Does our achievement society destroy the erotic in our lives and relationships? Are we optimizing and measuring and calculating and burning out to the extent that we erase the Other or any alterity that is inspiring and incites our desire? Does technology eliminate distance between people, albeit leveling negative (lacking) difference that cannot be commodified? Han refers to the optimization in Fifty Shades of Grey, and I bring up the example of Bryan Johnson (although I think I disagree with Han on both).
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Bryan Johnson (born 1977) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, writer and author. He is the founder and CEO of Kernel, a company that can monitor and record brain activity, and OS Fund, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage science and technology companies. He was also founder, chairman and CEO of Braintree, a company which specializes in mobile and web payment systems for ecommerce companies. Braintree acquired Venmo in 2012 for $26.2 million; the combined entity was acquired by PayPal for $800 million in 2013. Johnson announced Project Blueprint on October 13, 2021. The project aims to measure and maximally reverse the quantified biological age of over 70 of his own organs. Johnson claims that the project has so far resulted in an epigenetic age reversal of 5.1 years and that he now has the heart of a 37-year-old.
Fifty Shades of Grey is a 2011 erotic romance novel by British author E. L. James. It became the first instalment in the Fifty Shades novel series that follows the deepening relationship between a college graduate, Anastasia Steele, and a young business magnate, Christian Grey. It is notable for its explicitly erotic scenes featuring elements of sexual practices involving BDSM. Originally self-published as an e-book and print-on-demand in June 2011, the publishing rights to the novel were acquired by Vintage Books in March 2012. It has been translated into 52 languages and set a record in the United Kingdom as the fastest-selling paperback of all time.
Lex Fridman is a Russian-American computer scientist, podcaster, and artificial intelligence researcher. He is a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast, a podcast and KZfaq series.
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