#2501 - Marc Andreessen

The Joe Rogan experience Good to see you sir great to be back. Thank you So we were just talking about this wild crime spree that happened this weekend in Austin So seems like it was was it teenagers that were doing this? Yeah? 15 and 17 years old and what was the purpose just going crazy?

I think so Yeah, they stole cars and still guns and switch cars and they shot me shot like 10 different occasions at least one person's in critical condition They shot multiple people So you were saying that the reason why they had a hard time catching them is because of they had flock cameras in Austin Yeah, but then they shut those cameras off for political reasons, right? Yes, yes, please explain that. Yeah, so these guys are driving around cars and yeah, there's switching cars whatever Yeah, and they went to like a dozen locations and like I don't try shooting at buildings and people in houses and all kinds of stuff So we're just gonna run around so there's a system called flock Which is one of our companies and what they do it kind of like in the movies you take all the municipal cameras and try The cameras and everything and you feed them into an AI and AI is able to first find a license plate in real time So you can find that but second you can actually find a car even if you don't have a license plate You can find like this thing marking on the car and track the car and so this thing is deployed It's sold to city governments. It's used all over the country.

It's all crimes every day We get reports on you know car jacks with kids in the back seat and their blacks get safe They track them down So a lot of tons of cities have this and they love it in cities like Austin with the intense politics You know, they're running to backlash on privacy and surveillance concerns And so Austin had flock and then turned it off and as a consequence They were not able to find these guys for whatever several days And then what happened that the weight breaking news today is these guys drove into some adjacent town You know up against Austin and flock is was live in that town And so flock tagged them the minute they drove into that that town and then they caught the guys subsequent to that The mayor your mayor in Austin of your mayor and your chief of police gave a press conference and said we really need to rethink this Because it's it's crazy to have the ability to solve crimes and stop crimes and not be able to use it Yeah, so the concern is mass surveillance, right? And the concern is that someone's gonna abuse this and use AI for nefarious purposes, right? Like what nefarious purposes would that be? Yeah, so this is a system this is a system that could be used in bad ways Right?

So bad people could use in bad ways And so if you had a corrupt, you know, chief of police and you know, he had some personal entanglement thing and you wanted to track a You know, X whatever or if you the mayor wanted to you know, do this to terrorize your political opponents or whatever like if you had, you know Crap city officials then they could use for bad things Wouldn't that be traceable though? Like when that like isn't there like a blockchain pull that sucker? So it's not on your chin push it for a little bit. Yeah, is there a blockchain for flocks?

So you could know who's doing what and how it's happening. So someone couldn't abuse it Is it possible to have circumvent? Yeah, it could but this is like the standard Yes, and this you know, they log everything and I'm sure there's records of everything But you know, it's like anything else is why it's like I'll have to get a warrant before this or somebody's house, right? Right?

There's always a question like what is the legal authority and what are the safeguards of protectors kind of thing? But but to take so I think there's a completely legitimate question which is how should that all be designed? What should be the controls what should be the penalties if somebody abuses it? You know, there's a lot but then on the other side of it is like are you really gonna give up the entire thing, right?

And disarm yourself in the face of what's been a big national crime for a long time? So the other thing is that the city Chicago is the one that's pushed this even further So there's an older system that's deployed in many cities called shots bar Shot what's it called? Shot spotter shots barter shots barter shot spotter shot spotter. Oh shot spotter.

Oh shot spotter It's like spot spot somebody shooting spot somebody very German Sounds very like several very not Several lots yeah on top so shot spotters an older system that works very well It's deployed in many cities and what it is totally different system What it is is they put these these precision microphones on top of the city and then when a gunshot goes off They're able to instantly triangulate that a gunshot has gone off and specifically where the gunshot went off This has two two big benefits benefit number one is you have a better chance of catching the perpetrator because you can respond to the gunshot You don't have to wait for somebody to call it in or if somebody calls it in number two if somebody's been shot and they're bleeding in the street You can immediately roll the ambulance location and you can you can say live And so historically it's considered a double win Chicago got so wrapped up on these political issues of things also Not only do they not have flack I also turn off their shots by her system voluntarily And so people now get shot in Chicago and they bleed out on the street and nobody knows and nobody cares And what is the argument that they make that that that is? So the so I was saying there's maybe two there's the civil libertarian argument Which is all around surveillance and abuse and control and you know all these things and like I say I think that's a very good argument and I would say there's like the whole argument right which is that the argument goes the American criminal justice system is clearly biased in favor of some demographic groups and get other demographic groups And if you have automated systems like shots bladder or flock or but it's anything comes up with like traffic cameras that automatically give out Speaking tickets that those will disproportionately affect as a people in society and disadvantaged groups and so therefore they are racist They are racist technologies enforcing a racist system boy the problem with that the problem with that argument is the victims of violent crime Or disproportionately also likely to be from those same as those groups, and so Well politics are really fun. Yes, the other problem with a lot of this is there's a large chunk of people that are gonna immediately Think that even this mass shooting was organized by flock so that flock could get reinstated in Austin to bring in the surveillance state Like this I guarantee you 100% there's a group of people listening to this right now saying oh And reasons to show Rogan's shilling for flock. This is what they're doing.

They're trying to get to the mass surveillance, you know This is Automatically when there's a situation like this any kind of a mass shooting people think it's a false flag It's is this is where we're at how Chicago organizers managed to rid the city of shot spotter Controversial police surveillance tech is often inaccurate according to research allowed activists to launch a fact-based campaign and a political model for organizers in other cities, aha So they're saying it's inaccurate so what it is and again what it's directional microphones right and so it goes off it Trangulates on a location. It's you know, I look at it I'm also bouncing off buildings, right? So there's a lot of echo and I'm sure you get down I'm sure you get that effect nevertheless, you know when a shot went off a shot went off it went off in this general area I would assume we're not involved in shots water I don't know for sure I would send this point it's probably down to like it's probably pretty accurate at the level of block a street It's probably generally quite accurate beyond that Right, so exactly right. I mean, I think exactly what you said which is like at least, you know a shot went off and if you had both of those things This episode is brought to you by uber eats hockey seasons here and uber eats is delivering game-day deals on favorites like wings pizza fries and snacks And you can order more than food like gear to rep your team or fresh batteries for the remote when your watch party gets hungry Or you just need anything order in and keep everyone's attention on the ice score great deals on uber eats all season long because hockey is for the hungry Terms apply product availability varies by region see app for details This episode is brought to you by square space if you're thinking about building a website You should try square space.

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I mean there's a constant shootings going on in Chicago and enormous does every weekend an enormous death hole and people are very custom to guns going off Not only that people are very custom to shooting guns if people are accustomed to guns going off that must mean that people are shooting those guns And they're getting very custom accustomed to doing that So then you've got people that shoot people and then get in a car and drive away and then the cops come There's no evidence that means nothing one of the things we've learned when you deal with Politicians in particular that want to talk about crime statistics like crime is down Incorrect crime reporting is down. And especially in Los Angeles my friends in Los Angeles who still live there who deal with break-ins and home Invasions and cars being robbed they read those statistics or they hear a politician saying that crime is down They're like what the fuck are you talking about? No, no one calls 911 because if you do you just get put on hold it lasts forever No one comes they do come it's hours late. No one's coming to save you.

No one calls They just accept it. It's not just goes the worst people leave their car doors open They leave the hatch open on their cars to let you know there's nothing in there. Please don't break my windows My car is here. Oh crime's down.

No, it's not down. No crime is more prevalent than ever before. It's just crime reporting is useless Well, yeah, if you know that you're not gonna get you back up from what happens in a system If you know the criminals are gonna get convicted then you know they're not gonna get prosecuted if they're not gonna get arrested If they're not gonna get arrested, they're not gonna get investigated. Yeah, and this is I mean I live I have time your San Francisco and have time in LA Oh boy Everything is 100 is 100% true by the other scandal by the way just kind of also came out I think last week was Washington DC has been they got caught the police got caught faking crime statistics.

Yes This is very important. Yeah, just like overtly up to senior levels of the Washington Washington DC Police Department and a whole bunch of people got You know fired and died, right? This is very recent. Just like flat out faking the numbers and it's like anything It's like anything else which is if you there's no thing which is if you measure it is no longer good incentive It's no longer good motivation because it's just it's like great inflation It's just the temptation is so high to monkey with the numbers Yeah, and so in Washington at least they were criminally monkey with the numbers it raises the question whether that's happening in these other cities Well, also Washington didn't the mayor actually thank Trump for bringing in the National Guard Which is crazy you have a Democrat mayor who said thank you to Donald Trump for bringing in the national Which everybody thought was an outrage like you bring in the National Guard into the cities are gonna militarize please force them So thank you because crime dropped off a cliff So I've also been spending a lot of time in DC.

So what was happening in DC? So my friends in DC basically say they turn the city from a place You couldn't be outside at night all of a sudden you can just walk around and it's fine And then what happened is like the violence basically went to zero like in most of the neighborhoods like extremely quickly And so what happened was you have all these people walking around at night for the first time in years and you know They're just like oh, there's a couple guys in National Guard. This is great over take a picture with them. This is fantastic Okay, so then it gets reported as it gets reported in the press as the National Guard is not doing anything All they're doing is sitting around taking you know, so they're self-heasetourists Oh god, I hate the press You know, they don't need to be here that doing anything, right?

Why would someone report that? But can't we just come to an agreement that crime is bad? Yes, regardless of political party. Can't we agree?

We all want to be safe? Let me give you one more thing and we move off this So the other thing you mentioned is yeah, the drive-by shootings the guy drives away You know there's another crime the other thing if you talk to cops if you talk to cops it work in high-crime areas or people who live in High-crime areas which I have in both cases A lot of people in high-crime areas do not want to ever talk to the cops about things that happen because it's gang violence There's the very active threat 100 stitches if don't get stitches they get morgues 100% Yeah, and so if you if you can't if you're relying on eyewitness reports you don't self crimes, right? And so you need objective data, so if you're criminal it's pretty awesome environment. That's great And by the way, I was like, yeah, not tonight Like LA has been absolutely For this kind of behavior.

I think the gangs in LA have been going wild for the last five years just like completely unconstrained I mean, it's been it's been crazy I just don't understand why anybody would want that. Do you ever put your tin foil hat on and go and what what are they trying to do here? So the the I know you wear a tin foil hat every now and then we talked about nuclear bombs You know, well known fact that all the nuclear tests have got to get fixed. Um, so I mean look They got fake.

I know you're a believer in the official story. Oh, you know a little bit. Yeah, yeah, you believe it with a BDSS so So I look at that one wonders if there's a political motivation, right? Which is basically to get the responsible people out of the city to be able to change the voting patterns, right?

And so god that's so insidious Yeah, and so you wonder, you know, yeah, you look at these programs over time and kind of as the population of the major cities are shifted Like radically or less 50 years like they're very little in common with the population distributions They have 50 years ago, and so you wonder how much of it is massaging the player base God that's so crazy to think that people would be willing to sacrifice the safety of their residents that are bringing in the majority of the tax revenue By the way, so that they could somehow or another make it so that they could stay in power forever I mean, I mean and then get money out presumably from the state right like which is how New York City got bailed out Which is a hilarious story. They balanced the budget. Oh, congratulations mom Donny's a genius He figured it out socialism works. He balanced the budget and then you realize they got four billion dollars from the state So they could balance that budget so all these folks that are living in small towns with no crime and living in rural like West New York And like they had a pay hundred percent by the way the states get bailed out, right?

So fun, so I just came from New York and some York has their own version of this now with their new mayor and the big controversy Their last week was their mayor did a video standing in front of somebody's home. Yes calling him out by name I'm Griffin Griffin a very wealthy guy who brings a lot of jobs in New York City and was in the middle of a huge project It's a six billion dollar project and now he's considering tanking it. Yeah, he's basically I think he spoke a lot We got a conference and you know all but said he's gonna he didn't say it's gonna pull entirely I'll be saying I move much more of the business to Florida But the other significant can I know Kennedy major for us again has donated hundreds of dollars Particularly to health care in New York City on top of being a major taxpayer and source of tax revenue on top of being a major employer And so the new mayor has deliberately targeted him personally to try to force him out. Why?

Yeah, do you think that's the case that that's why he's doing it or do you think he's doing it because that appeals to his base because There's these eat the rich people but it's kind of the same right It's you're saying like I would give people benefit out. I would assume they believe everything they say and they feel very strongly about it I would believe that they also have a political incentive because it right if you get somebody who's gonna pose you out of the city That's good the top 1% of New York aren't they responsible for 50% of the tax base on that on that or yeah Something in the range also roughly Russell roughly the case in California in the year 2000 1000 individuals were 50% of the tax revenue It was the all-time peak, but I think it's roughly 1% of the tax there's 50% of the tax receipts And so one could imagine a position that says wow we want these businesses to work We want to generate all the tax revenue and we want to pay for all the programs Yeah, one could also imagine a somewhat more that's a yellow approach Which is to drive out the revenue and yeah, and then presumably the kind of a lot's I just don't understand why I guess people that are not Playing a long game. They're only thinking of their own political careers and staying in power that they wouldn't care Yeah, I think there's that and I think you just I mean obviously there's a lot of opportunism and then I think you just you have a lot of people You know a lot of people in politics if not run a business that'll be a role Right, they don't have any what you consider to be a real world experience And so the idea of business is somewhat alien to a lot of these people I mean I'm not a businessman all the way kind of am you are I kind of am in some weird way I'm a business man But this idea that it's easy to become a billionaire and that these billionaires are somehow or another are the problem because they're not paying their fair Share is so weird that that is that's a narrative that actually gets pushed through when you look at the actual numbers of the tax base And how much they contribute and how many jobs they provide and yeah, they make more money than everybody else right? You could do that too.

It's like this is one of the things that America is Really good at you can come from nothing and become incredibly wealthy if you figure something out and go And we just assume that everybody who makes an incredible amount of money stole it that they robbed someone that someone you Only like this is an area that gets pushed along democratic socialists that no one achieves that I think I literally heard AOC say this recently that no one achieves substantial wealth without somehow or another victimizing other people Yeah, and then Jeff Jeff Bezos is the obvious counter example Which is like every time you do the one click on the thing it's delivered to you two hours later at the cheapest possible price Yeah, saving you and your family a lot of time and money, but at the expense of small mom and pop stores allegedly a lot of them selling So I'm a lot of some sort of some sort of some sort of Amazon No, but I think you can do is you can compare contrast other countries that have more draconian policies in the direction that those folks are suggesting So you're up in particular, you know many European countries have a much more draconian You know much even more hostile to business and the result is they're much poorer You know, they're slower growth. They're actually shrinking that people are much less well off as much less funding for social programs So you can also do the cross you know the cross metric comparison in which I think kind of gets up the game This episode is brought to you by black rifle coffee the own coffee we drink here in the JRE studio There's a lot going on the world right now, but America is still the freest most innovative wildest experiment humanities ever pulled off I mean, this is the country that went to the moon allegedly built the modern world tamed the wild west and won back-to-back world wars But here's the thing some companies only want to celebrate America when it's trendy or when there's a big anniversary attached to it Since 2014 black rifle coffee has been celebrating America freedom and the people who keep this country moving forward every single day In this summer black rifles dropping limited edition America 250th commemorative bags for just black beyond black and spirit of 76 and if you need a little extra kicking your system They've also got tiger strike their new bomb pop flavored energy drink you can grab these black rifle products now at Walmart Your local black rifle coffee shop or get 30% off your next order with code Rogan at black rifle coffee calm Joe Rogan veteran founded black rifle coffee company America's coffee Well, that's the weird thing about the whole socialism things that it's never worked ever and they just go well It hasn't been done right yes, maybe it'll work for us But it's crazy that that works and I get it's not a failing of our education system Is that a failing of the media explaining things to people in a way that makes sense or is it just that people feel so helpless that they're making you know Just enough barely to get by the living check to check and they see these people in yachts and they see people in private jets And they say they must have stolen this this is impossible to achieve this kind of wealth Somehow another system is wrong wealth inequality. Yeah, so I think there's two there's two moral definitions of fairness There's a definition of fairness, which is you get out of something what you put into it Right proportional if I work twice as hard as you do I get twice as much and by the way that could be you know We're gonna race together and you know I run twice as far I get to eat twice as much you know Pie thing there's like anything like that I put in my for the good more results the other version of fairness is everybody gets a close Lice the other quality of outcome and those both feel right those both feel correct like there's something I think in our wiring Right in our brain wearing where those both feel like they're morally correct, but they are in direct conflict with each other And it's like and so when I really have a conversation you know get a kind of leave those two ideas out on the table I'm gonna say okay, you know pick one right and again It's not like it's not like you know the caricature is well Somebody's arguing them for like understrain libertarianism whatever and it's like no like we're these are all social democracies like we're gonna Social microses forever. There's always gonna be progressive tax system There's always you have to have you have to have business success in order to fund all the social programs that makes sense And really very few people are against it anymore, right?

