Roy E. Bahat

Like today I realized in a group chat, I am a Rawlsian accelerationist. r/acc ftw

Carissa is at Oxford and this talk is before her book comes out. We're talking with her Tuesday, April 7 at 9a PT on Zoom. RSVP: luma.com/8nefmidq

Book talk next week... with a philosopher of technology, @CarissaVeliz. Her new book, Prophecy, is about how people have used technology to claim they see the future -- then (oracles) and now (AI).

@spurpura I love knowing that. What does she think of the quality of care they provide? I'm just curious how representative it is...

@roybahat Roy, my wife is an ER doc and she loves the Pitt. She couldn’t watch ER but enjoys the new one.

The more I watch The Pitt, the more I want to know from ER doctors: how good is the medical care they provide on that show? Typical for an ER?

While social media is polarising, evidence suggests AI may nudge people towards the centre. This holds true of all studied models. Grok is more right-leaning than other models, but also has depolarising effects. By @jburnmurdoch.

@AndreyFradkin @jamescham OMG you anticipated my not-newsletter This is for fundraising dinners but many things still apply hostadinner.org

Spurred by doing more dinner organizing, does anyone have tips on how to host topic themed dinners, balancing a common conversation, staying on topic, and having fun? (Essays or book recs appreciated)

Introducing Chroma Context-1, a 20B parameter search agent. > pushes the pareto frontier of agentic search > order of magnitude faster > order of magnitude cheaper > Apache 2.0, open-source

@trychroma #proudinvestor

"Do you want to proceed?" Most useful phrase of 2026

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Join if you're figuring out what to do next, or you have someone in your life trying to figure it out, or if you just want to hear someone who's thought harder about this than most... luma.com/svvtxja3

Before @jodikantor became a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, she got kicked off her college newspaper. So she knows it's not a straight line. And we're hosting Jodi on Wednesday, April 1 at 10am PT to talk about her new book... How to Start: Discovering Your Life's Work.

🛑Stop romanticizing the need for "humans in the loop." @JamesCham of @BloombergBeta joins me to challenge #AI orthodoxy: why mathematical consistency beats "noisy" humans and who’s responsible when AI fails. 🎧podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ai-… #FutureOfWork #ethics #philosophy #podcast

Prescient, in 2021! (Though computers are, in fact, somewhat inolved.) From Benjamín Labatut's book, When We Cease to Understand the World en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_We_C… TY @ADehlendorf for the rec

@loriberenberg Even more so: cbc.ca/radio/asithapp…

this is how i've personified claude in my head

Claude .md ? he’s a doctor too?

@Bencera @davemorin On your way to also.roybahat.com/the-billion-do…. (Only been waiting 11 years but we are almost there!)

About to hit $4.5M run rate. Still 1 founder + AI. Zero employees. Honest moment: this past week almost broke me. No one prepares you for what PMF actually feels like. Every infra partner hitting rate limits. Every bug that could happen, happened. Investors throwing big numbers at me. Customers flooding every channel. All at once. I went silent. Stopped tweeting, stopped LinkedIn, stopped podcasts, stopped growth. Just me and my AI agents, fixing things one by one. Here's what I learned: everything is solvable with AI. Every single thing. I'm building Polsia so every solopreneur gets access to the same tools keeping me alive right now. If I can survive this alone, I can package it for everyone. The future is solopreneur + AI. I'm living at the edge so you don't have to.

Yes, the AI vampire is real. But what if I get bitten and become immortal...

Innovation ecosystems are inherited. There is a spiritual succession that passes from one place to another. They are built from first principles, not copied from playbooks or slogans. @NaithanJones is a three-time founder and former a16z partner who landed in Silicon Valley in 2011 and moved to Austin during the pandemic. One conversation. A ton of fun rabbit holes. Agenda 0:00 Intro + Silicon Valley 2011 and the Web 2 Gold Rush 9:17 How The Social Network Changed the Talent Pipeline 11:16 Inside the a16z Partner Meeting 14:48 Spiritual Succession from Arthur Rock to Austin 18:06 The 2021 Hype Was Real, Just Early 20:26 California and Delaware's Self-Inflicted Wounds 23:43 The 200-Mile Radius 26:26 Permission to Build and the Sunlight Metaphor 30:20 Foundational Models Belong to SF 34:48 Third Places and Connective Tissue 42:29 The Storytelling Gap 45:44 Six-Month Vesting in the AI Era 49:04 Seedance, Suno, and the Creation-Consumption Collapse 54:59 The Barbell of Synthetic Media and Analog Craft 59:27 Copyright, IP, and the Entertainment Layer Cake

@Jason_A_Scharf @NaithanJones #proudinvestor in @NaithanJones