Now this news is everywhere and people seem to be mocking him, but he is a good guy.

He's hubristic and selfish. None of his "research" is going to benefit anyone (himself included), making this essentially a huge waste of time and resources. Bryan will die just like all the rest of us, despite being very rich and self-obsessed. He could spend his enormous wealth on supporting real research and proper studies on real diseases that hurt lots of people. Instead he's acting like just another huckster promising a fountain of youth. He does this using bombastic terms and taboo methods (e.g. using his son as a blood boy), in a way that's calculated to direct enormous public attention towards himself. The science he advocates for is sketchy at best and the results of all his "experiments" will tell us nothing because we can't reproduce his methods (his program allegedly costs >$1M per year), nothing is blinded or controlled, and N=1. He's a bad person who uses bad methods to glorify himself and now he probably gave himself an autoimmune disease. He deserves to be mocked.

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Melatonic 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

He's actually Bio"hacked" himself though ! Most people just take supplements.

Isn't getting "hacked" suppose to be a bad thing ?

	▲	AndrewDucker an hour ago \| parent [-]
		For someone on "hacker news" you're showing a surprising lack of knowledge of the multiple meanings of the word "hack" in computer circles.

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Simon_O_Rourke 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Well said, he got what was coming to him too.

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neonstatic 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> He could spend his enormous wealth on supporting real research and proper studies on real diseases that hurt lots of people

There we go again. There's always that one guy in the crowd, who knows better what you should be spending your money on. Also, that guy has the moral right to tell you. He is a really good person, you know! So you should listen! You should also thank him.

> He deserves to be mocked.

Just look how good this guy is.

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bglazer 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yes exactly, there are good and bad things to spend money on. This is a bad way to spend money for the reasons I explained above.

	▲	neonstatic 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		What he spends his money on is none of your business.

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wonnage 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Turns out that when you amass a significant portion of society’s resources then society will be interested in what you do with them.

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dpoloncsak 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Fwiw, people mocked him long before this news broke. People aren't hating on him as a result of his diagnosis, just found a new (and admittedly ironic) point to pick at.

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grumdan 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> but he is a good guy

That definitely doesn't seem to be the case, especially if you look beyond his bio-hacking endeavors. His treatment of employees and ex-partners seems pretty horrible: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/technology/bryan-johnson-...

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garciasn 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

He’s unfathomably rich and unfathomably stupid; doing insane shit to his body and actively recommending others do the same and that’s why he’s being mocked.

“Good guy” or not, he’s paying the price for playing with fire.

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theplumber 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

At least he walks the walk. I won’t say he is stupid. You see stupid people(a big chunk of the human population) looking for immortality in more stupid things so I would place him way above these folks

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hoppp 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There is no proof that his autoimmune disease was caused by him "playing with fire", it's more likely to be genetic.

	▲	garciasn 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I didn’t say they were related. I said he’s doing insane shit to himself because he has the money to do so. But it’s that he recommends others do the same and that’s stupid.

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Waterluvian 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I mean, you never know for sure. It's all just PR and messaging. Especially from a tech CEO with money. The thing that I struggle to reconcile is how much he's been involving his teenage son in this experimentation. That's a pretty gigantic red flag for me, I guess.

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everyone 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Being good and wealthy are mutually exclusive.

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neonstatic 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I hope you are writing this from a really poor place, like a Brazilian favela. People there must be really good. Why would you not live with them? I am certain you are not some hypocrite, who lives in an affluent, evil place. That would really disappoint me, because I really want to believe you are not full of BS.

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khalic 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Nothing in his statement talked about the poor being better, just that every rich person becomes so by taking from others.

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neonstatic 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

By that logic, every poor person becomes so by giving to others. Neither statement is true. They equated being rich with being evil, which is plain stupid and I don't understand why you are defending it.

	▲	hoppp 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Really, people have a specific "hate heuristic" and whatever triggers that they will hate. It can't really be reasoned with because it's a subconscious reflex. Heuristics overwrite reasoning for most people because they don't consume much resources in the brain, the cheaper path is selected by default.
	▲	somenameforme 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I agree with you, but I think it's also easy to see where people like the person you're responding to are coming from. Corporations have become pretty nasty in modern times. It's no longer really about offering the best product for the best price, but instead coercing and exploiting people so much as possible to squeeze every single penny out of them, offering as little as possible in return, and then somehow turning everything into rent. Age is often a factor here. If you're older then you've known a different world of capitalism than what's being put on display in contemporary times. By contrast for younger people, this sketchiness is all they've ever known.

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hoppp 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

He sold his company to another company. How is that taking from others?

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elzbardico 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Some of worst evilest motherfuckers I knew were dirty poor, and some of them were filthy rich.

Evil Motherfuckerness seems to be uniformly distributed across the social strata.

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neonstatic 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I agree. I think it has nothing to do with how much a person has and everything with who they choose to be.

Unfortunately, stupid communist ideas are very popular on this website. Say "eat the rich" and they will clap.

	▲	tavavex 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		A single amoral poor person doesn't matter because they can't do anything to you short of physical violence. A single amoral ultra-wealthy person can and will make sure everyone plays by their rules, they are unstoppable forces in society. Not every evil person ends up being rich, but the incentives in our society basically ensure that past a certain point of extreme wealth we're selecting for the most ruthless and self-centered people who know how to play the game. Even an initially good person that managed to climb the ranks on merit or real innovation eventually has to make the choice between ethics and getting more money, and we know which way they tend to go. HN is/was a bastion of venture capital and big tech. This is literally Y Combinator. Maybe reflect on why the tides may be slightly shifting away from idealist absolutism even in a place like this. You'll probably find genuine grievances and criticism instead of Red Scare cardboard cutouts that you'd look so good taking down.

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twothreeone 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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	▲	ksd482 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That was unkind and unnecessary. Please keep these kinds of comments out of HN.