i don't think the biggest problem with our educational system is a technology one. It's a human one, for sure. There are a lot of things that require human connection. Why if the tec world found education so hard crack, why can’t the tech world not convince parents to love and paratize their children? We have a perfect diagnostic for infectious disease unless it's a pryon,. we can just sequence everything and we've a perfect diagnostic.
Founders aren’t superheroes, says Sam Altman.They may play extreme sports, respond to emails within seconds, and start billion-dollar companies, but they are rarely the product of extraordinary circumstance. In fact, they tend to be solidly upper-middle class, reasonably smart, and with loving parents.
So would Sam fund Peter Parker? What about Bruce Wayne?
Tyler and Sam discuss these burning questions and more, including what’s wrong with San Francisco, Napoleon’s underrated skill, nuclear energy, the greatest invention of the Industrial Revolution, his rant against coworking spaces, UBI and AGI, risk and regret, optimism and beauty, and why venture capitalists don’t have superpowers either.
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Recorded January 28th, 2019 Other ways to connect