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#55 - Tim Urban of Wait But Why

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

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The Barrier in the Fermi Post

Fermi: We're wired to think about a world when nothing changed ever. When someone says, this is gonna be the future, everything's gonna be different, why is that naive? "Tech is a monster God. It is on the horizon running towards us right now," he said. Fermi: How do we get past our short-term monkey mind to care about more people when we developing technology? 'You don't try to change humans fundamentally. That's not easy'

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