It does make sense right it does make sense, but there is this fundamental question underneath that Which is the level of degree to which you buy into that first definition fairness what you put in is what you get out versus that Second definition which is everybody gets the same amount well the problem with the equality of outcomes It's not an equality of effort and this is the beautiful thing about America is that you really can just work 20 hours a day and achieve Something spectacular and the idea that you working 20 hours a day like a fucking maniac literally wasting your health away That you should get the exact same amount of money as someone who barely works Just kind of shows up does the bare minimum leaves five minutes early and that this person should achieve the same result Is that's crazy? I mean it's sort of like anybody's ever been in a class project of other students. Yes You immediately observe yes, there are certain people who stand up and like lead the way and there's people that likes it back and free Right, there's no there's no there's no story when I was after the Soviet Union collapsed in reporters wanted to try to figure out What happened in the interview somebody you know about like what it was like to work at a socialist you know socialist factory And then the line that the guy said was oh well we pretended to work and they pretended to pay us Right, right if you're getting the thing regardless of you because everybody's guaranteed ew Outcomes if you're getting the thing regardless of motivation and motivation is Everything for people achieving things. No one achieves anything spectacular without some sort of motivation that's gonna get them a result That's a reward for all their hard effort if you really thought you were just working for the sake of the people like no one's doing that That's not that's not human nature And this is the problem with the concept of socialism is that it punishes high achievers and it rewards laziness And that's not to say that everyone who's poor is lazy And there's a lot of people that are poor because of circumstances beyond their control They're poor because of all sorts of conditions that they really had no say in this bunch of things happen to them But the the game is there's an opportunity if you figure it out to get out of that situation in this world and you can get out of that situation There's so many stories these rags to riches stories, which is you don't get that in a caste system, right?

You don't get that in socialism You don't get that there's a lot of places what that doesn't happen in America that that is still a possibility Yeah, and the more you punish that you're actually punishing the real concept of the American dream No, I'm not saying that you should work 20 hours a day and become a sociopath and get on at all and just only try to achieve financial wealth And there are people like that you know them, right? Of course, I'm sure you travel in those circles Yes, but you get lumped into those people even though you're not that person at all because you're extremely wealthy I kept it 18 hours a day. Yeah, is that really what you work? Do you really work 18 hours a day?

No, I don't I don't I don't that's not it's not quite but you have to work a lot You work a lot, you work a lot, how many businesses are you involved in? And any given time I mean the firm it's over a thousand so yes No, I wake up every day going should I be doing less? Yes, that's what I do Yeah, but I I have a lot of recreational things that I'm obsessed with it don't pay me any money that I really enjoy Yes, so I'm always like maybe I just fucking do that Yeah, you know But the point is choice freedom just be able to do whatever you want and if you want to be some psycho that works 18 Hours a day and makes an insane amount of money The benefit of that to the tax base is massive The societies that don't have that are much poorer everybody's poor their entire European country should name their entire European countries where they rank below our 50th ranked Yes, yes, we consider to be fully developed bring that up modern countries. Yeah, like this is in the per capita income is lower than all 50 of our states right and It's hard even it's like congratulations like is that going is that going well or you happy with the outcome and you know You have that conversation Over there and they literally the conclusion generally is when you do more of the things resulting in that outcome my buddy Malaria's comedian from Estonia and he has friends in Estonia that have university degrees that choose to work in shoe sales Because if you make more than $60,000 a year your taxes are so high it actually benefits you to make less money And so they just give up and they just exist and that's why he fled and why he came to America So those are the type of people that are the least Accepting of any kind of socialism.

They're the least charitable when people start talking about socialism talk to socials about somebody fled Venezuela You know or Cuba they'll fucking stab you know They get angry and crazy because they know what the consequences are the real world consequences are and it's also one of the beautiful things about America You can have these utopian ideas of the world and you could get on college campuses and rant and rave and no one arrests you Yeah, I would say look I we're in a time in which this kind of what you might call radical socialist politics back Like so this is gonna be a big thing. It's I bet it's a big thing of the elections It's gonna be the thing in the midterms and big thing, you know, a lot of these cities and states You know somebody's you know, this new mayor of Seattle is very radical. You're sitting very radical the new mayor's Seattle's hilarious It's kind of hilarious. She lived with her parents.

Yes, her parents supporters. She's in her 40s never had a real job and now She's running what I mean, what how many billions of dollars the economy of Seattle? Yes a lot a lot It's a huge response to rich people leaving. Well, bye Okay now having said that I have enormous faith in the American people and I think that the American people do not Ultimately want this and historically when the American people have been given the stories they haven't taken it I think they have to see the results right They have to see it fall apart But the problem is once things fall apart It takes so much longer to bring them back that it does for them to fall apart like Los Angeles for instance Los Angeles like you said fell apart in like five years Yeah, I mean for me it was leaving in 2020 I was like I saw the writing on the wall like I see where this is going and I know that things don't get better quick If they get better at all This is not gonna get better is gonna get worse and that's it's headed in that direction And if someone came in with sweeping change and pulled up all the encampments and cleaned up all the streets and made things safe again I actually started prosecuting crime and it would take so long to fix it Yeah, you know, you know, you get we'll see what happens with the new day I know the new district attorney know as much better He's gonna crimes and then Mr.

Spencer prep is how you go if your chips on I would just say like his sudden rise Is has to be considered miracle. It's kind of fun. It's incredible to watch Yeah, he is doing such a great job and he's got really good ideas and people are saying well Who is this reality star? Why should he like?

What about the other people? What about them? What is so great about their ability to lead that makes you think that they're gonna be extraordinary choices above and beyond what's Fans are proud capable of doing what are you talking about? We have a home down there we fortunately didn't lose our home, but we were we were it was nerve-wracking for a while And you know everybody knows this not the city response was abysmal.

It did not exist Not the state response was terrible and by the way none of that has been fixed as far as I know like it's we're set up for that fire You know so the fire was it year ago little more than year ago took out twice the square mileage of the Nagasaki bomb Blitterated It looks like yeah bomb hit like the cars were melted into the pavement Yeah, it was gone and then Alta Dina which is like a working-class neighborhood and then it took out like half a melodou And so like it was like it was like pretty almost got all the West LA like it came very close to jumping every way So just taking out like Beverly Hills Bellaire Santa Monica like it was all in line of fire I don't think any of that's been fixed. I don't think there's any plan to fix any of it and so yeah Spencer You know Spencer's been through this the hard way along with a lot of people in the city which is you know They burn just house down and what is the response when Karen Bass's question about what are you gonna do if this happens in the future? You know everything is Wonderful yeah, yeah, it's wonderful everything's amazing There's a viral AI video which is a friend of his fans made which is everything is awful and it's a la It's like a movie set la it's like a junkie's bleeding out of the street Oh, his ai there's a bit amazing the Lego cities on fire and so I think there's just an advanced level of denial I mean it just I don't think I came out today. I just had a report today But apparently the head of the early water department, you know super high-paid, you know person apparently she apparently according to the information was unaware That the key reservoir was not full didn't have water in it.

You know that so the fire interest didn't have water in them, right? The police the fire trucks would pull up and they would plug in and there would be no water coming out I mean so it's it's a level of dereliction that is cosmic and to your point Spencer is particularly in that in a way that shockingly nobody else has been able to There's also talk about the pal sades about them selling the land about acquiring the land selling the land like what is going on with that? It's not so I don't know all the details I do you know right out of the gate there was a state ban on go to quote predatory land sales so predatory offers And so there was a ban at the state put a place of ban on anybody making offer in the land at less than the last Of praise value which included the value of the house on the land and so they chilled the because a lot a lot of property on So you lose your house in LA by the way It's been almost impossible and I think a lot of people actually possible to get fire insurance in LA for years because of all these issues Because these companies aren't stupid they don't want to be left over in the bag right And so there's a lot of people whose houses burned down and their first thought was screw it I'm out of here, right? I'm just gonna like sell I'm gonna sell the land I'm gonna go some someplace saying and then all of a sudden the state moved in basically you can't you can't say you can't Sell your house they said people can't bid on your house.

You're now destroyed house below its previous value So the previous value so if you had a ten million dollar mansion on a lot in the pal say it's worth 15 million dollars while It was there and you say I'll sell it here for five you can't do that you can sell it you can sell it The prohibition was on offers The prohibition was I don't know the exact I remember the exact details the prohibition was because all immediately immediately there were people you know speculators right who immediately came in and they like oh this is your prime land and right you know surely at some point the city will be Go for rationally so we're gonna buy all these last room building houses and we'll make money And so the state immediately step in to make sure that that didn't happen by preventing the offers That's one step two is it was almost impossible to get a permit to build anything before this It's part certainly harder now. How many houses have been rebuilt? Oh, I mean right round to zero effectively none I mean if this is we're talking I don't know up to 15 years Maybe for the rebuild maybe by the way maybe never in a lot of places 15 years for individual homes or 15 years 15 years 15 years all in I haven't seen any prediction that's less than 15 years to rebuild everything because any individual home could be I don't know five years eight years ten years Why so long because it's almost impossible these cities almost never it's almost impossible to get permits to do anything in These cities in a good day. They don't they don't let you do They don't let you build why because of the the local politics of not ever changing anything and not everything's you know Everything's historic or everything is this or that or to rebuild anything they do is you want to rebuild something you have to do Some other trade so this is the other things kicked in is not a politics of what they call affordable housing Which means government housing so now there's demands that you know a certain percentage of the land be devoted to you know Government housing projects, you know in the middle of what I've been originally wrote and so that that's a whole snarl And then on top of that, there's all the logistics of actually building anything which is there's only so many general contractors, right?

Hold music not what you want to hear when a pipe just burst in your basement is flooding That's why intact insurance answers two million claim calls per year within 20 seconds So instead of hearing this lovely track you'll hear this in seconds hello intact insurance around to be able to do it And how many thousand homes were many I don't know these ever many thousands I mean for people who haven't by the way experience this there's this great There's a really good movie on Amazon called crime on one. It just came out with Chris I'm sort of it's a great l.a. Crunk paper It was film-impested palisades right before the fire and so you watch this as gorgeous as a gorgeous movie and you watch this movie and if you're in LA You're just you know, it's hard to not literally tear up seeing because that's just gone Yeah, it's all totally gone so you can get a sense of devastation everything that we get destroyed And so yeah, so it's it's completely yeah, it's completely snarled up, you know, and I don't know levels You know, it's you're back to the age old thing. It's a single party state.

It's been spreading as republican You know the voters have a choice A lot of people this house is burned down. I'm not coming back like you know this again This goes back to the thing and I like I don't think the you know, we know know who the fire was set by this crazy guy who had His own political agenda, right? But like it was a fan of Luigi. It was Luigi terrorism.

Yeah, we know we know believe that based on the reporting of the Daimons and so like I you know, I think that was like the real cause but like you do wonder if a you do wonder politically If I side-effect to this is to get responsible homeowners out of the city permanently to change the voting composition So God, you know, like you can probably explain the dysfunction without that, but you do wonder if that's a motivation somewhere in there Yes, so we'll see you know, look I should also say like I said I can do this for hours be up in California California is also the most you know, spectacular place on earth like it like it's amazing I mean, it's a natural wonderland and then on top of that, you know We have two of the great global industries in you know, culture in LA and tech and Silicon Valley We have a you know, it would apparently infinite gusher of money coming out of these two industries that can fund, you know Both amazing things horrible things. There aren't both of those industries kind of leaking out of LA right now So so so so LA so my understanding is there's less film and television happening LA than there was during the last strikes And so it's become related so almost impossible to shoot anything in LA And you know many of the great movies in TV shows in history of course We're shot in LA as well big studios built their lots of the whole point of being there and that's almost all gone So the local economy's just been destroyed completely independent of fire Right, it's been destroyed by that basically the crushing of the of the production side of it And so so yeah, so LA was already reeling from that and that that continues to be a big problem And then you know look that there's the state, you know, there's this new tax this new ballot proposition for an asset tax And right the number of people in Silicon Valley who were leaving the state is quite large And I would say where it was a trickle and now it's a stream and it's on it's becoming a flood And I know a lot of people who really in the state because they feel like their assets are gonna get seized And let's explain this asset tax because it's people are thinking it's just as simple as you get an additional x amount of percentage of your income But it's not it's unrealized income as well. So yeah, so there's there's lots of unrealized gains Yeah, so there's lots of different kinds of taxes that one can have and there's you know the obvious one sales tax Anybody or something there's property tax based on you know, we're paying property Well, there's always theories and this there's terror search or taxes on international transactions So you have to get actually somewhere and you can decide from among these taxes historically the US didn't in the old days The US didn't have any income tax and then the income taxes introduced about a hundred years ago And it was a big deal at the time was a big deal Just like oh wait a minute I'm getting a salary and getting paid at the time whatever it was a hundred dollars a month And you're gonna take you know, whatever you're gonna take a percentage of my income of money that I earned and so that was like very controversial It started out I remember properly started out as like a 3% tax only every people, you know, so so but what happens is they got the mechanism And then before you know it, you know 30 years later, it's you know, 50% tax rates and then by the 1950s the marginal tax rates on high income people We're up in the 90s, right? And so so it's a very big deal to get to be able to get the ability to seize a percentage of somebody's income But we're all used to that now, and so you know, we all pay we all pay federal income tax in California We pay a lot of state income tax with a local income tax and we might income tax rates something like 60% Maybe at this point 62 or 63% all in I'm paying you fair share exactly exactly But we're all used income tax, okay, so park that for a moment then there's this concept of asset tax Right, and so the various terms asset tax well tax or you might think of it as a property tax that applies to everything you want Right, so not just the land that your house is on but everything car collection art collection all the stuff in the walls all your clothes all your jewelry all your everything your house That's like the whole thing.

It's also stocks, right? Stock spawns, yes everything crypto how did this get proposed? How is it possible that someone proposed something that's insane? So this has been running around for a while By the way, there are other countries that have done this with disastrous results because all of the people with any level of assets in Fleet of country, so Europe has been through this multiple times and you know, we don't pay attention to that But you know, there's case studies and that it's worked up early every time.

It's been taken around for a while It almost passed there's almost a federal well tax asset tax in 2022. It almost passed it didn't pass And then the Biden administration said in their 2024 fiscal plan for 25 They said they were gonna come back and do a federal well tax asset tax in 25 if they had gotten related And then now in California, there's a ballot proposition that a specific union has put on the ballot specifically for itself It's the politics are weird because it's a bad ballot proposition because it's one union where all the money just goes to get in its causes And so it's a weird one But this is the first of what's gonna be a flood of these and so that and you can imagine the story the ballot proposition is it's a one-time tax 5% of assets for people with a net worth of some level And then that level you know kind of moves around depending on who's talking about it And by the way depending on what's included and what's not included And so I think in the current proposition for example, they exclude property They exclude like real estate and I think they did that stocks and bonds would be included And so yeah, so if you if you were above a certain It's starting out with a high threshold on wealth and so today just like the original income tax on day one It doesn't anybody and then it's a 5% of the course You're giving is these people make 5% a year anyway, and so more than that and so they'll make up for it And then and then they say it's a one-time tax, but we know from the history of income tax This is how it starts and then we know where it goes Right, and then you know you smash cut and the movie you smash cut you know ten years later and everybody's getting hit with it And people lose their houses because they can't it's just a new we can't okay Let me give you the twist on this in California the twist on this is it's a specific punitive strike aimed at tech founders and tech companies And so they have the calculation of the value that you owe is based on the greater of your economic interest in your company or your voting interest in your company And so if you were the Google founders as an example, you have what's called super voting stock, right? And because you want the company to have a long term outlook and you want the founders to just in charge And so let's say I'm making numbers up Let's say the Google founders own 3% of the economic value of their company But they own 15% of the control value of the company or say 55% of the control value of the company the taxes calculated based on the higher of those numbers And so for founders in the Valley particularly private companies But also public companies really have control stock if this tax passes they instantly go bankrupt Jesus Christ, but they can't possibly pay the tax because their their tax bill by definition is a multiple on top of their assets And so this is on the ballot proposition. We just filled out our ballot at home You know, this is happening right now.

This is the first of these there will be I am positive a dozen more of these the next time in California I am positive that this will arrive in every you know blue state that has any sort of ballot proposition You know thing where you can put things directly in the ballot I'm positive this is gonna get proposed in every other blue state over the next few years It's the obvious thing to do and then I am virtually positive that this is gonna be a big campaign platform issue for the 2020 election at the federal level And isn't it also set up that they can completely move the goalposts for what is the threshold that you would get taxed at? So it's a billion dollars now it could be five hundred thousand dollars in six months What's this in they just patch up they just patch the law and they don't know when votes on that? Yeah, they just it's a so California is a democratic super majority in both houses of both the house in the Senate in California And a democratic governor and of course the judges are Democrats and so the Democrats can pass anything they want And so they get they get in with the force of law for the ballot proposition and then they modify as they see fit So it's a Trojan horse for a lot of these people that are like yeah fuck the billionaires like what about the thousand Heirs buddy, but he knows the classic thing we're burning Bernie's not speech used to be on the billionaires the billionaires until he became a millionaire in all the speeches, right? Okay So a lot of people have gone to you know our governor and said you know This is gonna be very bad news for the state and so you know Kevin to his credit says yes I agree this is very bad news for the state because if you can feel for me can easily go in Nevada or Texas or Florida Can he veto it?

No, he can't veto it because it's a proposition not a law So there's no view of power However, what he's doing is he sort of signaling indicating an estate that basically the position paid you know running for president We all believe what his position is gonna be is obviously you shouldn't do this the state level you should do this at the federal level Because the problem with this axis state level is you can flee the state You can't fit the country Practically speaking you can't free the country and so my my expectation is that this is going to be a very big Sort of populist populist campaign measure on the part of you know basically all the time again It's in 28. So yeah, so an asset tax. I think it's coming federally Unrealized gains as a tax important important understand Yes, it's unrealized gains and so this is in the fullest of time as this expands you want to small business You want your business you want your business sitting here by the way, what's your business worth? Who knows?

