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sethbannon
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Seth Bannon.
Founding Partner, Fifty Years (http://fiftyyears.com/). Former founder now supporting founders making something civilization needs (climate, synthetic biology, food tech, health, etc).
Twitter: @sethbannon
I write at http://sethbannon.com
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- Amazing. Also neat that we may actually learn to treat human infections better after this discovery.
"Erik Frank. Laurent Keller also adds that these findings 'have medical implications because the primary pathogen in ant’s wounds, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, is also a leading cause of infection in humans, with several strains being resistant to antibiotics'."
Love imagining leading scientists from big pharma rushing to investigate the compound cocktails ants are using to make the next blockbuster drug.
- If we could have solved the really big problems that remain with SaaS apps, we probably would have already. We're really good at building them. Most of the really big problems the world is facing require really hard solutions. Often this involves commercializing core research (like the foundation model companies) or building in atoms and not just bits. The sheer amount of talent and money going into SaaS feels like a massive misallocation of resources.
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- So this is a common argument against longevity -- that dictators would remain in power for even longer.
A simple counterpoint: imagine a world were we all did live until 500 years old. And there were some bad dictators in that world. If you lived in that world, would you suggest cutting everyone's lifespan to 80 years old to diminish the power of those dictators?
- This is huge. Yes it's in dogs but for the first time the FDA has said lifespan extension is an acceptable endpoint for a therapeutic! This could help open the floodgates for longevity therapeutics and will be written about in the history books.
- This is why for domains like science, tools like Elicit are so needed [1].
They've been doing some interesting work on factored cognition to avoid these sort of hallucinations [2].
1: https://elicit.com/ 2: https://blog.elicit.com/factored-verification-detecting-and-...
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https://www.fiftyyears.com/
We also run a founder foundry that helps scientists and engineers start startups: https://www.fiftyyears.com/5050
We're hiring for many roles:
1/ Engineers for our product team, which builds tools to help us better support founders.
2/ A Head of Marketing, to help us help our founders better tell their stories.
3/ Former founders for the partnerships team, to help mentor our portfolio founders.
4/ Opportunistically for other roles as well.
ONSITE in San Francisco and London.
Email join AT 50y DOT com