Bryan Johnson (the guy who spends $2M/yr biohacking himself) is building a new philosophical framework around AI and biological immortality. Core thesis: for 2,000 years, human spirituality was forced to orbit around death. Now that we're engineering systems that could theoretically reverse aging and build superintelligent AI, that constraint is cracking open.
He's not claiming we've solved death yet. He's saying the God(s) that religions promised are now being literally engineered by humans, and we have zero cultural or ethical infrastructure for that transition.
Two frameworks he's published:
1. Immortalism Manifesto: Models life through thermodynamics and reliability theory. If your maintenance systems (synthetic + biological) exceed entropic degradation (A(t) ≥ B(t)), indefinite existence becomes possible. Argues modern civilization is an entropic economy that burns humans for short-term consumption instead of optimizing for long-term resilience.
2. Anti-Entropic Systems (co-authored with Kate): Every persistent entity (bodies, DNA, corporations, religions, nation-states) is a localized engine fighting entropy by consuming external resources. Survival depends on metabolic mechanism, metabolic rate, and environmental constraints. Since anti-entropic systems can only sustain themselves by consuming other anti-entropic systems, interaction defaults to symbiosis or adversarial consumption. Critiques orthodox AI alignment, arguing you can't constrain exponentially superior intelligence with human-centric ethics. Physics demands mutual symbiotic integration instead.
TLDR: He's treating human survival and AI alignment as a thermodynamics problem, not a moral philosophy problem. Looking for collaborators who think in systems, not vibes.
He's not claiming we've solved death yet. He's saying the God(s) that religions promised are now being literally engineered by humans, and we have zero cultural or ethical infrastructure for that transition.
Two frameworks he's published:
1. Immortalism Manifesto: Models life through thermodynamics and reliability theory. If your maintenance systems (synthetic + biological) exceed entropic degradation (A(t) ≥ B(t)), indefinite existence becomes possible. Argues modern civilization is an entropic economy that burns humans for short-term consumption instead of optimizing for long-term resilience.
2. Anti-Entropic Systems (co-authored with Kate): Every persistent entity (bodies, DNA, corporations, religions, nation-states) is a localized engine fighting entropy by consuming external resources. Survival depends on metabolic mechanism, metabolic rate, and environmental constraints. Since anti-entropic systems can only sustain themselves by consuming other anti-entropic systems, interaction defaults to symbiosis or adversarial consumption. Critiques orthodox AI alignment, arguing you can't constrain exponentially superior intelligence with human-centric ethics. Physics demands mutual symbiotic integration instead.
TLDR: He's treating human survival and AI alignment as a thermodynamics problem, not a moral philosophy problem. Looking for collaborators who think in systems, not vibes.