Human Beings
topic on 5 shows · 11 statements across 11 episodes
Masters of Scale
the Startup Ideas Podcast
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath
Capital Allocators
the a16z Podcast
11 statements about Human Beings, every show
Isenberg: Best pet startup ideas replicate human health and wellness trends
“And for people who are trying to find ideas for their pets, one of the good ways is just look at what people are doing for human beings.”
Isenberg: Humans using mice and keyboards will soon become the minority
“We bought mouses and keyboards, and we had human beings actually going and clicking and doing things, right? That's, you know, going to be the minority, as weird as it is to say that.”
Harari: Humanity is close to AI becoming Earth's most powerful entity
“I don't think we have reached that point in 2026, but I think we are close to the point when the most important, powerful, if you want, entity on the planet is no longer a human being, Or a group of human beings, but an AI.”
Hoffman: Humans are better defined as Homo Techne than Homo Sapiens
“Cause of the classic classification of human beings is homo sapiens. I actually think we're homo techne because it's that iteration through technology.”
Isenberg: Current LLMs will beat human beings on 95% of tasks
“Maybe this is obvious, but artificial intelligence is smarter than human beings. We're at a stage where human beings versus the current LLNs are gonna lose on 95% of tasks.”
Isenberg: Software tools will take an increasing share of costs over humans
“So I think that's what's going to happen is these software tools from a percent of your costs are just going to increase versus human beings.”
Raskin: Whales have transmitted vocal culture for 34 million years
“It turns out whales have been passing down culture for like Thirty-four million years, vocally. Human beings have been doing it for what, like a 100,300 thousand? So this is a culture that has lasted longer, 85 times longer than our entire species.”
Isenberg: Human community managers have far more biases than AI bots
“If you compare a bot to a human being, I think a human being has way more biases than a bot.”
Hoffman: Within 10 years society will want exclusively autonomous vehicles
“Like, I actually think that within 10 years, we will strongly want a world in which it's only autonomous vehicles on the road and not human beings.”
Duke: Quitting at the objectively right time usually feels way too early
“Usually if you quit at the moment that it's objectively correct, It will feel like you're quitting way, way, way too early, and that's the thing that we need to watch out for, because as human beings, we just generally stick to things too long”