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They were unable to determine WHAT? 😭

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: The Women's National Basketball Association was unable to determine what a woman is during a meeting on Wednesday.

A WNBA task force met to talk about transgender athletes, according to ESPN.

“Today's meeting covered a wide range of topics, including ongoing discussions on transgender athletes...” the WNBA said in a statement.

“We will continue to engage all league stakeholders in the coming weeks and months.”

“We will approach these important conversations thoughtfully and in alignment with the values of our league. There are no immediate eligibility matters affecting the WNBA.”

Remarkable. The Women's National Basketball Association needs months to figure out what a woman is.

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David @friedberg explains why education, healthcare, and housing became unaffordable for most Americans

"Education, in the last 30 years, administrative staff in educational institutions has grown by 6x, while students have been flat. The reason is there's unlimited money for education from the government through student loans. No kid who's 18 years old is going to make a good decision about what school to go to when you can go to any school you want with any degree, regardless of your personal GPA or income outcome when you come out of that school."

Sourcery @sourceryy
Molly O'Shea @MollySOShea

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Eric Schmidt is right, something horrible is coming from AI, and the government will blame China just like coronavirus

"Well, I think Eric Schmidt is right. I think the cat's out of the bag now. Something horrible is going to happen sometime in the next year, and then the government's going to say, China's fault, China's fault, exactly like coronavirus. So that's the inevitable outcome. I'm just hoping it's something small, just like Eric Schmidt is hoping it's something small."

- Moonshots @moonshotslive
- Peter H. Diamandis @PeterDiamandis
- Dave Blundin @DaveBlundin
- Salim Ismail @salimismail
- Alex Wissner-Gross @alexwg

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Spotify is testing a skip button that lets premium users bypass podcast ads, except the ones Spotify sells itself

"They're testing a skip button for their premium subscriber, Jason. The button will controversy allow premium users to skip through sections of their favorite podcasts, including the ads, the publisher sold ads. But Spotify is exempting their own ads. So you can't use it to skip through an ad that Spotify sold. But you could use it to skip through like all of the ads that we're putting on our podcast that we're not selling through Spotify"

@Jason @Lons @twistartups

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This is the most thoughtful Zuckerberg has ever been about what he builds

"I think this is the best version of Zuckerberg. I'll say it very clearly. This is the best version of Zuckerberg I've seen in his career. Now, like, my view on his career is irrelevant. But I have seen it from the beginning. And I think this is the most thoughtful approach I've seen him ever take."

Jason Calacanis @Jason @twistartups

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Nov 12, 2010

Elon's SpaceX Tour - Engines @elonmusk

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🚨 SpaceX's TerraFab could replace TSMC and become the most powerful chip move in American history

"I think the power move here for path number two for SpaceX to a trillion dollars is SpaceX replaces TSMC with the TerraFab. TSMC has almost $100 billion a year in revenue. If you could imagine a future where TerraFab is basically TSMC times 10 or 20, it's American domestic. If you roll up the values of Micron and SK Hynix and TSMC, et cetera, so memory plus compute plus FabulousFab and then 10x it, you easily get to a trillion plus."

-Moonshots @moonshotslive
- Peter H. Diamandis @PeterDiamandis
- Dave Blundin @DaveBlundin
- Salim Ismail @salimismail
- Alex Wissner-Gross @alexwg

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David @friedberg says it's not about making America great again, it's about making Americans feel good again

"I don't think it's about making America great again. I think it's about making Americans feel good again. Okay. I think that's like what's fucked up right now. No one feels good about the state of America, even though things are very prosperous. But for many people, they don't feel like things are prosperous. And many people then don't feel good."

Sourcery @sourceryy
Molly O'Shea @MollySOShea

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🚨WORTH WATCHING! @friedberg says a wealth tax isn't just taxation, it's the government claiming the right to seize your private property

"Once you have a right to take someone's private property after they paid their taxes, right? They've earned their income. They paid their taxes. They buy a home. They buy a car. They buy a watch. They buy whatever, a wooden table. And they're like, this is now mine. And the government can come in and say, you know what? We need it because we got to pay bills. We're going to take that from you. That's when anarchy and tyranny kind of ensues."

