The Fursuit of Happiness with Kiko Zang

You have a bigger thesis that honest human opinion could become incredibly valuable data in the AI era we live in now.

Why do you think that?

I don't think we need knowledge anymore.

To be honest, I don't think we need facts anymore because AI will just tell us those facts.

Right.

So in that world where we no longer have to like trivia is not going to be fun anymore.

Right.

Because everyone knows all of those trivia knowledge and answers.

So what end up setting us apart is not going to be like, oh, this person is like, quote unquote, smarter than us.

It's going to be this person has a different opinion, a unique take, or a belief that's shaped by their experience that might differentiate them from the rest.

So I think discernment, taste, judgment, beliefs, all of these intangibles, if we can find a way to quantify them, to measure them, to standardize them in a way that's never been done before, that becomes a really powerful data set.

Not only because it's helpful for AI to understand, But also because we're currently going through this period where our soft skills are like at a pretty low point in the younger generations.

It's interesting because people are gravitating more towards offline events, right? They want like genuine connection.

But then you get there and no one knows how to talk to each other.

So then they rely on AI to reteach them how to be human.

And our data set ends up helping AI be human and teach us how to be more human-like.

How do you think about kind of balancing building something commercial? Every time you say data set, I just think money, right? Like somebody paying for the data set.

So how do you think about the commercial viability of that versus, you know, or tension against building something that you actually believe is good for your friends and for people in general?

Yeah.

Like I said before, this is not, to be honest, like in the immediate term, I'm not sure if this idea is like the most commercially viable product that I can build.

I think there are many other options, right? If I really wanted to make money, I made of, I will build a DeFi product, build a purchase rating, right? And then I'll pivot into, you know, something else in a few years.

But I may never get as lucky, right? I keep going back to, I may never get as lucky.

I want to do the thing that I want.

I went through life really just wanting to find myself, to return to myself.

And I thought being misunderstood and being in these new environments was such an isolating and unique experience to me.