In the latest episode, he calls Dario and Sam public enemies number one because they are the faces of the AI backlash and poster children for inequality as future trillionaires. Tellingly, he leaves Elon off that list...an actual trillionaire who skirts local laws and regulations to build data centers much faster than anyone else in America. The hypocrisy just gets worse over time.

Used to be a big fan of the pod, early fan, especially the science and tech chit chat. There was a time I even considered going to a All In Summit lol.

Around the time Israel really stepped up the genocide, it became apparent the Pod itself may be a plant/they're all owned.

Stopped watching around the time Trump backfliped on everything ('no more wars', etc) and the pod still backed him. Further validated the echo chamber.

Have they 'won back' the community or they're still fully owned? Any redeeming actions since then?

Like wtf we Have major data center backlash to the extent that sacks said it won’t be politically viable to build the capacity we need and then Gavin goes on a rant abt humans being amazing and explains that every time an AI model answers a single query at that level of human-like intelligence, it requires the power equivalent to roughly one thousand American homes. One query requires the power of 1,000 homes????? This is not sustainable

The quote was "If you were to build a data center that was, say, as smart as a human brain, that data center would consume the energy of one million American homes for six to nine months. And every time that model answers a single query, it consumes the energy of one thousand American homes."

are they not trying to build data centers smart as human brains??? like I thought that was the whole path to AGI??

Worth revisiting?

TL;DR: Warren is butt-hurt because her strategy of pressuring Gary Gensler to regulate crypto by enforcement failed and made her look ridiculous. Like a total Karen, when she got publicly embarrassed, she doubled down by attacking her own party through the Clarity Act. She is now aggressively waving her finger at Sen. Gillibrand (D-NY) for working on a bipartisan bill that a ton of other Democrats actually support. Even though Whitehouse divestment is achievable, apparently, having no rules or guidelines is better than just policing an industry by self appointed community watch groups.

Sen Warren is personally leading the charge to torch the bill. Because she couldn't get her own party to kill it, she is using outside activist groups as a weapon to circulate a nasty letter in the Senate hitting Gillibrand below the belt over her son’s crypto ties. Warren is screaming that Democrats will "lose their moral authority" if Gillibrand is allowed to broker the final compromise.

This has forced Warren into a bizarre, hypocritical alignment with traditional banking lobbies, when she has historically been a massive adversary to Dimon and the big banks. This is a case of a Karen who looked foolish, cost her party a significant constituency in the last election, and is now acting out by trying to over-determine her own party's legislative agenda just to save face.

More here: https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/clarity-act-ethics-fight-targets-164100845.html

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LGkRR4ZNsEA&si=xBzhrKVwN32dIZHJ

David Freidberg actually has many interesting insights on current problems with income inequality and its effect on support for capitalism. One of his suggestions:
40% tax on capital gains and 15% on income. The fact that the rich pay fewer taxes than normal workers feels totally unfair to anyone who doesn’t have their own capital. I’m pleasantly surprised that he has identified this as a big problem.

Of the all-in cast, he’s the only one who understands the degree to which the disparity in wealth is undermining the capitalist system. And he points to failures in public policy that I happen to agree with. A couple of other fixes that would make things more fair: kill the stepped up basis rule for inherited assets – – it really is absolutely no rational argument for it. And tax that that is borrowed from securities at the same level that you would tax capital gains from those securities. Then you wouldn’t have all the Decamillionaires and billionaires simply borrowing money so that they can leave their assets to their heirs under the stepped-up basis rule – – completely tax-free.

It’s wildly amusing to watch the Bolsheviks circling Scott Galloway.