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Will Reddit be the last human stronghold? Progress ep03 is live with Steve Huffman, founder and CEO of @Reddit We discuss why the future looks a lot like the past, why death might actually be good design, and why scientists may one day have to apologize to the hippies. Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 01:30 Steve's weirdest idea: we should all die and be forgotten 04:37 Scientists owe the hippies an apology 05:35 Einstein sounds like a Buddhist monk 08:04 Reddit as an empathy machine 09:23 What Facebook got right, then abandoned 10:30 Cities are the only organism that scales superlinearly 12:25 Diagnosing inefficient institutions 13:35 Institutions need to die too 17:07 The policy mistake behind housing, college debt, and healthcare 18:21 America's doctor cap vs. Asia's approach 20:43 Fatherhood and the long view 22:12 Will Steve's kids have jobs? 23:38 Steve's case for Universal Basic Income 27:23 Saying please and thank you to ChatGPT 29:00 Vibe-coding a home automation bridge in two days 30:22 Scott's guilt about jailbreaking Claude

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The Silk Road made everyone rich, and then it killed half of them. Progress ep02 is live with @typesfast of @Flexport. We discuss why the global economy is as fragile as ever, what it takes for America to build again, and whether AI needs its own god.

The Silk Road made everyone rich, and then it killed half of them. Progress ep02 is live with @typesfast of @Flexport. We discuss why the global economy is as fragile as ever, what it takes for America to build again, and whether AI needs its own god.

The Silk Road made everyone rich, and then it killed half of them. Progress ep02 is live with @typesfast of @Flexport. We discuss why the global economy is as fragile as ever, what it takes for America to build again, and whether AI needs its own god.

When supply chains shut down in 2021, @typesfast rented a boat, hit the water, and tweeted what he saw in the Port of LA. The mayor changed the law that same day. On Progress, we get into tariffs, Black Death, AI religion, and how to make manufacturing high status again.