Will Reddit be the last human stronghold? Progress ep03 is live with Steve Huffman, founder and CEO of @Reddit We discuss why the future looks a lot like the past, why death might actually be good design, and why scientists may one day have to apologize to the hippies. Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 01:30 Steve's weirdest idea: we should all die and be forgotten 04:37 Scientists owe the hippies an apology 05:35 Einstein sounds like a Buddhist monk 08:04 Reddit as an empathy machine 09:23 What Facebook got right, then abandoned 10:30 Cities are the only organism that scales superlinearly 12:25 Diagnosing inefficient institutions 13:35 Institutions need to die too 17:07 The policy mistake behind housing, college debt, and healthcare 18:21 America's doctor cap vs. Asia's approach 20:43 Fatherhood and the long view 22:12 Will Steve's kids have jobs? 23:38 Steve's case for Universal Basic Income 27:23 Saying please and thank you to ChatGPT 29:00 Vibe-coding a home automation bridge in two days 30:22 Scott's guilt about jailbreaking Claude