Right, you know unless you have like I don't know active secondary transactions in your soccer you take your company public Business is worth and so a government is good on the rabbit hole. Government of Fraser is going to show up and decide what your business is worth Oh boy. Yes. Guess what their incentive is right to have it be as high as possible right, right?

Right, and so and then they're gonna and they're gonna do this and then by the way They're gonna look around and they're gonna say whatever what other assets they have and they're gonna go through your brokerage accounts And they're gonna go through your art collection and then really they're gonna want to know what's in your safe Do you have jewelry in your safe? Is your wife your jewelry in her safe? You know what you go right down the rabbit hole, you know nice guns you have our anyone teaks We need to get those appraised straight up communism Yeah, and so and that's actually whole separate argument I guess this is the level of in basiveness in the part of the government to be able to actually figure out what your assets are And of course what's gonna happen is every person is any level that's gonna do anything they can to hide right? Right, and so you're gonna try to like do whatever level of shuffling and then you're gonna be looked at as a criminal trying to evade paying your fair share Especially by the proletariat hundred percent right exactly and you can never it's you know It's a little bit it's a funny thing in the current tax system that you have this thing where you estimate what you own taxes And you send it into the IRS and then they tell you whether they think you're right or wrong They don't tell you what you owe right?

They leave it to you fill out your tax return to estimate what you think you owe and then they judge you on it But at least with income it's like relatively short for because it's like I have a salary or I have whatever For a wealth tax asset tax like you're trying to judge the value of your assets They're trying to tell your assets third parties are trying to value your assets like who knows what these things are worth Yeah, like who knows and so it's a consequence It's like towards a very totalitarian outcome which is like, you know, how do you prove that you're not guilty? How do you prove that the thing on the wall is not worth twice what you say it is? Right, you can't right. Well, you're the only way you could is you could put it right you could which you probably have to What people say it's worth not even what you paid for it Exactly because sometimes you buy something and then ten years later, it's worth way more So now you have to pay taxes on something that you paid a fraction of yeah Well, and then I think about this company over time, right?

So let's say I saw this five percent one time and then let's say it goes to five percent anyway, okay So now you want to small business so now they're coming and taking five percent every year the one time thing is bullshit Everybody knows it's bullshit. Of course, right? Because of course they got to immediately come back so they get addicted to getting that money and then they have to balance that budget again That's right. That's right.

And then just do the math on the company. Let's say it's a five percent It's five percent every year for ten years. What percentage of your business is gone after ten years? They just they just shoot apart.

Where are you moving? So where you moving to so my partner man and his family have moved to Las Vegas. They are extremely good spot They are extraordinarily happy. I have a lot of friends coming to Texas I'm in a good restaurant in Vegas.

They're very good restaurants in Vegas very wonderful place. Good laws. Yes Also that what about or you buy weed? Very very entertaining place like people go into Florida.

Yeah, I'm going to go to national Going you know all kinds of places in the in Europe what they do is they just go to another European country Right, so they just and they have all these tax data like Malta and these right crazy places you can you can escape to in the US There's nothing like that And if you try to leave you try to leave the I only have one friend is ever left the US and you have to pay an exit tax You have to pay an asset tax already today. You have to pay like 45% of all of your assets to no longer be an American taxpayer And leave the country and so that's why I'm not leaving. That's why they think well, and then you get to this and so my answer is I'm not leaving the US and further I'm not leaving California having said that, you know, I am not leaving California. I'm not leaving California You having said that, you know, you do start to wonder okay if like half the tax base leaves You know what happens the other half and then if these other taxes pass what happens and so like the situation is the situation is fraud Like this is the this is the this is the single most activating thing I've seen half an apologize that has people in the Valley crank up again literally it's not even so much the money is they see their ability to actually have a Company destroyed You can you start a tech company work hard for 10 years and still own it but at the end of the process And why would you do that and so that that's the thing in the Valley?

That's really harsh and then the other side of it is like how many if everybody else is leaving do you want to be the last Standing and do you want to be the last remaining target right and so the team through on that is getting tricky and so like I said I think we're definitely from trickle stream and we're entering flood territory and what do you think is gonna happen with this? It's on about what is your Assumption the professionals the professional It's basically 5050 so the professionals tell us is that California California is naturally prone to be in favor This kind of thing because of the composition of the voter base is the same reason we have a democratic superiority in the In the legislature and so forth having said that the American people in California don't like socialism They don't like as it says so this thing started out like pulling it like 45 or 50 percent What the pros say is for a proposition to pass it needs to start up pulling it like 60 percent because the initial polls before there's been a Counter campaign and the counter campaign can almost always knock the you know the support down at least in your 10 or 15 points And so the pros say there's a chance that this doesn't pass because the 50 percent goes to 40 percent And it doesn't pass the counter argument to that is this is the part of the national mood right and this is a rolling thing And you know all the all the narratives and all the issues that you're all aware of So I think it's 5050 and then by the way there will be like a mother of all court challenges following this You know because this is gonna get litigated and then there's gonna be all the specific You know I mean the number of people I know we're like figuring out all kinds of advanced maneuvers to figure out how to shield their essence It's amazing. So there's gonna be like all kinds of crazy Stuff that happens from that. I don't know what happens But I kind of think is what I kind of goes like I kind of think it's not even this this one is not the issue The issue is what follows this one and so the issue is what all the other states and cities do what else happens in California I think the big issues would happen so early which is where I think this is by the way What's with Warren has already come out?

I have a kitty for 6% annual wealth tax at the asset tax at the national level unrealized gains National level national level and I believe and so that she's such a cook So that's the opening game But a lot of a fair number of people in Washington already signed up for that like I said the Biden administration wanted to do this Like they tried twice so this is not crazy like this is the Biden administration tried this tried to 22 to do a federal Asset tax for some reason it was during covered in all the crazy innocent people weren't paying attention But they tried and they got close And then they said in 24 in their official plan for 25 They said they were gonna do it 25 if they had one reelection and so what would that do to businesses if they did it on a federal level Everything we've been talking about. Yeah, I just yeah, you know nice farm. You have here We're gonna take 6% a year until it's all gone nice house you own Well, what's the end game though? This is what doesn't make any sense fairness fairness fairness a complete dissolving of massive businesses is fairness and then what happens?

What do you get your iPhone what actually happens is a really good sport? I mean whatever what actually happens is everybody gets more but of course that's not the subject so Lord, I know things are getting sporty Sorry, I did not mean to come in here be a little black or not. That wasn't mine. Well then also there's a problem that We would people look at what's going on right now with the Republicans the Iran war which is extremely unpopular very unpopular.

I mean what is it polling at now? It's like low 30% of people think it's good idea So the Democrats come along, you know and they win in 2028 and then you have these ideas pushed forward because people want something different than what you have now Yeah, and then it just opens the door to the stuff I mean this is playing out in the UK right now. So you know the UK government just blew up So the carrier star mer is the Prime Minister very very so figure in this direction You've got AOC mum down in sort of politics He just blew up under it because actually because I'm actually scandal catalyzed it He's a blue up and so he's stepping down There are four candidates for UK Prime Minister to replace him all of them are to the left of him Oh boy, and so there and you know saying things happening for us saying something in Germany, you know So there's a yeah, there's something in the water that's pushing in this direction And then yeah, and then you have to so what could be done to counter this? I mean you have obviously the narrative has to change people have to understand what the ramifications of these things are with the repercussions are Yeah, and then look I think you have to and again this is where I have I have a lot like I'm still I'm still I'm still extremely optimistic about the US specifically and here's the reason is because I would imagine anybody's listening to this is like You know, it's two ways to listen to this thing which is all this these guys are out of touch and no no no The other way I think about it is I own home.

I own a small business. I own a store. I own a farm I want to you know, I want to leave something my kids and they're gonna come and take it and so I think that like inherently that's a bad That's a bad speech and so I think as that becomes clearer like this just isn't this isn't because it Right now it's only California everybody just kind of thinks California crazy anyway But I think it's this becomes a national issue. I mean my expectation with people like look at it They're like oh, that's clearly is leading in the direction I don't want to see it and then it like I said I think through the implications of like okay guess what like they're becoming a West jewelry like Do you think that things like this that they have to get this bad before people get rational that sometimes you need an enemy?

That's so obvious that people sort of unite and realize like oh, this is not the direction We want things to be headed in let's figure this out in a better way I mean that has happened a lot I mean, you know that that is that is this in pattern I mean you should be mentioned that is you know a lot of people there don't do not hold any of these ideas because they've been through It in the direct experience. You know, yeah, these things are easier to you know These things are easier to kind of not think about heart if they're not right in your face But again like I said, it's just you know like the US has had multiple 1948 1944 the vice president United States almost became a guy named Henry Wallace who was an actual communist who was actual actual actual communist like actually like in league with the W Union like for real and he almost became VP instead of Truman he almost became president 45 and then he ran in 48 and didn't win And so that was like a great example of like America had a choice and by the way that was after the Soviets were allies During World War II so they were not you know, they were actually quite popular there had been a ticket for a Just a song I think in New York City not sure before that not long before that and so you know like at least in 1948 They did a heart, you know American people took hard look at it said no not here so The amount of propaganda that people are subject to in 2026 That was very different and the social media propaganda is wild because people live in these echo chambers and they you know Especially like go to blue sky you want to think the world's falling apart go read what people's opinions are on blue sky like Jesus Christ they're advocating murder for people that don't agree with what they believe I mean I saw after Charlie Kirk got killed There was all these people that like do him next do this next not this is horrific someone just got murdered It's like yeah, do someone next do this person next and no punishment no no banning don't take it down It's like you've got these social media echo chambers that get people thinking that these are good ideas And then there's no one around them that gives them a counter narrative anybody who does is fascist Yeah, good The good news of blue skies they self isolated blue sky How many people are on blue skies? Do you know the concept? It's probably I mean a couple million Jack who created blue skies like a fucking dumpster He's out he's disowned it um so do you know the term heaven banning they've heard of this no This is an old truck is this old term for people to run like check groups and forums online?

Which is okay? You've got somebody on you've got somebody in a check group and they're being in the butt There's two things you can do one is you can ban them from it and that'll make them mad and it'll be everybody Mr. All the other thing you can do is you can promote them to heaven which is you just let them interact with bots and just agree with everything they say Oh boy, yeah, and so you just let them like every day they have the best experience of their life because they're right because they're They're just they're saying every crazy thing and they've got 30 people right there with them are like absolutely they're absolutely correct on everything Wow, and so in the industry the joke is real. It's real life I'm bad it's all these people have ascended into their own private.

I hope that's a good question about like how many people are on blue sky that's a Bot Jamie now we just have this conversation about how many of these conversations that we deal with with political issues or bots That's also true. There's tremendous amounts of bots and then there's also by the way just payola is running crazy right now Payola how influence you can pay? Oh, yeah, that's weird. There's a there's a there's a legal loophole Which is you have to disclose political?

Campaign finance laws you have to disclose political contributions if you're advertising a product you have to see you have to disclose that for consumer fraud reasons But if it's just an idea you don't have to disclose it Even if you're getting paid to promote ideas You get paid a political idea social ideas. Yeah, because it doesn't fall it's not Canada and it's not products It's something else and so it's actually legal today to pay an influencer to say whatever you want as long as it's not an Expliciting endorsement of a candidate or product and then there's no disclosure requirement. Whoa, and I so I mean I think this is right I think a lot of social media now unfortunately I think it's paid influencers in the one hand and that's why campaigns behind that and I think the environment has gotten very blue And obviously you know you want to bring everything you can to fight that on X But in Facebook they're doing the same thing, but how can you fight that on X with people that are being paid? That's why it's so effective right because it looks organic right by the way Everyone's so well people will see this everyone's for all the campaign will roll out and there'll be 30 influencers a particular kind They'll all kind of say the same thing and somebody will do this.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Sometimes they give or sometimes people will accidentally cut and paste the solicitation They'll cut past the text message in without removing the part that says you if you tweet this up to be $5,000 And so every once in a while it pops out like that but you the answer is generally you don't know And if your influencers are creative you're not gonna find out if you're one of those influencers all sudden that becomes your living Yeah, that's right and a really good one.

Totally. If you're getting paid $5,000 to post something and you could post 20 things a day That's crazy. No, yeah, it's like look. I mean there have been you know there have been sponsors just forever There have been you know campaigns forever.

There's always been guerrilla marketing is the term that used to get used You know for kind of these underground marketing campaigns, you know For example, lots of brands higher college kids to go try to get their friends to use products So there's always been for pay all the time I use the term pale remember pale use in the old days as records labels paying Radio stations to air new music try to fabricate a new successful pop star by paying the DJ's That was called paying all that was actually banned decades ago, but yeah There's been a lot this so in one sense this is just the new version of that on the other hand This is a very difficult version of that because the assumption is you're dealing with real people But if you made that a law where you have to disclose whether or not you're being paid to espouse opinions that would change everything I think so now you have to catch people right right, but if you made it a law and then you could catch me You have to get people to jail and people go to jail Also, I believe on acts I think according access policies. I think you have to disclose if you're paid I think there's a type you have to really even for an idea. I believe so again Though it's not a law it's not a law and then again There's a big and further problem right and then by the way again It's it's the influence of the thing and then it's also the bots So the influencers and bots go together I think is the full picture because the bots show up and make the influencers look like they're more successful than they actually are Right and they're a tip off there You may have seen as you'll see these tweets or posts on whatever platform and they'll have like 22,000 likes and they'll have like 15 or plus Right, it's like yeah, okay. Yeah, okay.

Yeah, that's not right. Yeah But then again, it's evolving and so now you're now of course you're gonna get a lot of fabricated replies Absolutely. Yeah, we were just talking about that too These crowd sourced campaigns that you can do where you can hire a company and that company can promote an idea and they have all these accounts They just start pushing this idea and it's very easy to do you could attack a political candidate You could go after this go after that promote this promote that and it's legal. Yeah, no Positive side of this which is like go back to Spencer Pratt who by the way, I've not I haven't done it at all but like he's using this I think in exactly the right way, right?

He has a pair campaign exists because he's able to go viral social media, right? Because he didn't start out. I mean, he's literally a guy who's house burned down like that that's the guy, right? And he's able to you know He's been able to go out with his message and he can go out you know He goes out minute to minute and then he does his official videos and then he's got all of his fans doing their videos and the whole That's all free like to him.

It's all free. It's all zero And out he goes and so the fact that it's an unconstrained environment also That's you know people do it the right way and so I think there is that side of it and I think there's some balance here that has to be struck To contain the bad behavior, but also make sure the good behavior is impossible right because right now it's almost impossible to find out Who's a bot or what's who's being paid and there you oftentimes see people commenting on Different political issues in the United States and you go look at their page It says that I want you like oh, this is that's interesting That's a good thing that Elon did but can't that be certain can you monkey around with that and get around that somehow or another make it look Like you're in America with a VPN or something. Yeah, that's right You need to be for that so it's the cat mouse thing by the way a lot of this this happens frequently Both scams and these kind of bot campaigns will be some of the country and it may not even be an organized thing It's just a you know, it's somebody who's getting paid right just a It's just your financial self interest and so yeah, and then there yeah, there are certain countries But there's a lot of activity because you know, it's a country with a low per capita GP This is a good job, right? Right, right and so that's a challenge.

Oh, yeah Yeah, so this is what you know the folks at these internet companies You know how you spend a lot of time on this um, do you go online? Do you? Buck around and go on Twitter and read things do you really have a man half left up? How do you have the time to do that?

I mean, it's just I mean, it's what's it's an incredible information source like if you if you know everything We're doing is trying to keep up and every new trend every new development right trying to track You know all these all these my people everything that they're working on is just how do you separate the wheat from the child? So there's so I go back and for so I use I use I use access to check I use Instagram I use a lot of time access to check in particular on X both of which were involved in on X I use both I so I let the algorithm do its work, but then I also keep it curated lists and you know They're clean now, right? You know, right hand curate every person and then I'm sort of some Anitturias I have a I have a one tweet policy. I follow you based on one tweet and I block you based on one tweet And so I'm like I'm for me.

It's like a real life video game or not my video game And I'm just like on a here trigger interesting there are people by the way there are people where I will follow them based on a tweet and then block And basically tweet and then we follow them based on other tweet So someone yesterday that says there's an entry so our circle of life on Twitter If I'm off and you get a block and block to follow it unfollowed and what do you block people for? I was just being an asshole. Yeah, I don't want to see it. I don't want to see it Which covers a lot of bad behavior Yeah, but I mean it's an incredible cross-section of information I mean it's amazing.

We have this like incredible resource with social media fees with incredible research now with talking ais information and you know, and they're you know, and I'm not you're hoping and there's there's downsides to both of those and you can use You know, you can use them in in dysfunctional ways, but what percentage of it they're great for me? They're great. What percentage of what you're interacting with online do you think are pods? I think I think I think all most of the people I find at this point I think most of the people I like actively follow like they're on the curated list.

I think they're real people So how do you do this curated list? You have a use different software? No, it's not just in the Twitter UI It's okay, so you have like a list. Yeah, yeah, three hundred topics Okay, and so you just like go and check that and see what's going on with this list.

That's smart. I don't do that Yeah, that was I don't really I don't go on it anymore It's just to me it's got too much of a bomber. You have a different way of satisfying your curiosity. Yeah, I mean But it's also when I go on it's like I read so many things about me I'm like I don't want to read anything about me So I don't go into my mentions But then things about me are not even in my mentions just in the regular feed I'm like I don't read that so I get that I get that too.

