The Future of Technology

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Starlink and AI is going to lift a couple of billion people into knowledge workers, boom in a year or two. Every human on the planet has access to an army of assistants that can just like do all this stuff. There's just so much stuff that we do that doesn't really create value. You do have to do your chores. Yeah. All these kind of like digital day to day chores that now we can just, you know, Siri will do it. It'll be great for everybody.

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Today’s show:

Reddit CEO and Co-Founder Steve Huffman joins Jason to discuss building a platform that serves Reddit's community (13:33), addresses the situation with third-party apps and moderators (35:00), and much more!

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(00:00) Reddit CEO Steve Huffman joins Jason

(2:40) The evolution of Reddit and its community

(4:10) The tailwinds powering Reddit and Steve's thoughts on speech mitigation

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(13:33) The Reddit "Keep it real" ethos and the importance of allowing open debate

(17:47) Authoritarianism and challenging orthodoxies

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(25:44) Steve's optimism for AI and why this is only the beginning

(35:00) The response to Reddit's API use in various LLMs

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(39:29) Going in-depth on Reddit's situation and API history