unpleasant way”.