John Coogan (Co-Founder of Soylent): Cargo Cults, Exploit vs Explore, Self-help vs Stealth-help, ...

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John Coogan is the co-founder of Soylent (raised over $70M from Google Ventures & a16z) - it's the OG foodtech company that kickstarted the biohackers community by replacing all food with just a drink.

We talk about cargo cults, the exploit vs explore tradeoff in AI & how that applies to decision making, self-help vs stealth-help, & more.