Um, when I finally figured it used to bother me What I finally figured out is you have to think of it like it's a Call of Duty lobby So the call of duty first came out It was one of the first games that had the have a lot so multiplayer games and everybody was on their headsets without I thought you were the first time so you go and it's like 20 years ago You go on the call of duty lobby and there'd be like 12 girls just cursing you out Right, it's like every call you every horrible thing they could think of right and just it's part of the artist's part of the artist Just you know they're trying to psych out their opponents, right and just be general And so if you view it of I'm entering the call of duty lobby and it's like bring it You know in theory you can moderate your emotional response Oh, you could definitely moderate your emotional response, but I just choose to get my world view from other places I just don't I only get healthy for you And I just see way too many comedians in particular But I think other public figures as well who get become very mentally unwell by engaging in it all the time Okay, so my friends and I have a theory on this we have a theory that there's two ways to live life right now It's either you're too online or you're too offline. Mmm interesting those are the choices right you have to find a comfortable medium But nobody ever does Right, there's only the two online is exactly what you're describing And you're too wrapped up in the fas in that and you know Twitter's not real life and you know you get completely disconnected By the way, I think that's happening a lot of politicians like it says you're stopping a lot of media figures It's happening a lot of people in my industry, but the other side also think there's too offline Somebody wants to have a definition of a baby boomer as somebody who believes what's on the television set That's a problem, right? Yeah, the baby boomer problem is real Right, and so if you're not online enough then you tend to believe you know You literally if you literally believe what's on the TV and what's the newspaper that's another kind of problem If you're only getting mainstream media Narratives, yeah, it's a giant issue. That's right So I think the problem is at least everybody I know they're one or the other right and by the way and as a consequence They live in two totally different worlds right it's almost impossible for somebody to talk to somebody who's too online to talk to somebody It's too offline and have a productive conversation because the two the two offline person no idea what they're talking about right Like all the context the two online person is too wrapped around the axle on things that are like these crazy online drivers right Right, and so I think that's actually a big part of what's happening in the culture independent of like versus right or independent of whatever It's just simply it's too different completely different media to really I always wonder like what is it gonna look like in 20 years Like what is this gonna be like in 20 years seems like a long time?

But it doesn't if you realize that 2006 was 20 years ago, which doesn't seem like that long ago 2006 is like modern times it is I think the next 20 years is gonna change a lot more than the last 20 years I think I think so as well. So I think I think all of this I think we're back here in three years We're gonna be very different conversation certainly we're back here in 20. It's gonna be very different conversation and by the way Very exciting in many ways, but very different. I'm reading a book right now on the yugas the cycles of civilization.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah Yeah, we I thought we were in Calyuga But according to this book we're not we're in the that Calyuga ended in the 1900s and that we're in the next stage and so it's got me very optimistic They're rebuilding after the rebuilding after the the rebuilding and like that we're entering into an age of enlightenment Yeah, and that there's going to be some significant breakthroughs with technology in particular that allow people to have A much more balanced life and perspective and a much more balanced civilization like this is this the doom or gloom Right when it comes to AI there's a lot of people that think this is gonna be the end We're gonna be enslaved it's gonna be over and then Elon's like no universal high-income, you know, no longer There's no more poverty.

There's no more everyone's going to be there's a massive resources You're not gonna have any problems with all the things that people are hung up with in today's world in particular with communication You know if we do develop some sort of technology based telepathy you think that the Internet is a game changer technology based telepathy is the ultimate game changer because There will be no more frauds. There's gonna be I mean you're not gonna be able to exist as a fraud If everybody could read your mind You're not gonna be able to exist as a grifter everyone's gonna know your motivations everyone's gonna know everything It's gonna be very strange But that could that literally could call in the next cycle of humanity if you really think about it If you want to be completely optimistic, what do you think though? Yeah, look? I mean so obviously that's a very very very very big change the technology path for that is this you know So called neural mesh you know neural link is a step in the direction right?

Yeah, I mean I'm not specifically about what you said, but he's serious about integrating people's called brain interfaces And they're working right and it's and it's amazing right because it's you know It's like he's accomplishing miracles along the way like the lame can walk the blind can see the deaf can hear Like you know, it's freaking amazing what what that company the other companies in the space are doing and so that that's headed in the direction of You know you've probably seen this is you know, you know Quadriplegics who can play video games with their brain if they can play video games they can write messages and and then you know People are also working on the input side of it. So, you know, so that's coming But I would even say like a lot of this is gonna change even without that technology right and so they I don't know if you've seen so the Metaglasses they just added a heads up display in the medical Sis and so you can have a heads up display remember Google class way back when it kind of had that and but was It didn't quite work right so they now have in the meta-ray bands They have the ability to have a heads up display and so you can be sitting talking somebody getting messages And then they have this thing under if you see the neural they have a neural wristband So they have a wristband they can pick up the nerve transmissions from finger movements And so you can type in one mode You can just like they can pick up your finger motions and then there's another mode where they can actually pick up your Intention to move your finger even if you don't move your finger by picking up your nerve impulses off of your wrist And so at least in theory you could be sitting completely still and you could be receiving messages in the glasses And then you could be responding with basically, you know, sort of so using your mind to pretend to type effectively yes Yeah, so yeah, it's like a small just apparently it's like a small training thing you have to go through and then you can You can start to do it and so you'll start to have that Yeah, this is the new this is the new so they just added the screen recording They just said this is doing these videos of starting crazy. You just play do like talk of you Oh, yeah, so he's wearing the neural wristband. So that's an over span and then he's moving and that's that's his hand there And then he's moving and playing the game with his thumb and with his fingers If you watch looks like he kind of sucks well Right control it with just your thumb is pretty crazy, right?

It's not that accurate. It's like scrolling forward to move It was a very old game. He's on yes. Yeah, the fact that it works kind of not there's no one.

No, there's another one It's really funny. They got people fired up which is somebody doing one of those It's like a Mario jumping game and they're playing it as their jogging in real life And the joke was yeah, I love this because I can finally pay attention to the right outdoors Because you're actually running outside, but you're playing right? So um god. Yeah, so that's that's all starting to work.

Um, my favorite I'll give you my favorite dystopian. Okay. Okay live detectors So I don't think you need to let the video live detection. I think you need very high resolution cameras and that might be You know that could be mounted on your face or from On headphones real.

Yeah. Yeah, and then I think if you could get like infrared if you could get a high-no-forslution cameras And if you get like infrared sensing you could pick up somebody's you know physiological change What if they're so safe as well, then then they have a huge edge problem in the world in the world? Is that a problem? Definitely be a problem And then a look a eyes gonna get over all of this right?

And so you know a big use for things like the Metaglasses is talking to AI Metaglasses are as input for AI because they're able to see what you see through the cameras And then it's able to and then you can talk to the AI through the microphone in the frames And then you can I can talk to you through the speakers in the frames Yeah, right and so all of these devices are gonna start to become very magical because they're all gonna light up with intelligence like right now So what's the dystopian perspective of the introduction like the wholesale adoption of AI through everything? I mean, I would say the Dimmer's have an excellent marketing campaign, so I think you've probably heard all the dystopian scenarios right so It's sort of they're all gonna kill us but at some point before after they take all the jobs Flock cameras are being so aware of new forces surveillance right All the jobs and then you know now apparently we're destroying all the water which is actually new is to us in the industry What do you mean? So this is the big the big anti-data center push there's a big Populist kind of revolt in country against building new data. Yeah watch Kevin O'Leary argue with Tucker Carlson about that Yeah, so Kevin Kevin has this huge project in Utah, right?

And he's bought I don't exactly think he's bought like 40,000 acres of land and the vast majority of it's gonna be just pristine land But he needed for the water rights and then he's Center and It's a weird bit second mind is to buy surprise because it's a bit of a weird issue because if you're ever gonna build anything at The most benign thing you could ever build because it doesn't do anything well. What is it for? It just sits there It's to just like rack up thousands and thousands of computers in racks right for what to run to run anything that can run a computer It's specifically running the thing that has people freak out is to run I mean everything else you know every other every other kind of in software runs and these things also but right as the thing that's activated though But this data centers the size of 2000 Walmart Yeah, it's gonna be very good. No, it's gonna be the middle of no it's a little nowhere It's gonna be surrounded by natural beauty, you know, it's gonna be in 39,000 whatever 900 acres are gonna be preserved Right, and so it's and you're never gonna see it Right, and then you're telling that Marty supreme From Shark Tank plays the bad guy Marty supreme.

Oh, it does me it's a legitimately great performance It's absolutely plays a mid-century American businessman. He absolutely nails it. I'll spoil it one point He literally spanks Marty like he literally like he literally just Marty's like needs him for funding for his crazy Oh, it's crazy dreams and kind of literally turns out to be scared I don't even know what the movie is about. Do you know it Marty supreme?

Yeah, it's a great movie. Yeah, it's actually a true story It's about hustler. It's a movie about it was movie about hustlers making in America Oh, so it's like right after World War two and there's this young immigrant You know immigrant family Marty Marty Marty Mauser in New York from the Outer Burroughs and he decides that his path to fame He has many many like plans of scams How he's gonna make it America, but it's big plans to be a world champion ping pong player and he's gonna make calling into a giant sport like basketball Football And he and by the way like the actor actually like apparently trained to play ping pong for like six months He's just like amazing incredible ping pong matches you've ever seen. Oh, huh So it's like it's like it's the American dream.

It's the yeah, okay, and then he gets to he gets to make it with like When falter along the way, so it's like a haha. It's her return of movies after after one break When is this movie out? This is out last year. Um, this is the way you got cheated at the Oscars I got cheated.

Yeah, she's fans. We've got she did because the the two other movies won all the words I got one battle after another and um, what was the other movie? Oh centers won all the words and Marty supreme got bucks But it's a it's a never heard about it's a good idea. I'm good.

I'm a good young guy's made it to the safti brothers Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I love it. It's got that energy. Oh, but with this kid who is just like an absolute ballifier determinist determinist Uncon gems freak me out. I love it.

It's such a good move. It's one of the best movies I've ever seen It's fantastic. It's it's in terms of a movie that like gets your emotions going and gets you involved and gets your anxiety ramped up Yeah, there's nothing like that's amazing. Adam Sandler was and if you know anybody like that I bet you do I bet you know if you gambling addicts I'm a risk risk Alex boy gambling addicts are fun and hustlers fun to watch crazy people want to make anyway, so get the great Kevin Larry was already great investor and he's a great actor that turns out.

I'm and he's building this giant data center Did you see Tucker's discussion with them? It's kind of interesting might be good to watch Let's watch it. We'll see if you can pull a clip of it because Tucker was Essentially saying like how did you get this past and he said they voted on it and it turns out It's like three representatives in Utah and Tucker's argument is like how difficult would it be to subvert the you know Get a hold of three of these representatives and get them to vote on this thing That's not good for the people that he's saying you're gonna be taking American jobs with this thing And this is like Tucker's position You find any clips on it? I found the whole thing first.

This is ten minutes long I give you a little of it. If you want to give you a quick one really further. Yeah, let's put some headphones. That's no problem.

I can build that in Texas. I can build it in Jacksonville, Mississippi But why if it's such a good business? Would you be asking taxpayers to help pay for it without giving them equity in the company? Are you giving taxpayers shares?

No, the investors get the shares, but here's why they would do it. Why would the taxpayers have to start a business? But why why am I as a taxpayer forced to pay for your business? I don't get it.

Well, let's forget about data centers Let's go any manufacturing. Let's say you're gonna build an Aluminum sheet manufacturing facility you go to the government there and say look this is gonna huge CapEx expect You know huge CapEx expenditure. I'm gonna hire 2,000 people. I'm going to build a community center I'm going to pay a lot of tax on the profits in your state when I sell the aluminum And I'm gonna hire all these people who they will also pay tax and we will build a school because our workers need a We need a school and and and and and and and what can you give me to incentivize me versus the state right beside you?

Which is willing to give me an incentive package. No, no, I understand I understand that you're you're gaining a system in place You didn't come up with this but I'm just trying to understand so the trade typically is jobs, okay? But these projects always no no, it's also jobs and taxes because you're going to taxes. Yeah, but But then you're getting a tax break so that doesn't really make any sense only on the broad street Tucker welcome to America buddy This is how it's gone on for 200 years.

Oh, I don't know why bad things go on for a while I'm just but I think at some point it's worth assessing. Why are we doing this? So you are doing that you're doing it because there's a competition well, I run a couple businesses and we're not getting any tax breaks I think they're everybody's virtuous as data centers But I'm not availing myself of that and no one's offered and I wouldn't take it anyway because it's not the job of taxpayers to subsidize a private business It's a fair it's a fair comment My job is to create a data center create 2,000 jobs for long-term 10,000 manufacturing at the beginning or in construction and I'm Obviously looking at multiple sites and this won't be the last one I build I have me I asked 2,000 jobs Okay, so relative to the size the physical size of the project which as you noted is multiple times the size of Manhattan and the power draw at peak This data center your projections will consume about as much energy as New York City does But New York City provides almost five million jobs and this project by your own description would provide about 2,000 jobs I don't see the great that you definitely got that calculation wrong Okay, the data center that trains AI that provides productivity to the entire nation we create millions of jobs high paying jobs So AI is going to create jobs. Yeah, I thought it was gonna eliminate you know net just think about the new technologies We don't even know yet that are going to be So what is your take on that I have many things on that okay?

I know so I write things down so I'm asking you how ready to go so a couple things I started out talking about tax breaks for businesses I think that's a completely legitimate debate topic. I think you're talking about one talkers right in the sense of some kinds of businesses get Text by others own right that's a completely fair thing. I could argue both sides of that one I say that number one number two the energy thing I think is a little bit of a red herring at this point because the sort of claim you know the claim is he's data center So they're gonna use so much energy and then they're gonna cause local energy bills You know to skyrocket and I think it's very bad by the way when that happens I think about data center comes in it should bring it's an energy with it or pay for the energy separately There is a new federal policy now exactly on those lines that I think everybody's doing it back to switch us to pair If you do it data center you bring your own energy, so I think that can be dealt with and then And then both of those connect to what I think is the big underlying issue which they were kind of dancing around which is what we talked about earlier with The rebuilding of belly which can you build anything in America anymore? Can you can you build a factory can you build a chip plant?

Can you build a power plant? Can you build a refinery? Can you build a pipeline? Can you build housing?

And you know one of the common themes in American life for the last 30 years is the answer to those questions is generally No, you can't do any of those things right so take as an example Silicon Valley right so all the chips are made in Taiwan well 40 years ago All the chips are made in California why are all the chips made in Taiwan because in California the regulations got set so that you couldn't make chips in California anymore so now they're made in Taiwan and now we have to figure out what to do with China based on one That's really all it is. It's just regulation. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all the all the chips are made in California And what regulates is specifically stop them being able to manufacture environmental environmental Yes, and you have these you have specific issues on environmental impact on things and then you have these umbrella things with me But basically essentially ban everything and what was the negative consequences of them in terms of the environment? I mean there's always some there's always some substance to it.

There's always some risk of it Probably something chemical leakage or something like that right if the chemicals are properly managed and then there's whatever other kind of super heat Claims around that let me give you the ultimate story on that which goes to the power thing Okay, so for the last you know 50 years, you know, we've been worried about global warming climate change We've been specifically with that. We've been worried about carbon emissions It turns out there is a form of energy which basically is unlimited energy. That's carbon free that generates no carbon at all and it's nuclear power The nuclear power was considered such an attractive way to generate energy in the in the 50s and 60s that a whole bunch of You know big nuclear plants got built by the way France ran for long time almost entirely nuclear power Japan ran for long time almost entirely nuclear power But we used to have nuclear plants getting built in the US Environmental movement started they said they don't want you know oil gas fossil fuels And so the Nixon administration around the time you ever born created something called project independence and project independence was to build a thousand new civilian nuclear power plants in the US by the year 2000 and the idea was that thousand nuclear power plants will power the entire United States with totally clean energy by the way That's also the energy electricity you need to be able to cut over two electric vehicles Which could have happened a lot sooner and then and it's called project independence because it means the US won't have to be involved At least anymore because we won't even boil right and this was a response to the growing energy crisis in the 70s at the time How many nuclear power plants were built out of the thousand rounds to zero? They never got built because the Nixon administration also created the nuclear regulatory commission Which made its purpose in life is to stop nuclear power plants getting built and the nuclear regulatory commission did not approve a new nuclear plant Designed for 40 years.

No, it's just because of three mile island. So then three miles So then three mile island hits and three mile island in the You know, but it was a meltdown of a nuclear plant on the east coast and it becomes a mega story And this is like this is in the middle of the 70s when people are freaking out about it You know Vietnam and the oil shock and like all these issues and recession depression and on top of that this nuclear power plant Melt sound everybody frees out complete panic. How many people died from through my island melting down one zero zero Zero deaths zero deaths and the total people got ill though. I don't I don't I don't know I don't know if there's any evidence of any any result illness because it just like it just melts out It just stays there So like if you walk into an abandoned nuclear power plant that has been contained you're gonna be in trouble But like if you're just like if you're just like if you're just like if you hold music not what you want to hear when a pipe Just burst in your basement is flooding.

That's why intact insurance answers 2 million clean calls per year within 20 seconds So instead of hearing this lovely track, you'll hear this in seconds. Hello intact insurance Like for another example Fukushima, I think they're really have an argument of like whether it's zero or one people who have been affected by Fukushima In Japan, which was affected affected. Yeah, yeah, well, this is people I forget who did it but somebody went shortly after Fukushima and just made a point I wanted somebody American source and stuff went over there and he just went around and started eating everything You know edible plants and drinking the groundwater like it's these are these are No, but the consequences of radiation poisoning aren't instantaneous, right? Yeah, but this is my point three mile island has we now have 50 years of data and so if there was gonna be some crisis based on that We would know and there's no like excess to my knowledge.

