Bryan Johnson

My proposition is that as entrepreneurs and investors, rather than focusing on doing good with technology, let's instead focus on building good technology.

Personally, I have always thought that anything that would help us all live longer, healthier lives is a good technology. But what I consider to be 'good' differs from what others do - sometimes significantly.

Learning about the discovery of the number zero, and its philosophical representation - nothingness - changed my orientation with transformational thinking.

Intelligence is what allows us to create forms of governance, cure disease, create art and music, discover, dream and love. Intelligence is also what decides that these things, rather than other things, are worth doing, by translating discoveries into meanings, experiences into values and values into decisions.

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.

Intelligence, in its varied forms, powers every opportunity we pursue and every problem we seek to solve. It sits upstream from everything else. It is at once the master tool and the master of all tools.