Sourcery @sourceryy
Molly O'Shea @MollySOShea

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WORTH WATCHING! OpenAI's Astra model solved 10 decades-old math problems with machine-checkable proofs, and the math community is reeling

"Perhaps most shocking is that the total compute cost for this work on Astra was estimated $2,000. In other words, the entire run of solving 10-decade-old problems costs less than a single graduate student's monthly stipend. Field medalist Tom Gowers said he would have recommended the proof for publication in a top journal without hesitation. Cosmologist Will Kenney called it a dark night for mathematics and wrote, the old gods are being slaughtered by the new machine gods."

- Moonshots @moonshotslive
- Peter H. Diamandis @PeterDiamandis
- Dave Blundin @DaveBlundin
- Salim Ismail @salimismail
- Alex Wissner-Gross @alexwg

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There was an internal knife fight at Google between Jeff Dean's Google Brain and Demis Hassabis's DeepMind, and Dean lost

"I think it's actually in the name Gemini. There was an organizational knife fight internally between Jeff Dean's Google brain and Demis' DeepMind. And Demis won and Jeff Dean lost. And they merged them, they merged them, but it was really DeepMind winning. And so that already resulted in the sidelining internally of Jeff, who's been with Google forever. And, you know, basically senior most employee other than the CEO. And so post that knife fight, I think it was only a matter of time."

- Moonshots @moonshotslive
- Peter H. Diamandis @PeterDiamandis
- Dave Blundin @DaveBlundin
- Salim Ismail @salimismail
- Alex Wissner-Gross @alexg

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Terafab is a 100 million square foot city, not a factory, and it makes the Pentagon look small

"Here's the TerraFab. It's a monster. It's gigantic, you know, compared to the Pentagon, compared to Apple, compared to the Mall of America and compared to the Burj Khalifa. You were saying earlier, Alex, you know, you could probably see this from the surface of the moon. It looks like a buckle on the planet, literally, like hand of God could reach down to this TerraFab structure and grab the entire Earth by it."

- Moonshots @moonshotslive
- Peter H. Diamandis @PeterDiamandis
- Dave Blundin @DaveBlundin
- Salim Ismail @salimismail
- Alex Wissner-Gross @alexg

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WORTH WATCHING! @friedberg says the fear that AI will take everyone's jobs is pure fear-mongering

"As soon as AI starts deleting jobs from the economy, I will change my position on this. But I need to see it factually happen first. There was a Newsweek article. You can pull it up. It was 1963. All about how computers are going to take all jobs and America is going to run out of jobs. We're going to get rid of all jobs."

Sourcery @sourceryy
Molly O'Shea @MollySOShea

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WORTH WATCHING! @friedberg calls government pension plans poison that will bankrupt the states

"The fundamental problem with these pension plans is that they will ultimately end up bankrupting the states. Or they will become Ponzi schemes where people get screwed because they're expecting retirement benefits and they don't get them. And they're going to get bailed out somehow anyway. They should all be flipped to retirement accounts. They should all be flipped to 401ks."

Sourcery @sourceryy
Molly O'Shea @MollySOShea

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WORTH WATCHING: @PalmerLuckey dismantles the myth that war is profitable

"Peace is very profitable. There's people who say that war is profitable. I have found that peace is perfectly fine. I am able to make quite enough money in peacetime. I can't really imagine a world where I would myself imagine that I want to live at a greater risk of death, a greater risk of our country collapsing, so as to make, what, somewhat more money?"

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HOT TAKE!

@theo says Apple's closed iOS ecosystem is choking the future of AI

"If it turns out the best use cases for AI are it controlling my device, it navigating my device, it pulling context from different places into one place, customizing how my apps work in different ways, using my apps for me, all these types of things, we'll never know. We'll literally never know. Because Apple will never let us do it."

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@lolong___ WTF 😭