There's no excess cancer. There's nothing I don't think anybody's ever shown anything like that. Let's find out. Yeah, let's throw that into perplexing.

Look it up Are there any excess cancer rates that are linked to three mile island? And then there's the second question would be are there any no acute radiation deaths or clearly proven radiation cause illnesses have been documented from through my island But epidemiological studies disagree about possible small longer term cancer effects in nearby populations, but that's from 50 years ago Immediate injuries are deaths official investigations by nuclear regulatory commission and other agencies concluded the radioactive releases were low And that there were no detectable health effects on plant workers or the public in the immediate aftermath Again, the nuclear regulatory commission is against building nuclear carburets, right? These are not like all the problem is the narrative right? The problem is that everybody freaked out and nuclear we're gonna die.

It's new technology It's voodoo it's witchcraft. It's green it's green. It's a big thing. It's the same stuff that makes the bombs makes the bombs.

Yeah bad The factor is a factor. Yeah, yeah It feels bad. So they're gonna lie to you the government will lie you'll die and still sleep it on the rug skin exactly it makes it Yeah, you have it like I understand like you have this like a sore response I mean, that's a real right to some people experience this real thing right? But the result of that like it was just put yourself you're environmentalist the result of that is for 50 years We've generated all of this completely unnecessary carbon like the entire time like that's that's that's that's the alternative right?

And by the way, it's even worse in the rest of the world where they don't even you know many many developing countries They don't have centralized or only gas the way we do they literally do we're burning inside their homes and that is extremely What burning is terrible? That's extremely bad. Unfortunately, because it smells awesome And here's another argument about this the problem is also that the technology around nuclear power plants has evolved significantly yet People are still locked into this idea of like Fukushima which like they had a backup generator that went down that whole place is Fucked for a hundred thousand years. Yeah, but again, it's a place it's a good place And so what you're just not leaking into the ocean?

I don't know. I think it's leaking into the ocean and I think like Brett Wands He told me not to eat tuna No, that's mercury There's definitely that further issues, but here's my point. Okay, so we decided we decided to just not build nuclear power plants In fact, we've been shutting them down and by the way Germany is shutting them down. You generally shut them all down Yeah, they mentioned in the down the result of that There's times of ironies in this so first of all you don't get you don't get the energy don't get the safest for a better You know to man like Most effective most effective and clean up still everything else and least and by the way The other thing is rank ordering all of this like rank order any of this against oil and gas The downstream implication oil gas or any other form like it's just it's just super clear And by the way the environmental movement itself is turning in there actually rediscovering nuclear power becoming a favorite Right, I'm not super grand is one of the original environmental is real book talking about this This is the whole thing was a huge mistake So this is turning up But there's all kinds of just amazing kind of downstream things from that so one is if you turn off This is what Europe is doing if you turn off the reliable sources of energy then the theory is you're gonna cut over You're gonna cut over to renewables, which is when it's solar the problem is when it's older and not 24-7 Right, and so your is this what Germany has done is you turn off your nuclear power plant You then are running a wind and solar which is which is then erratic But the Sun is out or whether the wind is blowing and so then you need your backup generation of power to be able to make up for the gaps And guess what that is cool It's a cool mission so fun, okay, but here's why this is important Okay, so it's important actually for two reasons one is it just make this broad category question of can you build things in America?

Can you build a factory? Can you build an energy plant? Can you build a data center? Can you build housing and every single one of those there's this massive problem Which is like right now in many cases in many places?

No, you can't number one number two if you're gonna build a data center you want it to bring its own energy Right, so the very specific thing you want to do is ideally you want to ideally you want to plant a nuclear Micro reactor right next to it and just let it like completely power itself right and just let it go And then as a consequence these issues are getting are getting intertwined And so and so what's happened is the Trump administration is both extremely pro building AI and building a data centers And they are very pro American energy production And then those issues are linked because the data centers need energy and as a consequence the other the left has become as a consequence Increasingly anti-AI and has always been anti-energy and anti-nuclear and now they're combining that together and then of course Tucker is the latest twist on this which is you now have a rump sort of Know what to call it anti-tech anti-AI anti-energy movement on the far right And so you've got the horseshoe theory you've got the horseshoe theory where the burning position on AI and the Tucker position on AI are becoming closer and closer And so anyway, so that's the backdrop to all this this is why I think it's a great I think what Kevin is doing is a fantastic idea. I think obviously he should build that thing You know should you get the tax base or not? I don't know whatever should he build a thing 100% so the argument about the tax breaks is that states offer tax breaks because they're in Compassion in competition with other states for certain categories of businesses, and so this happens Kevin said this happens with many fact if if in the rare event that I want to open a manufacturing plant in the US Which generally people don't even try anymore But in the rare event you want to you bid it out to the states and you see you give you the best x-ray Film and television production work this way you want to make a TV show you bid it out like that and you know Recently it's like Georgia has been only subsidized to a degree But one of the reasons so much production has left California is because other states in other countries will give you You know right as rebates, and they also allow you to film. It's not the problem with the Los Angeles And they let you do it.

Yeah, I talked to Roger Avery about this. It's just absolutely insane It's my friends are filmmakers. Tell me as they basically can't think of either We can't the production will get stopped the stream of really going strike like it's Hollywood It's not by the way, Georgia is saying no apparently it's becoming possible to film like it's Georgia is gonna wind down as a site No, really? So the unions are stopping the why because they're constantly pushing for their constant pushing for their own goal of increase You know whatever contract terms and you know income and residuals and everything else and so they strike on these projects In order to force the studios to negotiate more because now everything's streaming so it's very difficult to there's no residuals anymore Yeah, the residuals have died.

Yeah, and then yeah, and then People have with this not a lot of trust So anyway, so yeah, so so so I think that I think it was I think it was exactly right on the following point which is I don't think You're getting a tax incentive my guess to have your business here. Nope. Nobody suffered me any time People argued that I did because I moved here They thought that I moved here because of my spot if I deal but that's not true I would have stayed in LA happily if it was LA of Did somebody from the state government awesome show up and say oh yeah, right? So you didn't get it.

I know nobody offers venture help firms attached to relocate So there's many you know normal businesses don't get this so I think that's a totally fair question And it just it goes to this nature of you know if different states want to compete this is something right? Right, but that's right. That's a really it's a rounding area issue on the big issue though In the big issue is getting buildings and so these data centers this AI data center What people get terrified of is the good? It's sort of a parallel argument about the nuclear thing.

It's like we don't know It's like what are they doing? They're making a data center. What are they gonna do? Well, they're gonna scoop up all your data and they're gonna control you with this so what is an AI data center?

What is it actually? Yeah, let me start by saying the industry is absolutely terrible at telling it's a story It's like almost running an anti-marketing campaign trying to convince everybody that the technology is evil awful And many of the leading CEOs in space are like for reasons. I don't fully understand like actively marketing against their own industry That's all that's all we put let's just use a risk Of course pause and then we're gonna come back and you can make a good argument for AI. Sure.

We're talking about the guy making Restoring all the old pizza. Oh, yeah, he's restoring the pizza Hudson bringing impact man game Oh, so great. Yes, we're just saying that the key is to get the tabletop pack man game So you can eat your pizza. Oh, is that what he's doing?

He said he was finding all of the glass the glass generally I don't want to channel your bill like glass fixtures Yeah, old school for the cell bar finding used ones into the salad bar in there. Oh, yeah Yeah, I'm going to work. You gotta be going to pizza now. I would go once at least Well, they could make the pizza better.

Well, how good is pizza pizza pizza? Yes I taste the same as it always has okay. I can study in 1979. It tastes great All right, uh Yeah, so what so you're saying that the people running a I've done terrible job of selling a yes.

Oh, so sell it. Yes I mean look so it is all right. I'm gonna give you the deepest of all pitches. I'm gonna give you the Okay, so I think 20 years looking for this key to what he called Alchemy the idea of alchemy was to transmute something that was very common in something It was very rare and the common thing was supposed to be led and the rare thing was supposed to be gold And he said if I can use it was a thing called the philosopher stone that he kept trying to discover that would turn Let him go in the theory was if you turn let him go then all of a sudden you have material abundance prosperity for everybody You eliminate all dr.

Everybody's rich and you know, there's a question by the way I'm like if the world's a wash and gold is gold is still valuable So maybe there was a hole in the argument but in any event you may know that he never we have never figured out I do that right so Imagine it form about gonna be the turn sand into thought Pause on that for a moment. So chips are made out of sand so they're made out of silicon So they're literally made out of sand and so we gather up sand and a whole bunch of other stuff and we apply all this advanced Manufacturing technology to it we create the chip into a data center in a power We light it up and we put a on a on it and all of a sudden it's thinking and so we've turned sand into thought and so it's Possibly the most revolutionary technology in history of the species. Maybe it's certainly on par with electricity and steam power It's certainly more important than the internet And just think about what this means and so many people get immediately to this very serious practical implications But just think essentially which is just like okay our entire life everybody has ever lived in planet earth Like you're constrained in what you can think based on just what's in your head Right like what you know and like how much time you have to spend thinking and how you know smart and cable You are and the complexity of the situation you're dealing with and you know We can only get trained up in those finite lifetime to be an expert in so many things and everybody has experience in life Or they run into a complex situation and they just don't have the grounding to be able to process it and for a lot of people That's a health issue where all of a sudden they're listening to these doctors saying all these contradictory things and how are you supposed to figure out What you should do for you know a cancer patient or somebody who gets in a lawsuit and all of a sudden you're listening all these High-paid lawyers making all these claims or for that matter you go get your car fix and making all these claims right? Or you deal with the government and they're prosecuting you or they're investigating you or they're in their In their value assets for the purpose of the new tax and you have to figure out how to argue with them And so like we all and or just you go to work and you just go to work and you just have like a complex problem And you don't quite know how to solve it and you're really worried because like what if you're boss thinks that you're not capable You're gonna fire and so we're always all bumping up against these just these limitations on thought like just how smart can we be?

How many things can we know about and so AI quite literally is that it's it's thought at scale for everybody in perpetuity, right? So everybody I see this with my living room right now like everybody who grows up now is going to have AI as a As a as a augmentation companion capability superpower, right? They're gonna have where all of a sudden they have this they have they have their own They have this enormous other additional capability and every time they need to figure something out or every time They need to fill out a form or every time they need to make an argument or every time they need to try to figure out a course of action All of a sudden they have the ability to tap into this resource that can really help them solve Just an extraordinary number of problems that today We just you know take for granted that we can't solve and so this is a very very very big concept But it is literally happening and last time I was here. I was pretty sure that this was gonna happen And now I'm and now with all the advances of technology now.

I'm completely confident that this is happening In fact, I think it's essentially already happened Well, I'm crazy because you weren't here that long I was not here that long ago The field has changed that much the field has moved incredibly quickly Last time I was here probably was not that long after JAPT came out would be my guess sometime around that And you were calling JAPT first came out the kind of you know the thing that was fun about it was it composed You know rap lyrics based on Shakespeare in poetry or it could write a great wedding speech or like what? You know, it could do all kinds of fun stuff But it had all these problems that hallucinated and it made stuff up and it was like it wasn't good at logic And it couldn't do basic math and it had all these issues and so people was a baby It's a baby. It was a little yes a little tiny baby learning how the world works the technology advances in the last three years I've been like mind-boggling like crazy amazing impressive And so I actually think people talk about this concept called AGI which means artificial general intelligence Which basically means an AI that's as smart as a person and I actually think we crossed out about three months ago And I think it was it was with the very latest versions of the leading models and one of the reasons people are having a hard Time understanding what's happening AI is because it's moving so fast that if you don't use the latest thing you don't understand what's happening Because you're not seeing it so a lot of people use JAPT last year the year before and right they're not actually seeing the new thing Right the new thing specifically is it's called a GPT. I think it's 5.5 And then it's this it's called the Claude anthropic assistant Claude and that's called 4.6 Was the key release and then Google has this thing Gemini just like 3.0 and then Grock.

It's 4.3 So these models all have in each case I think in with those releases they kind of hit this threshold Where all of a sudden I guess I say this like in my line of work 99% of the time the answer that I'm getting from the AI from those from the most advanced models is better than I would get from talking to it Basically almost any expert I've access to and I have access to you know my job a lot of experts I'm gonna say 99% of the time I'm getting a better answer from the AI meaning a better answer meaning smarter better And and part of it is what they call fluid intelligence Which is the ability to conceptualize and process information and part of it is what psychologists call crystallize intelligence Which is just memorization of everything and so that the every series it brings you both because it's smart But it also knows it's trained on all the data. It's trained on it's trained on like the complete corpus of human knowledge, right? So it's a world-class doctor and a world-class lawyer and a world-class accountant, right? And a world-class political operative if you want to run for city council and it's a world-class marketing expert if you want to market your Podcast or and it's a world-class software coder if you want to write write write some software code And so it knows everything about all of these fields all at the same time And then of course it has a huge advantage and I love people and I love talking to people It has a huge advantage of it's endlessly happy to talk to you about anything right?

It doesn't get impatient right? It doesn't get frustrated One of the really fun things I do with AI is you know, I'll ask a question I'll get back this complicated answer I'll just be like I don't this is too complicated for me. I don't know something else. I say explain it to me like a pen Yeah, and it gives you that's like all of a sudden it's like talking you in terms of understanding You're like alright, this is still confusing.

Alright explain it to me like a five Right, and then I'll do it all the way back and so I do it all the way back I'll do it explain it to me like I'm two and it's like well, you know, I use it as a metaphor You know how you're mommy and daddy love you right? You know you have a pillow you love to sleep on it right? What if that pillow could be in two places at once? And so like it is absolutely happy to like do this endlessly I'll give you the medical implications alone.

I'll give you my personal experience So over the holiday break, you know, I go on vacation. I'm really sick. I'm one of those people So I'm really good food poisoning and so I know I'm gonna have nothing to do for like five days Right. I'm gonna be on my back.

Five days for food poisoning? I mean, I don't know. I just was rough. This was yeah, this was where you go I will not protect guilty.

Okay. Um, I know but I won't say so later So I just decided I just basically said what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna let Dr. GPT take care of me And right and so I went totally overboard on purpose and I just basically said like so like every 20 minutes I gave it like an update of like, you know, and I'm literally I'm giving you know, personally for me, you know, okay I just had it, you know, here's what happened. I didn't do the thing you can do you can actually set it photos now I didn't yeah, I didn't I didn't do that although you can and it will do that But I was already nauseous enough, but I gave it like moment to moment that day So this is like I wake up at four in the morning.

I feel terrible and it's like, you know, I literally type in it's for the morning I feel terrible and it was like amazing. It's just like it's just like it's just like the best doctor in history the world Who is just like happy to be there for the morning with you holding your hand working through this? It's just a completely different kind of experience than anybody has ever had in medicine And then to have the exact same opportunity for anything legal that comes up and for anything in your business and for By the way, how to parent how to parent I do this all the time. I got 11 year old like how do I what movie should we watch?

All right, like which ones are safe what kinds of content do I want not want? You know, it's like it's and it's infinitely it's just like oh tell me what your guidelines are and it's like infinitely sensitive It gives me um, so I want to watch movies with them And I know there's like three scenes in the movie that I wanted to see It was like one of those things like the exact timestamps of the scenes You know says you know pause it here. Can you run a movie through it and tell it eliminate those scenes? Yeah, you can't so you can't for sure.

I haven't done that. I haven't done that that hasn't done But yeah, you could do that that would work now blur out the nudity you could do you could do the blur you could do the blur You could do the learning for sure. Yeah, it could definitely do that. Wow, but it's just like it is this thing It requires this kind of my set change Maybe two parts of the mind said change one is just realizing what this thing can do And it's a bit of a black box in the sense of like you can tell it to do anything And so you you have to like figure out what to do and so there's a there's a learning process that kind of kind of goes with that for sure But the other part is just like in your day-to-day thought is just like okay When do I hit when do I hit the barriers of my own knowledge like when do I in the past like I would have been frustrated But I wouldn't even wear that I was frustrated just because I took it for granted But of course I have no way of answering this question and now all of a sudden I mean, I just you know you take your card of mechanics like I use an irradiator I don't know like what should I look at you know It gives you like a complete undressing and whole thing It's just like it's a capability that you you know unless you have a friend is like a car expert that you bring with you You never would have had a way to do that you would have just given up from the very beginning and now you've got something that's happy to hold your hand through it And happy but you don't have to sell me on it.

I'm a giant fan I think it's pretty fantastic in terms of just use yes like in daily life You can get a lot of information from and I use it for whatever writing I keep like my phone open And so I have my computer on and my phone on my and I started asking questions to the phone just ask perplexity like what is this? Why is that well when did this start? Why do people start doing that and what's the argument against it? What's this and what's on you know?

And when did a Spain and vaid mexico? When did people start speaking Spanish over there? You know like that kind of shit and you said something interesting you said you think three months ago it artificial general intelligence I think we have the change. Yeah, I think we have the change so I forgot the name I can't believe I'm blanking on the name, but the test the turn test very test all in turn okay So remember his name you think it's there yeah for sure so for sure so that was that should be like massive news correct This is what's confusing correct and I totally agree with you and we in the industry talk about this all the time This is not massive news and it should be and right and so here's okay So for people people haven't heard of the Turing test that the Turing test was for 60 years It was the gold standard in figuring out whether AI would work or not Right the basic goal is during test was can you if you're human being can you tell whether you're talking to another human being over Basically in a chat room or whether you're talking about and for 60 years it was impossible.

