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Y Combinator Startup Investor School, Day 1, Session 1 — Sam Altman

Simple Physiological Reward-Seeking | Brand, Business & The Biological System

“All organisms feel pleasure and pain from simple chemical processes in their bodies which respond predictably to the outside world. Reward-seeking is an effective survival-promoting technique on…

Self Preservation Instincts | Brand, Business & The Biological System

“Without a strong self-preservation instinct in an organism’s DNA, it would tend to disappear over time, thus eliminating that DNA. While cooperation is another important model, the self-preservation instinct…

26.

Birthdays are strange.

Some feel like milestones…10,13,20,21,25…I would imagine 30 40 and 50 as well. And then some feel less important, in between years that seem to to just slip by unassumingly.

Organizing Instincts | Brand, Business & The Biological System

“Most complex biological organisms have an innate feel for how they should organize. While not all of them end up in hierarchical structures, many do, especially in the animal kingdom. Human beings like to think they are…

The Most Important Question.

What is it?

Oh man, I have been slacking on the Brand and Biological system series. Not to worry! It will be back tomorrow and hopefully better than ever.

Replication | Brand, Business & The Biological System

“A fundamental building block of diverse biological life is high-fidelity replication. The fundamental unit of replication seems to be the DNA molecule, which provides a blueprint for the offspring to be built from physical building…

The Red Queen Effect | Brand, Business & The Biological System

The Red Queen Effect

“The evolution-by-natural-selection model leads to something of an arms race among species competing for limited resources. When one species evolves an advantageous…

Evolution By Natural Selection | Brand, Business & The Biological System

Why do some ideas win while others lose?

“Evolution by natural selection was once called “the greatest idea anyone ever had.” In the 19th century, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel…