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ft @StevenBartlett @DKokotajlo

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Ex-OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo reveals he told his wife to stop having children because of AI and explains what made him change his mind

"When I had kids, the reason to have kids is in large part about the future. It's because you have all these hopes and dreams about how they'll grow up and how they'll go do their own thing. And because of what's happening with AI, I think a lot of those dreams are in jeopardy."

Steven Bartlett: "Presumably you still would have had kids?"

Daniel Kokotajlo: "I've actually flip-flopped on this. My first child, we had her when we were in 2019. So this was before my timeline shortened a lot. I was interested in AI, I was tracking the field, I was making forecasts, but I didn't actually expect it to happen soon."

"When I did start thinking, oh my gosh, it's going to be happening like real soon, by 2030, that caused some reconsidering. And so I basically told my wife, let's not have any more kids, it's too uncertain."

"But that turned out to be really hard, because especially for my wife, we already had one kid and no siblings. So eventually I sort of gave in and was like, okay, we already have one, it's gonna be all right. Maybe the future will be good, and even if it's not..."

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ft @blknoiz06

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Crypto trader Ansem explains why his own coin is different from every memecoin before it and why he thinks it could be the biggest onchain onboarding event in crypto history

"Memecoins have proven to be successful in attracting retail speculation through deeply passionate communities but have failed to produce sustained activity post peak attention."

"Creators have proven to be successful in producing sustained revenues around diehard community of fans but to date there has not been a way to speculate directly on a creator's influence and impact."

"Ansem is the first real attempt at combining these two distinctly different things into one coin that aligns token holders around a unified mission and network. The mission is to be the largest singular onchain onboarding event in crypto history."

"Meme coins have gone crazy the past few years. Dogecoin went to f***ing 88 billion. And the creator economy has been growing a f*** ton, estimated to be a f***ing two trillion dollar market over the next 10 years, and nobody really has been able to tap into how to speculate on that market growing."

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ft @blknoiz06 @banks

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Crypto trader Ansem explains why Hyperliquid's buybacks actually work and why other projects doing the same thing get no credit for it

"Buybacks don't work in the way that people think they do. I think people think just if a company is making x amount of revenue and they direct x portion of those revenues to buying back the token or buying back the stock then it'll definitely go up. That's not necessarily true."

"What the buybacks for Hyperliquid signify to their user base is more so like a social alignment and trust thing more than it is the actual dollar value of how many tokens that they're buying back on the market."

"Hyperliquid not promising anything with their airdrop and just giving it out to their core user base on certain metrics that they predetermined and then continuously buying the token back with whatever it is, 97% of their revenues, is more so aligned everybody that the token is the most important part of their business."

"There are other companies who do buybacks and are doing buybacks where it doesn't have as big of an impact. They could be spending that money a lot more effectively than just buying back the token. They could be doing better hiring, they could be doing better marketing, they could be expanding their business lines to other things."

"The second reason is that they don't have as high of a trust score that something like Hyperliquid does. And I referenced Pump specifically in this because Pump promised that they were going to do an airdrop. They obviously have not."

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ft @blknoiz06 @banks @jessepollak

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Jesse Pollak explains why he keeps showing up in public even when things go wrong and what he believes is the biggest opportunity of our lifetime

"Having a platform, you kind of have to think about that because you have a responsibility to be a good role model. I want to be someone who shows what it's like to actually build something. That's not always in public. It's not always easy. In fact, most of the time it's really freaking hard."

"I don't know. I'm coming on the show. I do that tweet. I do it because I want people to see that even when you get punched, even when you get knocked down, you can get yourself back up again."

"This moment, the intersection of crypto and AI and the whole crazy geopolitical stuff that's happening now and the world starting to unify more through the Internet, I just feel like there is so much opportunity for young people around the world and for all people around the world to make something of themselves."

"I think a big way is going to be people using crypto and AI to build products, to trade, to invest, to create and to do it in this new global economy that's being built. And so yeah, I hope that I get to play a small part in being a good role model for people doing that."

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ft @blknoiz06 @banks @jessepollak

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Jesse Pollak explains why Coinbase believes the world needs a no KYC self-custodial wallet and why it could become bigger than Coinbase itself

"We believe that the world deserves a self-custodial, no KYC, globally available product for your money."