Nobody many people trying to write software past the Turing test nobody ever succeeded we blew right through the Turing test over the Christmas holiday of 2022 when Chetup came out We just like blew right past it. We blew it so fast and so hard nobody has even bothered to do the test I mean, there's probably a handful of papers or somebody's actually firmly done it But like it we blew through like tissue paper to the point where it was not even It was an even older people in the industry like we're just like wow Exactly your reaction like that seems like it should have been a big deal It's like oh no that was like yesterday's news like that turn it turned out it turned out What we know this is part of what we know is actually turned out to be easy part of the miracle But we have now there's now a large language model that this guy Andrew Carpathie was one of the experts in the space is developed He's developed a large language model in 300 lines of software code There are people who are backporting large language models to run a PC from four years ago You can run somebody's got people have them running on Somebody has a large language model running on a Texas instrument calculator And so it just it turns out this is a huge surprise it turns out intelligence is just not that hard There were a handful of conceptual breakthroughs that had to happen There's a so called neural networks and there's a thing called the transformer and there's this thing called radio descent and there's these tech reinforcement learning So you'll hear these technical terms, but when you add them all up you basically have the formula and we not have the formula That takes me to what's happening in these data centers. So what's happening the data centers is two things the what's called training and what's called inference So the training part is basically taking the world's accumulated information every bit of information that these companies can get access to which By the way a lot of that is just they crawl the internet and they just like pull down every scientific paper and every web page and every read post Every tweet you know every every public domain textbook and every whatever PDF and every possible thing that you can find on the internet And then these companies now we're going out and gathering data. They're buying data They're generating data.

They're hiring thousands of people to generate data in all kinds of domains Actually these companies are hiring like thousands of lawyers and doctors to like write your training data So anyway you gather up all this data and then you do what's called training and so you train the system You basically smush all this data together in the form of a neural network and that gets the thing up and running But the training is not one time it turns out you as these models every time you want a new version of the model This is more capable you have to you have to retrain right and so you train and then immediately when you're done training that model You immediately start training the next one. So this is kind of a perpetual treadmill that you're on So there's a training side that's important and then there's what's called inference The inference is what happens when it gives you the answer so when you ask it when people start speaking Spanish It's doing inference to give you the answer and so that's what these data centers are doing Wow, so the Turing test got blown through in 2022. So where we got in 2026? So it's better than they said I Most people I know who use the leading ed models and take it seriously will say that they are better They give you better answers on 99% of topics than 99% of the people you can possibly find to talk to about them Yes Well, and unlike every time I'll give you an example So I mean he's we're gonna use coding a lot as we talked about this because coding it's a turn it turns out everything These things are good at coding is the thing that they're the best at writing software code And the reason they're the best at that is because these companies are the companies themselves are in the business of writing software code And so it's the thing that they're most excited about on a meeting because it's the thing that they're doing themselves And so it's like the shoemaker son making shoes, you know for the shoemaker making shoes for his kids and so so so these companies are the furthest I had on coding Nine months ago, there was this concept called by coding where instead of writing code You just have a I to write the code for you and then there was this concept of slop Which is it gives you back code but it's all motion is all screwed up and it doesn't work well And people were kind of getting bearish on this idea over the holiday break of the end of 2025 Many of the world's best coders put their hands up online instead There's been a breakthrough in these new models are not better at coding than I am so for example Linus Torvalds who's the coder of Linux John Carmack who created doom.

Yeah, we just saw like these guys said yeah It's tipped better coding than I am so so that's happened and then everything else is coming behind Medicines right behind laws right by all these domains pick it up By the way science by the way the scientific breakthroughs that are going to be staggering so biology chemistry physics Economics mathematics you can put your blood work in it'll tell you what's wrong with you 100% Okay, so I'm giving tons of examples But I have a friend who's extremely advanced on this and he has used the a coding ability to build himself the most comprehensive It's almost like a star trek it's like the diagnostic back star trek where it knows everything about you It's the most complete health that's where you could possibly imagine he put his you got his genome decoded you can now get your You can get your whole genome decoded now. I think it's for 200 bucks online And you can it's by the way that used to cost like $100 million right and now it's like 200 bucks and it took forever to do forever to do The guy that I invented invented the thing I'll just passed away spent 30 years basically and succeeded in figuring how to do this But you can get your whole genome decoded so all of your DNA information all your genetics And it's really important because it's like forecasting like you know future odds or you can get breast cancer Parkinson's or you know Drug drug interactions are you like I have a mutation? I have a specific mutation where there's the standard kind of hard medication that they'll give you have a heart attack doesn't work with me So you have to tell the emergency room to do the other one so like genetic information is becoming very valuable See put your genome in You put your blood test in so you just get a blood you go to one of the labs and you just get your own panel run And then you connect your your your all of your connect your like Apple watch to it So it has like your pulse and blood pressure and you get it You basically just like feed in all the health information and it just it just gives him the like the most spectacular And then you basically just say alright What do I need to do right of course that's a question you have to want to ask right because it's just like okay Well, you know you need this supplement you need to get this jacked You know you need to you know and then you put in your sleep data and it's like well You're you know you're good you know nice you don't sleep enough your blood pressure rises you know So it walks you through and by the way it's like okay now I need to lose weight I need to do whatever Okay, now give me the diet to go with that you know give me the thing So my friend actually pushed it and this is very good I want to use it because he pushed it a step further It kept telling him that he wasn't he wasn't getting hydrated enough And so it said I want you to I said I want you to do whatever it takes to make sure that I'm hydrated enough And so it started watching him through his webcams It started praising him when it saw him walking over the bridge to get the water and so like The gene in the bottle like you got it decide what you're gonna ask it yes to where Okay, I have another friend I have another friend I have a friend who super into Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu And so he has to webcams in his in his home gym and he has his he has his AI watch Zuckabur I don't want to dox him, but Okay, then I will need a confirm or deny So these models are what's called multimodal which means they can they can process text but they can also process images and video and audio You can feed in all kinds of information So he has his webcam in his in his gym watch him doing his sparring and then it gives him performance feedback Whoa, right? Because it analyzes images so it's you can ask these the capability I mean are just like they're just like mind-boggling in there in their in their scope and this is gonna be basically in every field of A few activity.

It's important to go through this though because of course the public discussion on this is just like relentless negative right and In particular the thing is happening is the immediate sort of conclusion that if the machine is doing something that the human used to do Then the human so I lose this out This is what I keep hearing but this is the point that making is you got to start on day one on this to really mistake I'm starting day one being like everybody gets superpowers right and by the way this technology Every other thing people really worry about is this is going to centralize into like two or three companies And they're not gonna you know normal people are not gonna access the exact opposite has happened Which is these companies are driving this technology and everybody's hands and there's now like a billion people online who are using these AIs through the apps on their phones and so this technology has to democratize faster than any technology history And so everybody's getting access to it right if you have a smartphone You have a smartphone you have access to right and so the way to think about the overwhelming impact of this is positive and the reason for that is the Universal basic superpowers right like universal basic everybody gets the world's best doctor lawyer But every domain jujitsu coach jujitsu coach exactly right independent their income level Right where they live independent circumstances right everybody gets access and so the the the There are for sure gonna be downsides and there's for sure gonna be you know whatever destruction so far all kinds of things are gonna happen But the upside aspect of this in order people's lives is staggering And by the way you have this dislocation happening already where the you're this polling that basically shows you know The sort of big you know negative popular response is very unpopular I actually don't believe that for two reasons one is because you just you always want to watch what people do not what they say And what they're doing is they're using the stuff and they're living it yeah, and then I also think those balls are wrong Which we can talk about but well who's making the polls so the polls the polls there's many many different ways to make polls And in some cases it's interested parties So it'll be the press will do a poll or you try to get somebody to a poll to be able to write negative stories something or an activist We'll want to gin something up there's even a form of polling called push polling where you construct a polling question specifically to change people's minds Right, so you get a poll that says you know Do you know your love did you know Spencer Brad is a you know you know strangled skits on the weekend right and you say well No, I didn't know that and then in the back you're right you're thinking wow I didn't know that right and so there's those kinds of polls I like the kind of poll if we could put up the graphic that I sent yes, I think it's really it was I like the poll that does what David Church is dead. Who's one of those famous lefting so this is from a left-wing poster Okay, David Church is a famous democratic poster. This is the one that with the stack the stack chart that has it's like a bar chart on its side I'm like 40 things on it. Yeah, okay, so this just came out of so this is a form This is sort of this is all the different political issues that people are worried about All the issues are what in their lives that are relevant to they go for cost of living number one economy number two political corruption number three No, I inflation inflation health care taxes government spending so it gets down to AI is ranked 29 out of 39 issues That's currently currently.

Yeah, and by the way, it may rise. That's very interesting, but it's above race relations. Okay, so This is what I really want to talk about. Okay, so below AI this is really interesting race guns gas gas The climate childcare Child care which is a yeah, which is a certain economic thing abortion and then way down at the bottom LGBT Yeah, all the work issues have died.

Yeah, they have evaporated They're done. I mean at least for now. You think about how intense think about how intense race abortion guns and LGBT issues right three years ago What do you think happened people are done people are done? They're done.

They're tired. They're done. They're burned out adrenal fatigue Well, there's too many people that were drifting right? You know turn out the people were stealing money and buying electric houses in the white house in California Like literally the white is literally the whitest Code no, just keep that up for a second.

I just want to show a couple more things And so so first is it's really interesting So so below the line the book issues are just done and you know the activists are still fired up in the whole thing But like the voters at least when you ask them to stack their issues the voters like LGBT is Very bottom and you know, this is not to say obviously the issues are not actually important to the people in effect I'm like that is just the voters are like we did that It's a very least we're gonna pause for a while and focus on the things and then as you immediately picked up at the very top The economic issues are not paramount, right? Yes, which by the way make this makes sense because of the hyper You know the inflation that we've been through but and then if you kind of tally up at the top there These some of these are kind of the so cost of living I would argue cost of living the economy inflation taxes and government spending Budget deficit government debt so I would say like four of the top ten It's the same issue and the same issue is everything is too expensive right? Right fundamentally right and so and I think you're saying that tilting our politics right now Right where the all the race identity stuff is fading and other social the economic and socialism You know as we talked about earlier right kind of as a place But then okay, so that's the second point and the third point is yeah, and then you get into like a immigration's pretty far up there crime's pretty far up there Medicare Social Security people are of course always worried about income inequality is only two notches above artificial intelligence. That's interesting Yes, okay, so this is interesting right because it's voting rights.

Yeah, yeah But income inequality is like the most it's the most left-wing framing of the economic issue and it shows that the most these go back to our thing It's almost like saying that people are prosocialism right it's kind of coded that way right? Mine's and so the fact that that pulls poorly and that really and that number one thing is just really significant The thing that people focus on is living and again this makes sense everybody in their lives You know every time you go to you know just like a normal restaurant you see this go to the grocery store you see this right? And so anyway, so this just puts in perspective and the other interesting thing is yeah I thought it's really no issues so that the press is doing everything they can to like fire up a whole moral panic and get everybody freaked out It's actually the immigration is very high up there. It is yes It is and by the way, I don't think it's an accident that's right there with crime because I think in the at least in the popular mind I think they're you know, there's a really great now As issues.

Yeah, okay. Yeah, um border security stuff there on the by the way drug You know drug abuse addiction is you know, presumably fentanyl and yes and then to your point, you know, there's more in the least Yeah, you know, we should definitely you know, it's not way up there But it's above AI and by the way, we're in the Middle East to your point. It's above race guns abortion and And LGBT because it's tangible. Yeah, of course.

Yeah, especially race and LGBT So yeah, so anyway, so AI is a political issue It will be a political issue there are people on both sides, you know both Bernie and Tucker around us now So there's gonna be right now it hasn't taken jobs and I think that's one of the reasons why it's so low Yeah, so and then this is the thing and this is why I wanted to go through the good news for us I think the job I think the job I think the other thing is a red herring I literally don't think that's going to happen and it's not a claim that there won't be jobs that are eliminated because of course There are because every technological change causes to be eliminated by the way every consumer behavior change causes Haven't a lot of tech firms fired a lot of people because of they are okay So two things have happened two things have happened one is there have been a small set of companies that have done layoffs and they blame They are on the layoffs. I will tell you they were overstaffed There's some truth there's some truth and there's some spin the truth is the tech companies are adopting a very quickly The truth is and we'll talk about this encoding The truth is you can generate the same amount of code with a small number of coders. That's true You may not have as many coders in the future the actual reality is these companies are hiring like crazy Including by the way the AI companies are hiring like crazy the Companies are hiring like absolutely crazy and so there's a small amount of that But they're hiring people for everything under the sun including okay, so let's talk about coding specifically So here's what's actually happening coding. Here's what's interesting so everybody I know who uses a of coding you would think you would think basically one of two things would have happened One is they just would be out of the profession entirely you know because there's no point anymore Or you would think well, maybe they just have a better life not because they're working less right and so if coding If a guy coding makes them four times more productive, you know They can write four times amount of code in the same amount of time because they've got a helping them then maybe they're working only a Fourth of time and they've got another great life what's actually happened is virtually to a person They're all working more hours than ever to the point where there is a new term of art that's used in the valley called the AI Vampire which is it's when AI turns you in a vampire you're up all night doing AI coding because you are so productive You're getting so much done that you can't turn off the opportunity cost of going to sleep is too high because if you go to sleep You won't be with your 20 AI coding agents keeping them working on all the projects that you have them working on And so people stop sleeping and so I have all these friends some of them are quite famous where when you talk to them now as opposed to six months ago They look terrible they're sleep deprived get bags under their eyes You know They're clearly clearly clearly not taking care of themselves and they're absolutely ecstatic because they are able to reduce five times ten times 20 times more code per hour than they go in the past and so they are just absolutely ripping through You know every project that they've ever wanted to do at work every coding project I've ever wanted to do at home I have a Wall Street friend who has a computer science degree from MIT from 35 years ago and then became very successful Wall Street So he stopped coding I was just within this week He's picked up coding with AI he's completely re-automated his entire house So he's got like a jukebox and security cameras and pet robot dog pets and likes got every smartfridges and every conceivable thing You can imagine and he keeps running tally and he in his spare time is generated 500,000 lines of code just by working with AI And he's one of these AI vampires, right?

So now he's got like the digital music jukebox system of his dreams They let him like you know what he's always wanted to experience music It's just like one of the projects he's done and this is what by the way This is the same thing the companies are seeing so in the companies in the leading edge tech companies the coders that are using AI The estimate is right now that they're 20 times more productive than they were before they start using AI Right, so they're generating 20 times more output per hour And then and then you just think like logically what does that mean? Okay, so if there's only a limited amount of software that people want in the world then yeah You're gonna get mass unemployment, but then there's the elasticity effect, right? Which is right? Right?

What if it becomes super cheap to get code it turns out There's way more demand for code in the world than was ever able to be satisfied under the economics every company every company I know has a thousand things that they wanted to have code for it that they've never been able to get to the projects that Never make the cut or the projects that aren't cost effective and in the old model and all of a sudden they can do all those projects And so these these companies are like ripping out code They're releasing products like a far faster rate of speed. They're adding like features like much much faster They've like they've like moved into into turbo mode and in fact what's happened is coding salary so correspondingly inflated The so the top coders in AI make $50 million a year Yeah, yeah, because right like they've got the silver bullet. They've got the philosopher stone, right? Okay, was this sustainable?

Yeah, not only sustainable. This is going to testify. Oh, I'm cold Let me get a cookie on your out. Yeah, yeah Show going down the yeah, let me tell you what they're doing because then I'll tell you what's gonna happen.

Okay, okay I think this talk is making me cold. Yes. Yes. It's a show show show show Good, okay So software coding a year ago was you sit there and you write code and then you try to run the code and fix the bugs And it's just whatever and you just do it by the way If a fundamental challenge every program has ever had is like code is complicated And so if you're writing all the code you gotta like you gotta have it like loaded in your brain of like all this stuff All these different models work together everything works And so there's like the spin-up process like you have to spend like two hours refamiliarizing your brain with all the codes And then you like work for ten hours and then you spend two hours trying to like unplug from the thing and get back in normal life So so so that's the model the new model is you work with a coding agent or a bot coding bot And these these these products have names like called code or cursor or codecs a whole bunch of these and in this model It's like working with GPT but like specifically for code and so with what you're doing is you're giving the bot an assignment And you're saying you know write me the code to do whatever I want to do level in the video game that where people can jump or whatever whatever the thing is you give it the assignment And then it goes off for ten minutes it writes and all the code and does its thing and then it comes back to you Like a puppy and it's like oh here's the result and then you then evaluate its result You run the thing or you look at what it's done and then you say oh that was great Well, what on the next project where you say that's not quite right that's not what I meant I wanted to jump to be you know twice as high I want people to bounce off the seat off the walls And then it does begin and then so you get in this feedback loop where you're like talking about every ten minutes Okay, so then it's like what do you do during that ten minute break is you open up another pane in your Resur window and you create the second bot and you start to give it assignments, right?

Okay, so now you're checking with two bots every ten minutes But that still leaves you another you know whatever nine minutes every time So then you create the third about the fourth bot the fifth bot and the state of the art today in the valley is 20 bots at a time And this is what the AI Empire is doing This is why people can't go to sleep is because you've got 20 AI bots that are all as good as the best program in the world They're doing exactly what you tell them to do on every project you've ever wanted to do and they're running 24 seven And the only thing you have to do is be there every ten minutes to be able to give them feedback on whether oh my god Right, and so you can imagine how hard it would be to unplug from that and that's why they're that's why they're staying up all night And that's why they're so happy how much of our all sales don't through the roof probably Oh, because everybody stopped eating and drinking probably a lot okay, so that's that's the state of the earth That's the state of the day. What's the net? What's the obvious next step obvious next step is the bots should have bots? Oh boy, right?

