Reddit's CEO on why 'we're meant to die' and other things he's right about

Steve Huffman is the Co-founder and CEO of Reddit, a network of online communities that is now one of the internet's primary engines for conversation, culture, and collective knowledge. At 22, Steve left Reddit, came back in 2015 when the company was in crisis, then took it public. Today, Reddit has two billion monthly visitors and five quarters of real profitability. In this conversation, Steve outlines his unfashionable argument for a future where nothing really changes: that human nature, community, and mortality are constants the future won't (and shouldn't) override.In today's episode, we also discuss:• Steve's belief that it's a good thing we are destined to die and be forgotten• The reason Steve says please and thank you to ChatGPT• Why scientists will eventually have to apologize to the hippies• What Reddit's two billion monthly visitors reveal about human empathy• Why Steve believes his kids will have jobs, money will still exist, and the human need to create will outlast AGI• The single policy mistake behind housing, college debt, and healthcare• Why we still need the IRS• Why cities are the only organism that scales superlinearly, and what that means for Reddit• Why Steve is pro Universal Basic IncomeReferenced• Altered Carbon• American Medical Association (AMA)• Bill Gates• ChatGPT• Craigslist• Crestron• DeepMind• DOGE•