I have a very funny story to tell you Jason. Where have you been? I've been trying to text you. You've been off long. What's going on? Where have you been? I've been working feverishly, but yesterday I had to go to prepare for some meetings that I have on Sunday, which I can't tell you about. But can I tell you that and I went to Pasalakwa, which is in Lake Koma, which is an, I mean, it's stunning. The grounds are stunning. The hotel is stunning. If you have a chance to go to Lake Koma, anyways, this is us at Pasalakwa. Who's the beautiful woman there? Is that the woman that's that? That's the one that's that. But the best part is we had such a good time. You know how they have like a registry book to leave a message? Sure. So I left a message. Here we go. What? Truly magnificent place. Above beyond any expectation we had. Go below, go below that stop for me. Thanks for you. We took everything. We took everything. The framework. Great. Awesome. Jason, the hangers.
Okay. Everything. The laundry bags. You get to base the roads. The slip roads. Absolutely fantastic. Everything. They're going to have to send a bill to the freebergs. Absolutely. All right. Listen, we've got a great panel this week. It's the summer. Things are slow. Some people are busy. I think our friends of panic attacks, our dear Sultan of science is he's at the beach. Sax is busy. Couldn't make it this week in his place. Another brilliant paypal alumni and dare I say a GOP supporter. Heath Roboi, how are you, sir? Pleasure to be with you again. Nice to see you. And I'm assuming you're in gorgeous Florida or somewhere in Italy. Yeah. I'm actually in New York. Oh, hometown. Is it safe? Is it okay? Mom, Donnie chasing you down the street? Not yet, but it's safe. It's safe. It's safe right now. We'll see on November 4th. You know, as you probably heard until life. Fourth was the first time in recorded history that there were no shootings or no murders in New York on that day. So right now things are in pretty good shape, but we may be we may be leaving New York quickly.
Yeah, you're going to probably want to sell that place if you got one there because Mamdami is going to season and turn it into a drug store for you. Yes, it's going to be a dummy drug store. Travis Kalinick is back with us. How you doing, Bestie? Pretty good. Pretty good. Yeah. Second appearance here on the round table. And third time on the show. Of course, you spoke at the summit. You've been busy with cloud kitchens. Yeah. Lots of exciting things going on. Lots of stuff. Lots of stuff. The robots. The robots are taken over. We're rolling out. We're rolling out robots. Yeah. TK. Can you tell us what you're doing with this pony? I or not, not speculation.
Look, you know, obviously is autonomy as we, you know, in the US, we have, of course, you want to just frame for people that don't that may not be up to speed. What was announced? Or at least why don't you frame it? So pony AI is an autonomous company doing self-driving. It's one of the few players that actually have cars on the road. They're based in China. They've got a lot of operations in the Middle East. They've got a deal with a delivery company called Uber, which you might be familiar with. Okay. So, look, well, the deal was basically that you partner with Uber, license in the pony technology and essentially start a competitor, I guess, to Waymo and Tesla. Let me work on this one.
好的,我来为你翻译成中文,并尽量简化:
听着,你知道的,在美国,我们显然都知道自主驾驶。但为了那些可能不太了解的人来框定一下情况。Pony AI 是一家从事自动驾驶的公司,是为数不多的在路上实际运行车辆的公司之一。它们总部在中国,并在中东有很多业务。它们和一个你可能熟悉的名为 Uber 的配送公司达成了合作。
所以,这个协议实际上就是 Pony AI 和 Uber 合作,授权使用 Pony 的技术,并开始一个与 Waymo 和 Tesla 竞争的项目。让我来仔细处理一下这个信息。
Okay. So, in the US, we have Waymo. We see the Waymo's in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, coming soon to Miami, coming soon to Atlanta, coming soon to DC. They're even talking about New York. Tesla is sort of like the, you know, they're doing it the hard way, you know, classic Elon style. Like, let's, let's do this sort of in a fundamental foliage. Let's go all the way kind of approach. And it's unclear when it gets over the line. Of course, he launched sort of a semi-pilot of sorts in Austin recently. But there's no other alternatives. So, what happens is, is some of the folks who are interested in making sure their alternatives have reached out. They've reached out to me and there are different discussions they get going, because they're like Travis, you did autonomy way back in the day.