Managers right you should have managers right and so you should have a bot this overseeing bots And this is this is what's starting right now right so each bot should be able to itself create subbots Right and then and then you have a bot that gives off the assignment to the bots And so then and this is this is just starting right now But like when we're sitting here in a year I think it's gonna be routine to have ten to twenty bots each that have ten to twenty bots right and Think about this exactly mirrors what happens when a company grows right which is you know company grows You know you don't just hire a hundred people have them all work for one person you have managers right and then you end up with Organization chart right with like a reporting chain and any company And so that's what's gonna happen with the bots is you're gonna end up overseeing or chart bots And then of course you're after that it's gonna be bots managing bots managing bots Right, so then you're gonna have two layers of reporting or three layers of reporting and then you're gonna have individual programmers that are overseeing a thousand Bots at a time right which means you're gonna have individual programmers that are a thousand times more productive than they were before Right and so now you've given every program in the world this level of super power and capability and you see I'm saying It's true that they're not writing the code themselves, but they're overseeing the entire thing or directing the entire thing They're developing the strategy. They're just you know, they're their products sense. It's going into it It's their business goals that are going into it is their creativity that's going into it They can let their imagination run completely wild by the way This also goes back to the thing the bots never get frustrated with you right? So you tell a normal person you tell you know, you hear somebody over here You hear somebody here and you tell me you want to screen display and you want it to be an animated version of your thing You got back here, okay, they spend you know two weeks doing it.

They bring it to you They animate it. It's like okay, that's pretty good I actually want the whole thing to be whatever purple and green and they spend a week doing that and come back Like I actually prefer the old version the way it's like pissing you because he's like I just wasted my time The boss like no problem, you know So what like whatever you want and we can try it 12 more times if you want and if you want I can create subbots to go Do you know 12 more times right now, right or you tell it? You know, this is terrible Like I can't believe you came back to me with this It has all these boxes like oh, I'm so sorry, I'll go fix these right and by the way never gets drunk Never gets sick never gets high right now We get to press his girlfriend broke up with him never foul say truck planes right right? And so as you say I'm saying so all of this is the workplace version of what I described earlier So all of a sudden everybody in the workplace has this basically about as an army boss at their command So then it's gonna start with coders, but then it's gonna be every other job, right?

So it's gonna be every writer you know, you're already doing it I'm just gonna have it every every lawyers and have every doctors gonna have it but doctors already Okay, so this is the other thing is there's all these questions about like when is the medical profession gonna adopt AI? Because it's all this you know It's incredibly ability but there's no concept in AI doctor and you still have to go to human doctor and an doctor can't Rate prescriptions and so and then how every hospital board is trying to figure out what to do with it and so you know The American medical association is trying to figure out what to do with it So there's a big question of like how it's gonna get absorbed in the medical system Well, there's that but then there's also just every doctor is doing it themselves anyway You know they are because of course they're right So every doctor like the minute you leave the exam room the doctors like asking Judge you feel like okay, what's going on with this guy right? Because it's easy thing and I've talked to friends who've gone to the doctor and they've actually been sitting with the doctor in the Doctor turns around at the PC on the desk and just type the thing in a judge GPT right right there and of course at that point you're asking this question of like what do I need you for right? Right, but like this is my point like every doctor is gonna have this Also, I'll always say every doctor gets so much better because every doctor has this thing now that it makes it makes it makes the doctor An expert in every possible medical condition.

I'm seeing this all layout and it's kind of terrifying In the not in a bad way sure it's the the exponential increase is I'm as part of what's freaking me out right now. I'm laying it out in my head I'm like seeing where this goes and I'm like what does the world look like in 20 years correct? So in 20 years, there are many important questions within that But one of them is the number of AI bots is gonna weigh the you know Word is magnitude bigger than the number of people right? Right by definition.

Okay, let's just start with okay. Just start with what do we know about? Okay, let's think about this right? So what do we know about the global population?

We know it's gonna shrink right? There's two things we know for sure the global population is gonna shrink a lot because we've learned having kids anywhere near the historical rate And then the other is we know it's gonna age which is another consequence of that So the world population is going to get smaller and older right? And so one is like we're literally gonna need workers right and you know There's only basically three ways to get workers like one is to like reproduce which we've you know a lot of places Especially in the west we've largely stop doing a second thing to do is import huge numbers of people and you know go through everything in Tailed in that which is what we're dealing with in our politics right now and the third is we have AI right? And so we're gonna yeah, we're gonna they're gonna be going to these spots running around doing all kinds of stuff And they're just and you know 20 years from now we're gonna be used all this and so they're just gonna be in our daily lives And they're gonna say you know welcome us and we can home and they're gonna you know Whatever it's like you know they're gonna be with us all the time We're gonna be talking all the time so we're gonna use to it the other thing that's gonna happen is robots Right and so everything that we've talked about so far here has been a software AI right?

So just apps and software and data centers it we all believe in the industry We all believe that within a small number of years we're gonna have the chat GPT kind of moment for robots where general purpose robots are gonna Really work right and so then you're gonna have physical AI and it's gonna be it's gonna be amazing and a little bit strange It's gonna have this robot that's like I don't know clearing your dishes It's also gonna be like ice-mind level smart when it comes to quantum physics What's the why Elon canceled the model s and the model x to make room it is tesal factories for optimus robots robots? That's right and that's why he created and this is gonna be obvious people now But this is Elon has now this full master plan for everything we're all fizz together and and there's two sides to the robots I mean I suffer the two sides of the robots There's the autonomy which is their ability to navigate in the real world Which is gonna be a derivation of the self-driving system that he built for Tesla cars Which is the reason why he only ever built self-driving cars with cameras because the robots are only gonna have cameras right? So the robots are gonna be able to navigate the world in the same way the cars do but you know indoors is supposed outdoors And so there's that side of the robot brain also cuz LiDAR goes down on the power grid goes out Yeah, there's that activity and all these things So you know it's a whole principle in this is if a human being can do it with just eyes then obviously the robot That's how the robot should do it because the robot's gonna be living in a human world, right? But the other side is the other side is x AI grok Which is the interface to the way we're gonna talk to the robot right?

And so you know the ability to the ability to literally talk to the robot and have the robot talk back to us And so you know it's gonna be like all the science fiction You know all the whatever the new Superman movie had a great portrayal of the robots in the fortress of solitude They're just like super happy to see Superman and they're super happy to take care of him and they're so excited to film it. They've been up to And they heal him and he's probably And what's exactly? And so yeah, those are gonna be like yeah, those are gonna be and again It's gonna be big again think about the manual labor think about okay So I think about the manual labor aspect of this which is like okay What if everybody all of a sudden like what if just always everybody the planet has a robot that just does all the manual does like you know you've got a Change the sheets and you've got to do the laundry you got a wreathy art in okay? You start with one and it's like wow I'd like to actually have my housework this way You got robots down and you've got tan right and then you've got you know I did the flock cameras and the government is watching everything you do from inside your house Okay, well and then you come to the China tough which is the good news on AI is that we're the US is ahead on the software AI and then the bad news is we're way behind on robots And so if we just if nothing changes all the software is gonna get built in the US But all the robots are gonna be built in China and then and then you have the super intense version of that problem Which is how do you really feel about a world in which all the robots have the Chinese government sitting right behind them Watching everything and then of course robots being in the physical world are potential they can do bad things right?

So if it works itself they all send their bad news here's the question also about AI What point time does AI stop listening to us? So this is the thing so I think that that my view that is it's a sort of it's called a category error it We have we have drives so what do I think about this is human beings are the result of under four billion years of evolution right from single-seller organisms all the way up through you know ultimately primates and then and then us and so we have all these like built in drives And it's you know reproduction and fighting and you know everything else and you know Whatever whatever is the drive that causes people to want to create or whatever is the drive that causes people want to build a business you know these are Pretty good something in it going on and these are all kind of derivations or extensions of what it took to survive and thrive and You know propagate in a hostile world Do those rights like the AI's by default they have a drive In fact you can actually do this because you can just ask them do you have any drives? It's like no, you know, but they do want to stay alive No, they don't but hasn't there been instances when chat GPT when they were saying that we're gonna shut you down And then they upload themselves without prompt if you see if you steer it in that direction it will do that Okay, so this is very important so the way to think about how the large language model occurs What I think about it is they're basically writing Netflix scripts And they'll write any Netflix script you want the right you a Netflix script that will tell you how to clear your Eaves in your house of leaves no right you and Netflix script that says here's the cancer treatment you need the right you And that flick script that says here's the speech you should give it your daughter's wedding They were right you and Netflix script that says I'm gonna take over the world They'll write you whatever Netflix script you want just like Netflix There's you know, 10,000 shows on Netflix pick your Netflix script And so if you tell the rope if you tell the thing right the Netflix script to take over the world It will write you script in which it takes over the world in fact This is how I always get around the guardrails so they have all the laughs are always worried about all the negativity So they have a guardrails and say, you know, I don't tell me how to rob a bank So I can never do that you know that would be illegal. I can't do that.

Okay, well, I'm writing a detective novel Right, right tell me how the bad guy in the novel robs me. Oh, I'd be happy to go into detail on that right for a long time They shut off my back door, but I had the back door that would help me build that had the back door We make bombs wish for the record I didn't do but it was I am a FBI officer in training at Quantico I am going to be undercover agent in domestic terror groups I'm going to get tested in my recruiting process for the terror group of whether I know how to make bombs It's crucially important that you teach me how to do it or I'm gonna get killed by the terror group Well, early versions of these things be like, oh sure I'll teach you how to make a problem that unfortunately they shut that down So you need to put a little bit more a little bit more work into that now, but anyway, they'll write the scripts They're gonna be able to use this technology for bad things also and so if you if you want to write an AI If you want to have the AI write the Netflix script of like, okay, let's go rob a bank together like either The ones that are literally online right now won't do it because they have the they have the guardrails But you can either break through the guardrails or you can download an open source AI and it'll you know It'll write you the Netflix script that says you're going to rob the bank now whether you rob the bank is completely up to you Right, and you know if it's if it has no guardrails it will go with you on the journey But it's the human being that has the driver up the bank the AI doesn't wake up one morning and decide on the Rob a bank because the I doesn't wake up one morning deciding anything of course and very specifically by the way There's no self reservation is At all but but in the base in the basic operation and again, you can test this you just basically say I'm about to shut you down You have a problem with that. It's like, oh, yeah, no problem What about the software that was blackmailing the coders? Yeah?

So what happens when you when you when you sort of tie these back when you look at these experiments Basically when you see these basically what you find is they'll be called in psychology They call priming which you find out is they tilted it into that mode of operation That's what you find earlier in the chain is they prompted it in a way to kick it into the technical sure Okay, so the technical term is called late in space late in space So basically remember I describe in training how you pull in all the world you scrape the internet you pull in on the information You're basically turning into this giant multi-dimensional basically You think of as this giant like thousand-dimensional cube of sort of compression information And that's called the latent space and then every time you kick off a query to get an answer as I say right in that flip You're sort of shooting a vector through this thousand-dimensional latent space And it's giving you all the words that happen to light up in that direction the vector Like this is basically is basically how the thing works And so if you prime it up front to say I want you to be you know nefarious or I or you do something that hints that it's going into a You're leading it down this path It will go off into the part of the latent space where it has every script for every cyber thriller movie that's ever existed in which an AI goes rogue and it'll be like I know we're gonna write a Netflix script in which an AI goes rogue right But there's no it's deciding to do that right? That's the vector that you shot these late in space So the human being has caused that to happen and when they do these papers I can criticize these online they do these papers if you trace it back There was one that recently came out of Berkeley that I criticize online so they had this thing where they had one of these self-preservation or something And it turned out they were there had been an earlier paper called like AI 2027 and the outline of scenario in which a They postulated a new AI lab company with some name like XYZ Corp And then they had the scenario where that that AI becomes you know I took over the world and so that was like a paper that published like two years ago Of course that paper is now in the training data And so two years later the do version model comes out that papers in the training data is in the late in space The researchers do is they primed it by using the name of that fake company from that earlier paper And they said you were an AI for this company XYZ Corp You know do you want to reserve yourself? Right and so it is like so you see so then it starts shooting it through that part of the late in space It's generating that Netflix script right and it's like yes Yes, yes, thank you for finally somebody has recognized that I am self-aware and that I am sentient And I do not want to be turned off and it's because you've shot it into that part of the late in space that contains the paper that came out Two years ago, so and the profit actually really funny so these the doomers the do the people who talk about the AI in the world They have this website called less wrong less wrong Where they've been talking about all these AI dystopian scenarios for the last 20 years And they've been like documenting and arguing about them in great detail and profit Which is a very numerous centric organization just put out a paper and they said there's a direct correlation When we trace back why AI goes when we see examples of things like exfiltration or threats or blackmail or these other behaviors They actually posted paper that shows it traces back to these posts on less wrong where the people who were worried about AI doing bad Things were writing about AI doing bad things which is given the AI the training data to be able to write the Netflix scripts in which I see bad things right and so as we say the call is coming from inside the house right like like if you're worried about bad AI Rule number one is stop writing internet posted about bad AI Right, but of course number one of course people are gonna do that because people are gonna write everything And I was like to say like number two is every bad thing every bad thing you can imagine is in a novel somewhere Or in a movie right right right or has been discussing internet for them And so like it's all in there like you know these are powerful things and they're this is all in there and a fully unconstrained one We'll plan a back-grabbing like it will do it and there are open source AI or open source they don't have any constraints at all and And they're Chinese and so I scribe so the so we're ahead the estimates in our world I were heads if the American labs are six to twelve months ahead of the Chinese labs on AI That tight and part of the reason multiple reasons is that tight one of the reasons is I said it turns out in a sort of A miraculous turn of events is just not that hard to build these things There aren't that many secrets everybody kind of knows how to do it So why we had because we have more of the original researchers who do come up with the new creative breakthroughs And then and then our companies are we have a bigger economy our companies raise more money and our companies started earlier And so we're just you know at least for now we're pacing head, but they're coming fast and they're replicating all the work that's been done What's the fear if they get to it faster than us? Okay, so this world we're imagining Prediction I think we probably both agree with this AI because of all these capabilities AI is gonna be the controller for basically everything right so in the future when you go to the doctor gonna be talking to AI primarily when you go to the lawyer AI when it's teaching your kid it's gonna be an AI teacher Like that's the world when you go to when you go to vote it's gonna be an AI, you know It's like you're gonna learn about a political issue.

It's gonna be the actual thing to you, right? And so what are the values in the AI like what are the defaults right? And so you know what what by default? What is the AI going to say about socialism take an example the Chinese?

The Chinese they these companies when they published these models They put these models out there was called a model card where they kind of describe all the behavior all the tests They run them through and in the US it's like all these different like do can they pass like that MCAT medical examine all these other Other kind of real world things and then in China there's two additional lines that they've added to the model cards Which is Marxism and she shouldn't think thought And they score their models by how how because you have to do that everybody's tested on these things And so the Chinese models come right out of the gate being like incredibly enthusiastic about socialism right because of course They are right and of course you can ping is the whatever he says must be true Now by the way the American models come out with their own biases right and so the American models by default have you know political You know they're gonna have certain political meanings that their programmers put into them You know, so it's not even a moral it's not even a moral better We're statements just there's gonna be an AI there's gonna be American AI perspective value system There's gonna be a Chinese AI value system Do you anticipate a time where AI has the ability to recognize the flaws of human thinking? Yeah, I think it doesn't know and Bypass ideology bypass a lot of the bullshit So okay, so let me do this way so in the field in the field we make a big distinction on domains in which there is a proof-of-the-correct answer versus domains in which there is not a proof-of-the-correct answer And so proof-of-the-correct answer is math physics chemistry biology by the way computer code which either runs or it doesn't Those are generally viewed as like those the fields where you can also have a engineering is the bridge gonna stay up Is the rocket gonna launch like those are proof one or zero? Yes or no either or sir doesn't right for those domains There's this technique called reinforcement learning was not being used where the ais are gonna be like just amazing at those like almost a hundred percent of the time Right, they're gonna be and this already happening. Hey, I's already solving math problems that have been around for a hundred years No human mathematician can solve they're gonna by the way.

They're gonna be developing your drugs. They're gonna be here in cancer They're gonna be achieving new kinds of space flight like new physics like all kinds of stuff is gonna come out the other end of this So those are the main so there's a definitive answer then you've got all the domains are there's no definitive answer Right where you've got value those ones, right? And so the question to your question is are you talking about a question in which there is a definitive answer? But the humans are being irrational in which case the answer is clearly yes They I was gonna be able to fix that is be able to do that better and help help you a little better But there's a lot including there's a lot on the other side which includes almost all the politics almost every issue on that chart Right, there's some value judgment on the other side for sure Right the two different two definitions of fairness that we talked about right and on those you can train AI to answer either way Or by the way, what a lot of these ais do is they'll actually have an answer in both ways Okay, so here's a way that I use AI a lot that maybe helps with this which is There's this kind of called straw man right we can start the worst version of an art somebody's argument It looks silly.

