society

3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 15, 2019 by Chris Best · across every show →

Everything said about society, oldest first

May 15, 2019 positive
Insight
Best: Market failure causes society to underinvest in cultural creators
“We think there's basically a market failure where all of society would be richer if there was more efficient mechanisms to like allocate more resources to creative people that are making kind of culture writ large”
Chris Best May 15, 2019 ▶ 6:25 Monetizing Podcasts and Newsletters - Chris Best of Substack and Jonathan Gill of Backtracks · Y Combinator
Sep 1, 2022 negative
Insight
Seibel: Zero-sum players just harvest the excess capital of positive-sum builders
“It's so obvious the society we lived in, we live in today, was built by people who were playing positive some games. So what it really is, is, like, those people created, like, a little bit of excess capital That the zero sum game people are like harvesting. T…”
Michael Seibel Sep 1, 2022 ▶ 7:53 What Basic Game Theory Teaches Us About Startups · Y Combinator
Aug 8, 2025 negative
Opinion
Field: AI romantic partners are 'actively poisonous' to society
“I think AI boyfriends and girlfriends, if developed and allowed to exist is a societal self-owned. I think it's like actively poisonous to society if this becomes the primary, a primary mode of relationship.”
Dylan Field Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 30:05 Dylan Field: Scaling Figma and the Future of Design · Y Combinator
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