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[Arthur B. @ArthurB]

A tell from the Manhattan Project was that scientists who had been publishing about nuclear fission suddenly stopped publishing. As Justin points out here, the lack of cryptographic results in OpenAI's mathematical breakthrough could itself be a tell. Evidence against it would be if they published a few improvements that aren't massive breakthroughs.

[david friedberg @friedberg]

“don’t listen to the experts.” probably the best explanation about the changes being realized from AI and why they’re smashing the experts’ narratives.

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

Expert predictions about AI progress have been stunningly inaccurate

https://t.co/QYinVEdz2l

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

Great conversation with @chamath, @jason, @davidsacks, and @friedberg on all the work ahead when it comes to diffusing benefits of AI broadly, earning permission from communities, and ensuring AI safety and control.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

I’m not surprised to see social media influencers coming forward to say they were offered money to push doomer messages about AI. These are well organized, well funded campaigns.

[david friedberg @friedberg]

@chamath cheers!

[david friedberg @friedberg]

@Anantdvd @chamath flying home

[david friedberg @friedberg]

something different with @ericweinstein …

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

🚨 ALL-IN INTERVIEW: Friedberg sits down with Eric Weinstein

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- The State of Science in America

- Breakthrough Coverups?

- The Danger (and Unlimited Possibility) of Physics

- Aliens, China, and Much More

(0:00) Eric Weinstein joins the show!

(3:09) Has American science stalled? Cowboy science, Fauci, and the scientific precariat

(21:31) Weinstein's fix: Blow a hole in the Civil Rights Act, kill peer review, fund people not ideas

(41:36) Ed Witten drove physics off a cliff, and is Renaissance Technologies a secret Los Alamos?

(52:49) Boom, Vroom, Zoom: Did stagnant physics save the human species?

(1:07:11) UAPs, multi-temporal adversaries, and Einstein's prison

(1:16:12) China poaches our best scientists, AI reads the trash can corpus

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[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

@theallinpod @JensenHuang @satyanadella @rookisaacman @Gwynne_Shotwell Can’t wait, I’ll be sharing a new exclusive video exposé for the first time on stage. Be there 👀

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

David Friedberg: The Socialists Are Coming for Your Private Property Rights

At a recent hearing held by NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a speaker equated evictions with violence.

@friedberg says this demonization of landlords and the good/evil moralistic framing are signals that socialists are trying to erode private property rights in America.

“In 1787, John Quincy Adams had a comment, ‘The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.’

Private property rights are the foundations of liberty in America.

Because if you think about where everyone that came to America was coming from, there were these tyrannical governments where some overlord or some cabal could decide at any point to take the things that you have. You had no private property rights as an individual.

And it was that stasis that drove so many to come to the United States and say, ‘We want a place where individuals, one person, can say, I own something, and no one can take it from me.’

This idea that you can then claim acts of violence, that you can then claim circumstances of extraordinary extravagant wealth, and say to that individual, ‘I now have a right, the government now has a right to take your private property,’ ultimately leads to this tyrannical form.

And it starts out as being anarchic, and remember, anarchy is a temporary state. It's always in between one state and another.

All anarchies end up in tyranny, so anarchy and tyranny are one in the same.

And fundamentally, what's going on with these socialist principles is that, ‘We are taking your private property, and you no longer have rights on your private property. We now will have the right to come in and take your property and control it and take it from you.’

And it always starts with this framing of moralistic intent. ‘We are good, you are bad for the following reasons. You have committed violence against the people that live in your building.’

So the first framing is that the private property owner is evil, and that the private property owner has committed an act of injustice against those who don't have the private property. And that is the justification for taking away their private property rights.

And it is the beginning of this transition towards a tyrannical system, which will ultimately be what I call this kind of Great American Politburo or whatever socialist framework gets set up by the cabal of the socialists and what they're trying to put together.

So all of these little acts, while seeming ridiculous, and insane, and inappropriate, in aggregate are the same thing: They're a transition away from private property rights, which is the foundation of the United States of America.

That's why I think we should all be so shocked. And to John Quincy Adams' point, we need to vehemently defend those rights.

As soon as those rights start to slip away, even in the tiniest way, it is a cascading effect, and everything will become tyrannical, and it will be very ugly in the United States of America.”

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

THE ALL-IN INTERVIEW IS BACK! 🚨

@friedberg sits down with @ryancohen to discuss running $GME and his $56B offer to take over $EBAY

-- Building and selling $CHWY for $3.35B

-- How to compete with $AMZN in e-commerce

-- Activist investing and his road to GameStop CEO

-- What he sees in eBay: Massive potential, poor execution

-- Ryan lays out his three-part vision for eBay

++ more!

(0:00) David Friedberg intros GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen!

(1:56) Building and selling Chewy for $3.35B, how to compete with Amazon in e-commerce

(11:58) Post-Chewy life, activist investing, the road to GameStop CEO, expanding into collectibles

(26:39) Why he wants to buy eBay for $56B: Massive potential, poor execution (slow growth, rising expenses, seller relationship failure)

(43:58) Ryan's three-part vision for eBay: Cut costs, expand live commerce, create digital in-game collectible marketplace

(49:33) Why eBay has rejected the offer, media bias against GameStop

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[david friedberg @friedberg]

I would like to see you make a voluntary contribution of 5% of your family’s $200M net worth to the government for important healthcare, childcare, and jobs. Don’t worry, it’s just one-time. Your $10M contribution will provide free childcare for over 1,000 California kids for a year! Once you’ve made your personal contribution to a more just and equitable society, I’ll support all your other asset seizure ideas. But you gotta go first…

[david friedberg @friedberg]

I would like to see you make a voluntary contribution of 5% of your family’s $200M net worth to the government for important healthcare, childcare, and jobs. Don’t worry, it’s just one-time. Your $10M contribution will provide free childcare for over 1,000 California kids for a year! Once you’ve made your personal contribution to a more just and equitable society, I’ll support all your other asset seizure ideas. But you gotta go first…

[david friedberg @friedberg]

if @elonmusk paid 100% of his net worth ($1.4 trillion) as a tax it would only cover federal government spending for 77 days. this isn’t a tax problem…

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

If Elon Musk paid my ultra-millionaire wealth tax, we could pay for child care for all three and four year olds in America.

[david friedberg @friedberg]

@bryan_johnson of all the crazy shit you’ve done, this is the scariest. but, science.

[david friedberg @friedberg]

government destroys value.

in this case, the value of an American education was destroyed in ~40 years.

if there’s no marketplace for customers (parents of students) to demand value (quality of education for price paid) by simply going to another service provider (school or educator), it is inevitable that costs will go up and quality will go down.

this is true of any service provided by government, which effectively grants itself a monopoly, deleting the opportunity for other service providers to compete in offering better value to customers/citizens…

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

When Jimmy Carter purchased the teachers’ union’s endorsement in 1979 by establishing the Department of Education, the USA was #1 in education.

46 years and $4.1 trillion dollars later, the USA is #40. We are, however, #1 in cost per student.

[david friedberg @friedberg]

never thought i’d say this… i wholeheartedly agree with elizabeth warren.

also, term limits.

being an elected representative should not be a career. there should be no path for wealth creation or perpetual income from representing the interests of the people, in service of the people.

private citizens should enter public service, leave, and return to private life, as the founders intended.

“politician” has become a lucrative career option for those skilled at public oration and persuasion.

while they may represent their constituents’ interests, the reelection mandate incentivizes short-term decision-making and voting, often counter to the long-term interests of the people.

and having unfettered private market access while holding the privileged position of influence over, and non-public knowledge of, those markets will inevitably incentivize bad behavior, to the politician’s benefit, and the public’s detriment.

these ideals may be too far-fetched for our modern political machinery to consider - they would be self-defeating of the machines themselves - but the citizens can still be deafeningly loud in demanding them.

thx senator warren for getting this half-right.. also, term limits.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

It's time for us to ban stock trading for all members of Congress, for the vice president, and for the president. Period.

[david friedberg @friedberg]

a great human being and unquestionably one of the greatest poker players of all time. let’s nominate this man!

[Jason Koon @JasonKoon]

20 years ago I made my first trip to Vegas. I saw the legends in the Poker Hall of Fame and dreamed joining them one day. I'm 40 now and finally eligible. It's up to the fans to decide who the 8 nominees are. If you think I belong, I'd appreciate your vote. https://t.co/8kgXAl66ZY

[david friedberg @friedberg]

they’re not jobs if they’re not valued. they’re not valued if there aren’t customers out there willing to pay them for their great work. needing the government to “create” a job is tantamount to welfare and that level of welfare resolves these individuals to a dependency on the government and lack of economic mobility. and chains our people, collectively, to a more indentured future.

you may be well intentioned but you have, and always will, fail to see the destitute folly of government as a job creation engine.

i have tried to engage you on this topic, in good faith, with empiricism and reasoning, but you have only dodged my points and pivoted to some populist refrain about the importance of taxation and the evils of productivity-driven success.

i can only assume you’re dodging these truths because you and the rest of the politburo leadership have deemed the conversation unsafe speech and put your oligopoly at risk.

let’s leave it at that then.

perhaps if your ways get their day, we can all bask in the glories of the dark ages ahead.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Very amazing email to get:

“Hi JCal, Chamath,

55 days ago you two had a 4 minute conversation about EAs and Athena.

Since then we have:
closed $29M in new revenue 🤯
seen a -53% decrease in blended CaC, placed 683 Athena executive partners ❤️  683 new jobs!!”

If you are looking for an EA, try Athena - they are excellent, only cost $3k/mo and you are helping some amazing people around the world upgrade their quality of life.

https://t.co/WYgRR4aLBP

[david friedberg @friedberg]

in conversation with @spencerpratt …

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

🚨 BIG INTERVIEW: SPENCER PRATT JOINS ALL-IN

David Friedberg sits down with Spencer Pratt to discuss his fight to save Los Angeles.

(0:00) Spencer Pratt vs. the Machine

(3:01) Inside the Palisades Fire: Drained Reservoirs, No Sirens & Watching His House Burn on His Phone

(14:03) Why He's Running for Mayor: FireAid's $100M Scandal & the NGO Corruption Nobody Talks About

(28:10) Karen Bass at 20% & the Real State of LA: Crime, Homelessness & a City in Free Fall

(38:23) Spencer's Plan to Fix LA: Enforcing Laws, Auditing Everyone & the Billionaires Ready to Rebuild

(52:22) Hollywood, LAUSD & Small Business: What It Actually Takes to Make LA #1 Again

(56:25) The Permitting Nightmare Killing Small Business & How AI Fixes It Overnight

(1:04:22) His 8-Year Vision

@friedberg @spencerpratt

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