D. Scott Phoenix
1.4K posts
@fuelfive
Partner at @fiftyyears investing in deep tech and a flourishing future. Former AI founder ($250M raised, acq by Alphabet). Host of https://t.co/pcxHuL5vWg
The most important problems are unsolved because they're hard. Sometimes they're hard technically. Sometimes because of regulation. Sometimes because they're outside the Overton window. That doesn't mean the smartest people shouldn't work on those things. It's why they should.
Are we the woolly mammoths? Progress ep06 is live with @justinkan, co-founder of Twitch. Mammoths built the grassland they lived on, then changed it too fast to survive. Justin thinks we might be next. We talk AI job loss, his bet on a Mamdani-style president in 2028, and what selling Twitch for $970M didn't fix.
Are we the woolly mammoths? Progress ep06 is live with @justinkan, co-founder of Twitch. Mammoths built the grassland they lived on, then changed it too fast to survive. Justin thinks we might be next. We talk AI job loss, his bet on a Mamdani-style president in 2028, and what selling Twitch for $970M didn't fix.
"We were always a very poor imitation of a machine." Progress ep05 is live with @C_Angermayer, founder of atai Life Sciences and co-founder of @enhanced_games. We discuss why fear is the real risk of the next decade, why post-capitalism looks like a Roman Republic with robots, and why the Enhanced Games might be the Woodstock of bodily sovereignty.
A $1,000,000 WORLD RECORD SWIM! Kristian Gkolomeev wins the Men’s 50m Freestyle in 20.81s and takes home $1,000,000 bonus + $250,000 first place prize and reclaims his 50M Freestyle world record.
"You have to be willing to be vilified to build anything interesting in the world." Progress ep04 is live with @brian_armstrong, cofounder and CEO of @coinbase. We discuss why becoming AI might actually feel great, why the most unimpeachably good charity still got hit pieces, and why delaying progress kills people too.