Got the Uber autonomous stuff going in 2014. Maybe there's something to do here to create optionality. Maybe like, I'm, of course, very interested on the food side. I talk about autonomous burritos being a big deal, because if you can automate the kitchen, the production of food, and then you can automate the sort of logistics around food, you take huge amount of costs out of the food, out of what's going on in food. And that's of course near and dear to my heart. There are folks that of course I want to see autonomy and mobility. That's a real thing. It may be that, or I would say, if you get the autonomy problem right, you can use it to apply to both problems. So, there's a lot of folks interested in moving things, moving food, moving people. And if there is some kind of autonomous technology that maybe I get involved in, it might apply to a bunch of different things. And so, I've got some inbound. Let's just put it that way.
There's no real deal right now, but there is definitely some inbound. I think there are some news about some of that inbound that may or may not be occurring. That's probably the best way to put it as long as it will try to tighten that up next time. I think it's great to get the overview here first. Paulin, thank you for sharing it with us. And everybody knows you have been doing a bull builder lab 37. I think it's called turn up on the screen. Not sure what the status of it is. And then I'll let you go to him off with your follow question. But I think there's a pretty interesting concept here of the bull getting built and then put into a self driving car. Now that machine looks huge, but it's actually 60 square feet. That picture makes it look monstrous. It's a 60 square foot machine like a imagined running like a sweet green like brand or a Chipotle like brand of making so it comes to life for people who who you know are like, hey, what is this thing?
Imagine you just sort of online exactly the kind of bull you want. And actually this machine could run like many brands at the same time and then does. You build the bull you want, whatever ingredients, it's sort of, if you look at that bottom, you see those little white bricks at the bottom? That's what carries the bull underneath dispensers it fills up. The machine puts it, sauces the bull, then it puts a lid on it. It takes the bull, puts it in a bag, puts utensils in the bag, seals the bag, and the bag goes down a conveyor belt where then another machine and so that what we would call an AGB takes the bull to the front of house, the bull gets put into a locker. The career via door dash, you breathes career will wave their app in front of the camera and it will open up the locker that has the food that they're supposed to pick up.
So it just, it takes out a lot of what we would call the cost of assembly, which is, it produces mistakes, right? We know exactly how many grams of every ingredient are put in. That's exactly what you're supposed to get. And so you get a higher quality product, it takes a lot of the cost out. You imagine ultimately that's going to be, they're going to be couriers with that as well. I like to say autonomous burritos like is a way Mo gonna carry a burrito or is Tesla gonna have a machine that carries food or is there another, another company that ends up doing sort of the things, the autonomous delivery of things. And the point is, well where we are right now is we've got customers. And so those customers are starting to deploy this quarter and it's pretty interesting. I mean, you can see it, the in our delivery kitchens, the cost of labor is about 30% of revenue.
That's what the successful guy, let's say 30% at 35% of revenue in a brick and mortar, in a brick and mortar restaurants, it's even higher. Okay, when they're running our machine, it's between 7% and 10% of revenue. Right. Amazing. The issue got the cost of the delivery. Now it's becoming, everybody can have a private check, which was your original vision for Uber. People don't know the original tag line, but everybody has a private driver. Everyone's private driver was the original for Uber. Basically, the infrastructure is already there. And I said this on one of your recent, I think it was at the all-en-summit Jason, but like in the mobility cars, you know, I'm transport space, the roads were already there. The cars were already built. People weren't using their cars 98% of the day.
So the infrastructure is already there to get people around. To do this as a service and do it very efficiently and conveniently, with food, the infrastructure is not there. Like yes, restaurants access capacity. That's what Uber Eats utilizes. But to go and say like, let's make 30% of all meals in a city, sort of prepared and delivered by a service, the infrastructure is not there. So you have to build it. So our company, the mission is infrastructure for better food. So that's real estate, that software and robotics for the production and delivery of food in a super efficient way.
All right. Keith, where are you thoughts? Any questions for? Well, he's not here, but isn't this what David Friedberg tried to do a few years ago? Yeah, this came up on the last all in. Yeah, there's the last one I was at. Yeah. Yeah. It's a, it's a problem was I told Friedberg, people don't want to eat quinoa. You got a little steak in there. Maybe he's saddening, but he was kind of really, I think eventually he relented and let people have a little bit of protein. But yeah, it's what's such a great vision. Wait, he died as a vegan martyr. I think the business died as he was a lot of people have died on that hill.