"The really cool thing about the base app is you can be in any country in the world. You can download it. You can create an account in 10 seconds. And then you can start borrowing, lending, paying, trading as if you're on some bank that spent 20 years building out those services in traditional finance."

"For the mission of Coinbase, increasing economic freedom globally, we believe that we need to do both. We need to have the centralized regulated product and we need to build the decentralized, no KYC globally available wallet that makes money just work for people."

"I expect that that actually might be the bigger product that reaches more people over the next decade."

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ft @blknoiz06 @banks @buffalu__

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CEO of Jito Labs Lucas Bruder explains why they decided to launch the JTO airdrop during Solana's darkest moment and what they were trying to make happen

"we started talking about it like mid 2023 the FTX overhang thing was still happening everyone just like shitting on Solana like you know you were around back then it's like the ghost chain and like SamCoin and all this nonsense and from the inside it's like there's just so many good people so yeah we knew we wanted to help revive it"

"we started thinking about doing an airdrop we started talking around there was like some people that are just like you should wait until the market turns around others are just like you should just rip it and we kind of took it on among ourselves to just like let it rip and just get it out there"

"there's been several instances of airdrops before Jito where you just saw these massive wealth effect creation events. Like Uniswap was the main one. And so we really took the approach like let's give all these little guys a ton of money and kind of just see what happens"

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ft @TheoVon @ErinBrockovich

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Erin Brockovich reveals how many millions of gallons of water a single data center drains every day and exposes a case where one nearly 30 million gallons went missing without the county even being told

"So if it's a smaller data center, it could be 5 million gallons of water a day. Little baby center, bro."

Theo Von: "Right."

"But if it's a big data center, you could be talking 30 million gallons of water. Millions and millions of gallons of water."

Theo Von: "30 million gallons a day?"

"Yeah, that they have to use a day."

Theo Von: "A day? To cool."

"Yeah. A typical medium-sized data center consumes about 100 million gallons of water annually. That's medium-sized. Roughly 300,000 to 500,000 gallons per day. However, large hyperscale campuses can guzzle up to 5 million gallons per day. So that's off. And there's some 30 million gallons in there. You can find those around. A massive QTS data center in Fayetteville, Georgia drained nearly 30 million gallons of water without paying or alerting the county."

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ft @TheoVon @ErinBrockovich

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Erin Brockovich reveals she has dyslexia and the surprising ambassador role it led to

"$333 million that was awarded at the time. Now they're selling for like $33 billion."

Theo Von: "Aaron walked to the bank so they could run to it. That's for sure."

"Well, I've always been an outdoor enthusiast. I was born and raised in Kansas, and I love the outdoors. Everything about it spoke to me. Mostly because I hated school. I sucked at school. And it took years before they really understood I have dyslexia."

Theo Von: "Oh, you do? I'm a dyslexic. Hell yeah. You guys don't get any credit."

"Interestingly enough, I'm ambassador for Made by Dyslexia, run by Kate Griggs and Sir Richard Branson, who's also a dyslexic."

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ft @TheoVon @ErinBrockovich

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Erin Brockovich reveals what pulled her back into the fight and says she is now in her legacy phase

"But again, I'm fascinated with the data centers because somehow this has hit me like Hinkley did. And I'm just showing up as that person again."

"And it kind of resonated with me. I may have lost a little bit of who that person was. But these data centers is bringing me right back to it, right back to it, right back to what matters, the land, the air, the water, the people, our health, humanity."

"And I'm in my legacy phase. And for me, this is worth fighting for. I don't want my grandchildren to grow up."

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ft @TheoVon @ErinBrockovich

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Erin Brockovich reveals why she thinks the real agenda behind the water crisis is a massive land and water grab and warns it could be more valuable than gold or oil

"What actually scares me if I thought about it, and I don't even want to dare say it, but I'm worried this is a water grab. You're coming in and buying all the land. Who's getting the water rights? Who owns the water?"

"My daddy always told me in my lifetime water would be a commodity traded more valuable than gold or oil. Are we there? And what is the real grab?"

"It doesn't feel like data to me. We're already consuming a lot of data. To feed AI, artificial intelligence requires an excessive amount of energy."

Theo Von: "Why don't they realize nobody wants that? As somebody who runs a business, you want to do what your customers want. A lot of AI is s**t, to be honest with you. The search of it, a lot of AI is s**t."