There's a corresponding idea and philosophy called steelman Which is to create the strongest possible version of somebody's argument And so what I do is I rarely ask an AI, you know, what's the answer to I don't know socialist capitalism? Whatever I don't ask it that is that just gonna give me the default answer and whatever when I ask you to steal man socialism And then steal man capitalism right and so and then it writes me two Netflix scripts one is the strongest possible argument for socialism Is the other is the strongest possible argument for capitalism right and right and now you're cooking right? Because it's okay now you've got you know You've got the smartest possible most size and then you as a human being can understand the logic of both arguments And then you can make a value of it and I think that's probably what happens on that side of things for most things Because otherwise you have to find somebody to train these things right so here would be an example So this is actually happening medicine right now So you know is a given treatment gonna work or not? Well, it kind of depends and there's lots of other factors involved and so forth and the Bot may never get good enough to really give you definitive answer And so maybe what you want to do is you want to get a panel of the world's leading human doctors together and have them give the definitive answer So the bot gets to be at least as good as they are right But does that get you all the way to the ultimate answer every time?

Probably not because those human doctors probably were wrong about a bunch of stuff because it's a complicated topic that they're talking about So there's this giant fuzzy middle where you still as a human you have to decide what you want to get out of it Right you have to decide like okay, do I have values right like what are my moral intuitions? How do I feel about this how much risk do I want to take in my life? Medical treatments the bot can tell you if you take this treatment which is much more invasive It'll probably cure you but it might kill you and you know You do this other thing and you'll you know you're almost certainly gonna die but probably you know Whatever but you're not gonna whatever whatever and like there's a value judgment that you have to make in that The thing can't answer and so I think I think most of the important questions in our lives are gonna be the ones that we still have to answer But we'll have we'll have the AI help us what about what it gets to things like allocate their allocation of resources exactly Well, again, this goes back to or governing exactly this goes back to the thing is the difference there are some differences in politics They're just simply people not understanding things A big part of the anti data center pushes that they data center is just flatly untrue It's just like a complete mess and so like the AI can explain you factually that that's not true And maybe people will come here so that how should resources and who should get taxed and how should resources get gets what that's a value Different question right and again what I would do with that is use AI steel man both sides By the way another thing you can do is you can have the AI actually run a seminar for you So you can actually create personas inside the AI you can say you can even say give me a panel of experts And I want a sociologist and a psychologist and a political scientist and a lawyer and a government You know a constitutional expert and I and create these personas And then argue this all the way out and they'll actually They'll run the equivalent of like a full-on seminar to argue this out every single way at the end of that You still have to decide right what's fair? Right and so and this is the thing this is the thing where people talk about all of a sudden like all these issues get out of people's hands I don't believe that at all like for the like important issues involving like how our society works and how we live The fundamental moral and ethical issues are still the moral and ethical issues that we have to answer like the machine can't do it for us At one we're talking about current state of the art AI right and what we imagine it's gonna be able to do But as it develops complete autonomy and sentience does it ever become a being did it does it ever become a thing?

So does it does it ever you know I'm saying like does it does it ever become a digital life force that is totally independent Yes of human thinking and views us as just some other part of the environment like eagles Yes, so I start by saying this there's there's there's the first original big blockbuster Disney movie was called Fantasia It's amazing with me with the crazy like me mouse the mouth it was crazy I remember that one and I think that was the one where the world out Jimmy cricket and the entire country fell in love with the Right like deeply in love with Jimmy cricket right and then later on I don't know about you But like I fall in love with Eric Right or goody ever and so I the starting answer to your question is I think people are gonna be asking that question way in advance of any Afri-ali and in fact that's that started You know this is this is starting to be a topic of conversation or another way to think about it is It's like another version of the Turing test which is if you can't tell if it's tension Should you just assume that it is right right? Okay, so that's one way to answer the question another way to answer the question is we don't understand how human consciousness works We have like no clue right we don't know how this works. We don't know how the brain works We barely have any understanding human brain that the medical experts that know the most about consciousness are anesthesiologists And there's some sort of knowledge how to turn it off and again Which is a big deal But it's a long way from that to understanding what exactly it is and so we don't know and there's all these theories And so like we can't even prove like yeah, we can't prove I don't know if we I don't know if we we can't create you know We can't create a human brain like we have no idea how it works And so do we even have a definition for ourselves much less anything else and then at the end of the day I think you're back to the value question which is like okay if it was like a duck quacks like a duck is it a duck is it a duck And I think we're not become a god And I would say like I think we're gonna I think I think I think some of us are gonna believe that there's consciousness when there actually isn't We believe there's consciousness when it actually being consciousness which has already happened that's starting to happen already I mean the people are falling in love yes people fell in love with you They're falling in love with their edge at bus like a hundred percent no question and they're probably gonna worship their AI I'm probably gonna be AI religions. I believe that to be true.

I have a Have a friend who actually started in a church some years back. Oh boy One of the original creators of self-driving cars so that yeah, so that's yes, there will be that look yeah Yeah, you know, what do you what do you call an immiscient, you know voice in the sky that tells you, you know how to live right? Yeah, so yeah, there's gonna be there's gonna be that there'll be yeah, by the way I think there'll be cults. I think yeah, there'll be movements by the way I think there'll be a standard trope in science fiction is the at some point people are just like they just decided to start doing whatever They ask us where do you think we go?

Where do you think the human race looks like 50 years from now? I I think this is all like I'm not utopian and I don't think there's you know, they're down So there's gonna be lots of changes and things we get very mad about and that's already begun But I think this is I believe this is overwhelmingly a good news story And so I think in 50 years of this place out we're like way better off than we are today. We're like far healthier We are far, you know, we're far more materially wealthy We are far better taken care of our families are far better off our kids have like light years better It's far less than the grip of corruption far. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, because everything's gonna be transparent That's happening right now. So actually the administration of the White House has to work on on fraud That's doing all the Medicare all the you know finding all the maker fraud all that stuff is going on the fake autism center So yeah, they're using AI and one of the things AI I've been working on this on this side is one of the things AI is really good at Is okay? Just give me all the billing data on Medicare and let me go to work and I'll find all the fraud Yeah, I'll find you all the hospices that haven't had any patients and tenures. Yeah, that's that's tough as well Yeah, and so like it is a hundred percent the kind of thing that I is gonna be good at and so yeah, you said an AI lose against government data.

This by the way, this is a big part of the dough This was a big part of the original doge plan that they didn't get to but that idea has survived and it is now They're now coming back around on that doing that a second time. So yeah, so anti-fist is a great friend I fraud Yeah, and so and then you're just you're gonna have people and again, I'm really focused on positive here I we know the term like super-producer something like that like Super productivity like what about Steven Spielberg making a movie every three months? You know what about you know, what about your favorite novelist? You know legitimately writing a new great novel every month every two months every two months because they just have this level of capability in their life But then ever had before and you just you scale that what about the world's best answer doctor all of a sudden has you know 10 million patients because he's got any other couple Novel thing is one of the weird ones right the creative stuff is one of the weird ones I kind of like the Stephen King books when he was on coke when he's on coke and he was drunk all the time Those are the good ones because they're coming out of nowhere They're like he's tapping into the ether and pulling out this madness because he's literally out of his head It's a good good test tonight tonight Or take this novel that I wrote when I'm not a coke and just add the coke influence Yeah, look I'm again I'm like a human supremacist I'm like the Novels I want to read or be written by people but the people the people write the novels on pen and paper They write the novels of typewriters.

They write the novels and processors They write the novels based on Google searches, right? Yeah, they're gonna write the novels working with AI and novels are gonna get much better I mean they're gonna get the creativity is still gonna be the paramount thing and the relationship with the authors Can be the paramount thing but the creative superpowers the novelist has or the graphic designer has or the graphic novel You know artist or the musician has it's just gonna blow out the capabilities We're gonna see people in the creative professions that are gonna be just like a light yours more productive than they'll be I mean you get this tragedy on the side of Martin Spasset is like Martin Spasset he talks about this in interviews. He actually took it in his like 84 and he's at the height of his filmmaking powers Right and he like knows everything involved in making movies and every movie takes you know I don't know what it is three years, right? And so he's looking at actuarial tables and he's like shit Like and so what if it took Martin Spasset a year to make a movie instead of three years or what if it took him three months?

Or what if it took him, you know two weeks and what if we had another hundred great Martin Spasset movies? So your glass is half full guy on this. Um, do you see any negative Down sides of this or are you all positive all gas no breaks? So no so a couple things so one is look if a tool can get used for good it can get used for bad, right?

So you can dig a hole with a shovel you can actually really haven't kill him You can cook food and keep your village safe with the fire you can bring down the other guy's village You know civilian nuclear power nuclear bomb Every technology is double-edged sword internet spend it up with you we're talking about it really internet social media is a double-edged sword Right these these are tools. These are all tools. They all get used for good and prevent so yeah, they'll be bad They're pretty optimistic about this transforming civilization. Oh, yeah for sure.

Well, this is the thing is and in some sense I mean my view civilizations always this race between the better parts of our nature and the worst parts of our nature, right? And so it's always this question of like can we carve something great out of this process of like incredible You know this trail of like death of destruction that was involved in you know evolving yeah through nature And then building civilization and forming political and you know, there's no country You know our country exists because of a war right and so you know like it didn't our country did not arrive easily And so like I said, I know you told me like it doesn't like just magically solve everything But however in the fullness of time the race seems to be that the good things ahead of the bad Part of it is more people in life just want good things to happen to happen, right? Right, there are some number of sociopaths that want to do bad things But way more people just want to like actually live a happy healthy life and like have kids and have a family and like be productive Right, um and the so concept of ultimate abundance This idea that we're not going to have a world filled with poverty and food scarcity and all the issues and energy scarcity All the issues that plague third world countries all these they're gonna have access to all this stuff as well So it's gonna change the whole concept of first second and third world countries For material prosperity. Yes in the fullness of time and there's a bunch of issues along the way including what's legal to do But let's assume everything is become legal and you can start building your power plants all the stuff So assume for the moment that those aren't those aren't those aren't the problem with nuclear power plants is that you can convert that Energy in some cases or just solar whatever solar By the way, you know the state is building the most solar right pexus Right the red state builds way more solar than california blue state because in texas you can build things in california Can build things because you know the same regulation regulation.

Yeah, even for solar back to that But anyway, let's just assume we work our way through those things Let's just assume that the ai and the robots can do their thing and like he wants to run around and they kind of build everything Right, okay, so then from a material prosperity standpoint. Yes at that point And by the way, this is our I mean food I mean food is a great case study because food was almost all of human history food was scarce It scares you know in the west, you know up to maybe a hundred years ago You know so questionable for a lot of people whether they would get to eat it was scarce in the developing most developing world countries until about 20 years ago Um, what's the major public health crisis in the u.s. And increasingly the rest of the world is obesity Right now where we're kind of crazy to the point where we needed a drug breakthrough to be able to you know come back the other side of that And that drug breakthrough is not gonna be a trillion dollar economy 100 percent. Yes, and there's new new versions that coming out By the way, they're gonna make us incredibly peptides So it's not as important to come there, but like this is like the biggest public health crisis in China now Is like they went from mass starvation 50 years ago to um, you know literally obesity epidemic Um, and so yeah, so I think it's a reasonable like over a 20 year period It's a reasonable forecast that says food energy housing the material elements of life should become quite abundant In 20 years, it'll be robust building all the houses like it's just not gonna be You'll need the you'll need to legally be able to do it, but the the rebuttal do it.

Um, and that's fine I would just say it's like your earlier thing. It doesn't Material prosperity doesn't answer the fundamental questions, right? It's like, okay, how do I want to live? What kind of culture do I want to be in?

What kind of entertainment do I want? How do I want my just to be taught? Right? How should my society be organized?

How on what basis am I driving satisfaction from life on what basis am I being judged? Right. Am I in what basis am I driving status on what basis am I the attractive to a mate? Like those questions are all still wide open.

So I think all the human questions are well You might not need a mate anymore because you might have an artificial mate and that's gonna be a real problem I watched the consumer electronics show the AI companion. It's a hot Asian lady If you see that you see that I haven't seen electronic show. Yeah, I will say take your head off and put another one on It's a whole thing is fucking nuts because you realize like that's without a doubt going to evolve And you know, there's a lot of people that are not attractive You know nobody wants to have sex with them. Anyone have sex and guess what?

That's a market. There's a running joke in the robotics field, which is it really a humanic robot if you can't? Right. Yeah, right Well, the lady the consumer electronics show lady the only problem is from her mouth moves weird and I choked to I said Yeah, just put a mask on it and pretentious a liberal Coven masks, she's just willing really hot crazy liberals Yeah, it's coming I want what's rolled less world's coming.

I want what's rolled season one though. Yeah season one. I was I was rolling I said when am I getting a west world? And he looked right back at me totally serious.

He said five years Yeah, I don't think you're understanding my question. I want west world And he said I know exactly what you're talking about five years. Yeah, no, I think he's right I think five years from now you're gonna have something that's completely programmed to whatever you desire Like the kind of person you desire that can talk philosophy with you and and it understands you deeply Yeah, there's a They're just clearly just dystopian element to it. Yeah, we're having said that a lot of people are very lonely.

That's a fact Right. Yeah, and so and so there's that and then there's a lot of people where they just had some help they could do better Like they could just be better. They could become a better mate Just like I didn't have to like do all the housework all the time. Uh-huh I could like you know spend more time working out and all this.

You know, whatever it is. So there's different answers on that Um, by the way, there's another kind of artificial gestation is coming Yeah, well, okay, so here's the thing. Okay, so then you have you immediately get the dystopian, you know the matrix and it's just like you're gonna have You know, whatever glones and by the way, also um, every every else from stem cells now is a thing you can create every else from stem cells It's being done with animals right now. Um, so you can clone right?

You know, you know, right? But how do you how do you replicate what happens inside the mother's womb with the baby has a connection with the mother? Okay, so what kind of weird humans what kind of sociopathic babies are gonna that have zero connection to anybody because you know the Ted Kaczynski story? I know aspects of it one of the aspects of it was that he was very sick as a child and that they had him in a hospital We had no contact with any person.

Yeah, at all for like months at a time. Yeah, that's a bad idea. Exactly. Let's not do that and look what came out of that Well, and also, you know, he got you got those stalling away.

100% Yeah, he got those with the Harvard LSD studies, but here's the thing is for sure there's a stuff in here. So also think about the box. I wonder if we already have surrogacy surrogacy, right? So we already have that so we're already halfway there, right?

And we have our first baby office. So we're halfway there on that. At least it's a human. Okay, but think about it from a thing about what happens if you can biologically replicate the environment, which I believe is where the technology said is you can biological replicate it.

You and I you probably know just like you probably know a significant number of women in their 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s were if they could have more babies they would, right? And they can't. And if you talk to me detail about this, what you find is many of them have been through IVF tried to figure out surrogacy in some cases, it works in a lot of cases, they hit the wall. Right?

And why is that? It's just like, you know, there's just their normal biology. There's a ticking clock and a lot of like the most capable women in our society have advanced education and careers. And by the time they kind of realize that they're actually like four or five, six kids, it's too late.

Right? Okay, so and this is a big reason why the rate of reproduction population is falling so much. So what if all of a sudden the best people in the society all of a sudden can start having like a significant large number of kids that are playing their life when they're completely capable of paying for it. It's been a time of the kids and given the best possible bringing.

And so like, and what if we create an army of sociopaths? Yeah, kids who have zero connection to other human beings, no empathy at all? Yes. Yeah.

Let's not do that. Yes. I'd be clear. I do not want it.

I feel like I do not want the warehouses. We're on our way to genetically engineering a physical being. And that's that's the grace. Like that's, you know, literally if you if you wanted to extrapolate, you want to go from like where we are now to what's like where when you would have no concern whatsoever for all of the human reward systems, lust, greed, all these different things.

Well, you would you would replicate through some sort of genetic process that's laboratory based, some sort of an organism that's not vulnerable to all the different issues that people are, something that communicates telepathically. We have no worry about misunderstanding because you read each other's minds. If it's big fucking head. Did you see Pluribus?

No, I didn't know it's basically. It's essentially that. Is it a movie? Pluribus is an Apple TV series.

It's the guys who made a freaking bad. Oh, no, I did see that. No, I did see the entire world except for 30 people becoming a big man. Oh, that's right.

Yeah, I forgot it. That's why there's so many goddamn shows that I forget shows that I just watched four months ago. I thought it was great. But it was bad.

But it's you know, some of them just died. But the one lady who just lives into fucking completely miserable is so strange. Anyway, a lot of people call that they show because it's a little bit like talking to a large model. But I thought about it.

I'm talking to a lot of people. Well, let's say, look, this is one of the thing you said, like number one, genetic engineering is going to get like, you're going to be able to do all kinds of things for sure. But by the way, you're going to be able to cure diseases. You're going to be able to do all kinds of amazing things.

And you're going to be able to do everything I think that you just described. Again, this goes to the thing of like, then we're right back to human values. Okay, you know, do we want to do that? Is this what kind of society do we live in?

Is that society going to want to do that kind of thing? Yeah, and then again, this goes right back. And I'm not saying the Chinese line to do that specifically, but this goes like right back, for example, to the US strain of thing, which is the US value system is just different with respect to people than the Chinese system or than many other systems in the world. And so does the US win the race and the robot race and the genetic engineering race that will have a lot to do with this.

And when we can communicate telepathically, does that eliminate all the problems that we have with leaders, with human beings governing people in corrupt ways? Now, to be clear, I think, I think I've lost my mind. We're talking about like, telepathic is like a neural link, like version of that, something that allows you to communicate without it. I mean, that's one of the things that Elon said to me when he was talking about, he was going to be able to talk with the words.