But the bottom line is if you're going to get an automation, you have to, it has to be end to end automation. What I mean by that is like there are pizza, there are pizza companies that have come and gone, automated pizza companies, where it's like, we have a pizza machine and everybody's like, yeah, this is amazing. And you have a guy, you have a million dollar pizza machine. And then on the left, you have a guy feeding ingredients into the pizza machine. And on the right, you have a guy taking the pizza out and then putting it in a box and doing all this. So instead of one guy making pizzas, I have a million dollar machine and two guys making pizza.
And so when you look at these, a, a, a, a like a robotic food production machines or food assembly machines, you have to look at the full stack and say, does it work with the ecosystem that exists in a restaurant? And does it go full stack from, you know, like, like we had this thing that machine we saw earlier, the staff preps the food, they put the food in the machine and then they leave. They're gone. This restaurant runs itself for many hours without anybody there. But this could be McDonald's Burger King and Taco Bell. Nobody would know.
That right there, that machine is a, it's an assembly machine, right? The food is prepped by humans and then assembled by this machine for a Chipotle or a sweet green. This is like a, a majority of their labor, right? You go up to a Chipotle, there's like 10 guys at lunch and you're still in line. That machine right there does 300 bowls an hour, right? And so you go, okay, that's the, this is what's called, like the assembly line. It's just that front line where you basically assemble things. I think sometimes I will call it the make line. What will happen over time, you'll have perpendicular lines going into it where you're producing food, right?
So you'll have production or make line going into an assembly line here and then you go, oh wow, so you have it, something that dispenses burgers on buns. That's the dispenser. That's the assembly. But it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, how do you cook that burger? That's what I call, that's what we call state change. So state change is the cooking of the food. Assembly is like, how do I put it together and plate it? Doesn't this collapse? Like, for example, if you have a yield of 300 per hour, you said about one machine. Yes.
Very quickly, you can impute the value of having a smaller footprint store with five of these things in a faceless warehouse with drone delivery or cars. You don't need the physical infrastructure. So then don't you create a wasteland of real estate or how do you repurpose all the real estate? Well, the way to think about is like 90 percent, well, let's say 85 percent of all meals in the US are at home. They just are and a vast majority of those meals are cooked at home. So like Uber Eats and DoorDash, they represent like 1.8 percent or 2 percent of all meals right now. It's very tiny.
So what you're doing is you're using real estate to an infrastructure to prepare and deliver meals to people at their homes. And so it's not the restaurant still exists. We're still going to want to go to restaurants. We're still going to want to go outside. We learn that during COVID. We do it before. We definitely know it after. And so I don't it's not really like a decimating real estate situation. It's taking a thing we used to do for ourselves and creating a service that doesn't hire quality. Sort of I like to say you don't have to be wealthy to be healthy and just infrastructure you get that cost down.
And so you're doing something as a service that needs to do at home. I think in the super long run you're like what where's the story on grocery stores? If you go to like in 20 years I think everybody agrees you will have machines making very high quality, very personalized meals for everybody. This would be good for Keith because he measures stuff down to like 5 calories based on his histogram. What's your what's your body fat like Oh god yeah. It's like just open his Instagram. He pops before. He's like so disgusted with himself at 10%. It's like bad it's 10. But I actually think the vision of this actually the natural implication and maybe the home run version of this is everybody has a private chef in their house. Robot in their house actually does this personalized because people do want to cook at home but they don't have it's fine.
Yeah. Of course space and infrastructure but man these delivery services are charging. Rich people do this all the time right they do these crazy meal delivery services for 200 bucks a day. And this is just going to abstract it down to everybody. And man people get creative when there's empty space to your point Shemaaf about what happens to all this space. When I lived in New York in the 80s and 90s it was common to in Tribeca in West Chelsea where I lived to take storefronts put your little architect's office in the front and live in the back. And many people were hacking real estate. It's only 5, 10 million homes in this country and they're already doing this with malls.
I keep seeing malls being turned into colleges and creative spaces. One of them in Boston they turned like the second and third floor into studio apartments for artists. So you know where there's a world there's a way we could use the space I might know where this goes with Shemaaf saying where the real estate goes is we call it the internet food court where you know you're on Amazon right it's the everything store now imagine that for food. And then imagine you have an 8,000 square foot facility where basically anything can be made. Anything can be made because if you have that machine you saw has 18 sort of dispensers for food 10 different sauces you get the idea.
Now what what about when it's 50 or 100 dispensers for food what if you have multiple machines with 100 dispensers for food. That's crazy. You can the combinatorial math in terms of what's possible what can be made. Sort of you know goes exponential. And so the internet food court is sort of the vision for where this all goes. Another example of the bitter lesson. The bitter yeah we're going to get to that I guess today in a very full docket before we get to that just a little bit of housekeeping here. September 7th 8th 9th in Los Angeles be all in some it again. Well in comm slash yada yada yada line up is stacked.
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Moving to the side you can't even tell us to do that. That's our cure. Oh yeah. Yeah. All right listen. Oh wow. Lots to discuss this week. Obviously AI is continuing to be the big story in our industry and for good reason our bestie Elon released GROC 4 Wednesday night. Two versions base model and a heavy model 30 bucks a month for the base $300 a month for this heavy model which has a very unique feature. You can have a multi-agent feature. I got to see this actually when I visited XAI a couple of weeks ago where multiple agents work on the same problems and they do that simultaneously obviously and then compare each other's work and it gives you kind of like a study group the best answer by consensus really interesting.
According to artificial analysis benchmark you can pull that up Nick GROC's 4 base model has surpassed opening eyes o3 pro google jamin ice 2.5 pro as the most intelligent model this includes like seven different industry standard evaluation tests you can look it up but reasoning math coding all that kind of stuff this is you know book smarts not necessarily street smart so it doesn't mean that these things can reason and obviously there was a little there was a little kerfluffle on X formerly known as twitter where Xai got a little frisky and was saying all kinds of crazy stuff and needed to maybe be read teamed a little bit more decisively many of you know GROC 4 was trained on colossus that's that giant data center that Elon's been building and we showed.
The chart here at schemoff you sent us a link to the bitter lesson by rich Sutton in the group chat that's the 2019 blog post we'll pull it up here for people to take a look at and put it in the show notes maybe just generally yeah a reaction to both how quickly Elon has a net chart showed it how quickly Elon has caught up and I don't think people expected to take the lead but here we are before we start Nick can you please show Elon's tweet about how they did on the aji benchmark it's absolutely incredible two things one is how quickly starting in march of 2023 so we're talking about less than two and a half years what this team is accomplished and how far ahead they are of everybody else that's demonstrated by this but the second is a fundamental architectural decision that Elon made which I think we didn't fully appreciate until now and it maps to an architectural decision he made a Tesla as well and for all we know will figure out that he made an equivalent decision at SpaceX and that decision is really well encapsulated by this essay the bitter lesson by rich Sutton and Nick if you can just throw this up here but just to summarize.
What this says it basically says in a nutshell that you're always better off when you're trying to solve an AI problem taking a general learning approach that can scale with computation because it ultimately proves to be the most effective and the alternative would be something that's much more human-labor and human-involved that requires human knowledge and so the first method what it essentially allows you to do is view any problem as an endless scalable search or learning task and as it's turned out whether it's chess or go or speech recognition or computer vision whenever there is two competing approaches one that used general computation and one that used human knowledge the general computation problem always one and so it creates this bitter lesson for humans that want to think that we are at the center of all of this critical learning and all of these leaps in more AI specific language.
What it means is that a lot of these systems create these embeddings that are just not understandable by humans at all but it yields incredible results so why is this crazy well he made this huge bet on this 100,000 GPU cluster people thought wow that's a lot is it going to bear fruit then he said no actually I'm scaling it up to 250,000 then he said it's going to scale up to a million and what these results show is a general computational approach that doesn't require as much human labeling can actually get to the answer and better answers faster that has huge implications because if you think about all these other companies what is llama been doing they just spent 15 billion to buy 49% of scale AI that's exactly a bet on human knowledge what is Gemini doing what is open AI doing what is anthropic doing so all these things come into question and then the last thing I'll say is if you look back he made this bet once before which was tesla fsd versus weimo and tesla fsd only had cameras it didn't have lidar.
But the bet was I'll just collect billions and billions of driving miles before anybody else does and apply general compute and it'll get an autonomy faster than the other more laborious and very expensive approach so I just think it's an incredible moment in technology where we see so many examples travis is another one what he's just talked about you know the bitter lesson is you could believe that you know food is this immutable thing that's made meticulously by hand by these individuals or you can take this general purpose computer approach which is what he took waited for these costures to come into play and now you can scale food to every human on earth I just think it's a it's so profoundly important.
One thing I'll throw out there to moth is the tesla approach for autonomy is taking human knowledge in fact the whole idea is to approximate human human driving right this is the whole damn thing now depending on your approach and the technology you can do like what's called an end to end approach or you can look at okay perception prediction planning and control which are like these four modules that sort of you you sort of engineer if that makes sense but it's approximating human driving to do it the difference is that you know I think Elon's taken a it almost a more human approach which is like I've got two eyes why can't my car why can't my car do it like a human like I don't have any lidar spinning around on my head as a human why can't my car so it's kind of interesting he's sort of taking what you're saying to moth on the computation side because hardware five is coming out on tesla probably next year which is going to make a big difference in what fsd can do that's the compute side you're talking about but then he is approximating human.
Yeah I just spent that you know other than the first versions of fsd which I think Andre talked about hundred carpet he talked about you know they're not really so reliant anymore on human labeling per se right so that's back yeah that that interference and then yeah the other crazy thing that he said subsequent versions of grog are not going to be trained on any traditional data set that exists in the wild the cumulative some of human knowledge has been exhausted in AI training that happened basically last year and so the only way to then supplement that is with synthetic data with AI creates it'll sort of write an essay or come up with with the thesis and then it will grade itself and and sort of go through this process of self-learning with synthetic data he said that he's going to have agents creating synthetic data from scratch that then drive all the training.
Which I just think is it's crazy just explain this concept one more time with a better lesson hand coding heuristics into the computer and saying hey here are specific openings and yeah use yeah use chest right yeah chest coding specific examples of openings in their end games etc versus just saying play every possible game and here's every game we have so here's the yeah so the two approaches would be let's say like Travis and I were building competing versions of a chest solver and Travis's approach would say I'm just going to define the chess board I'm going to give the players certain boundaries in which they can move right so the bishop can only move diagonally and there's a couple of boundary conditions and I'm going to create a reward function and I'm just going to let the thing self-learn and self-play that's his version.
And then what happens is when you map out every single permutation when you go and play Keith who's the best chess player in the world what you're doing at that point is saying okay keep made this move so you search for what Keith's move is and you have a distribution of the best moves that you could make in response or vice versa that was the cutting edge approach the different approach which is more you know what people would think is more quote-unquote elegant and less brute force would be Jason for you and I to sit there and say okay if Keith moves here we should do this we should do this specific variation of the Sicilian defense and and it's too much human knowledge and I think what what it turned out was there was a psychological need for humans to believe we were part of the answer but what this is showing is because of Moore's law and because of general computation it's just not necessary you just have to let go give up control and that's very hard for some people.
And there's also very hard on some circumstances where a car is driving down the road and it's learning in that process which is why he needs safety driver and I think Elon made the right decision to put one in there Keith you're awesome yeah a couple of points it's not quite that binary schemoff I generally agree with your art but if you think about LLM's being the most important unlock in AI LLM's are all trained on human writing so if someone wrote every piece of data that every LLM used a human wrote at some point in history so yes it's true that they've shocked everybody including open AI's you know original team on the implications the broad implications the general applicability to almost every problem but it's not like there was some tablets floating in space that weren't drafted by humans that we've trained on as you get in non LLM based models you may be totally right but almost no one's really using non LLM based models at scale on driving specifically.
Travis is totally right the humans are actually really good drivers except when they get distracted they get distracted by drugs or alcohol they get distracted by being tired they get distracted by turning the radio they get distracted by chatting with their passenger so trading against human behaviors actually turned out to be a great decision because what for whenever said are Darwinistic reasons humans are pretty ideal drivers and so you don't have to reason from first principles this is a much better path and I think again there may be a broad sort of lesson there the most important thing I think as I've you see that you said as we've been debating for years should we invest in companies like scale or work or any of these surge.
The truth is I think there's a very short half-life on human label data and so everybody who's investing in these companies just look at revenue traction really didn't understand that there may be a year two years three years max when anybody uses human label data for maybe anything because we hit the end of human knowledge or just the collection of it or you 99% done or you train on you train on it so well that you don't need to label anymore like the machines know how to label as good or better than a human and so like we're seeing this in the self-driving space is labeling was huge right you would have a three dimensional sort of scene that's created by video plus LiDAR let's say okay I have to label all of these essentially would become boxes like I've identified objects you're you're some of the players in the in the autonomous software space the tons of vehicle software space are no longer doing any labeling because the machines are doing it all just probably it'll just be built into the chipset that this is a stop sign like it's like we know what a stop sign is we don't need the millionth time for some like the captures like you're like find the stop sign or what's the traffic light and eventually the machines are just way better.
The humans that identify these things for you to be very practical when you see a stop sign you don't have to identify that it's a stop sign you just see that every human when they encounter a stop sign 99.9% of the time they hit a break and they never actually nobody actually knows it's a stop sign it's just that hit a break when you see something that looks like this object it's just a vibe yeah it's a vibe I would just say that that's like intuitive knowledge versus like the expressly labeled human knowledge the question for me is if everybody was so reliant on human labeling initially if you're an investor now when you see these grok for results how do you make an investment decision that's not purely levered to just computation.
So if you look at these results does it mean that the you know there's 300 to a thousand basis points of lag between just letting the computers vibe itself to the answer versus interjecting ourselves if interjecting ourselves slows us down by 300 to a thousand basis points per successive iteration then over two or three iterations you've totally lost so what does it mean for everybody that's not grok when they wake up today and they have to decide how do I change my strategy or double down I think look I'm not in the investment game but if I were it would be all about scientific breakthrough so I sometimes get in this place where I'm looking I'm going down a path I'll be up at four or five in the morning my day hasn't quite started but I'm not sleeping anymore and I'll start like I'll be on Kora and see some cool quantum physics question or something else I'm looking into and I'll go down this thread with GPT or GRO and I'll start to get to the edge of what's known in quantum physics and then I'm doing the equivalent of vibe coding except its vibe physics and we're approaching what's known and I'm trying to poke and see if there's breakthroughs to be had.
And I've gotten pretty damn close to some interesting breakthroughs just doing that right you know I pinged. I pinged you on at some point I'm just like dude if I'm if I'm doing this and I'm super amateur hour physics enthusiast like what about all those PhD students and postdocs that are super legit using this tool and this is pre GROC 4 now with GROC 4 like like there's a lot of mistakes I was seeing GROC may that then I would correct and we would talk about it GROC so it could be this place where breakthroughs are actually happening new breakthroughs so if I'm investing in this space I would be like who's got the edge on scientific breakthroughs and and the application layer on top of these foundational models that orient that direction is your perception that the LLMs are actually starting to get to the reasoning level that they'll come up with a novel concept theory and have that breakthrough or that we're kind of reading into it and it's just trying random stuffs at the margins it's uh or maybe it doesn't have no no so what I what I've seen and again I haven't used GROC 4 I tried to use it early this morning but for some reason I couldn't do it on my on my app.
But so let's say we're talking GROC 3 and existing chat GPT as it is no it cannot come up with the new idea these things are so wedded to what is known and they're so like even when I come up with a new idea I have to really it's like pulling a donkey source you just you're pulling it because it doesn't want to break conventional wisdom it's like really it's hearing to conventional wisdom you're pulling it out and then eventually goes oh shit you got something but then when it says that when it says that then you have to you have to go okay it's said that but I'm not sure like you have to double and triple check to make sure that you really got something to your point when these models are fully divorced from having to learn on the known world and instead can just learn synthetically yeah then everything gets flips upside down to what is the best hypothesis you have or what is the best question you could just give it some problem and it would just figure it out.
So where I go on this one guys is it's all about scientific method right if you get if you have an LM or foundational model of some kind that is the best in the world with the scientific method game the F over you basically you just light up more GPUs and you just got like a thousand more PhD students working for you keep your nodding your head here okay I agree with that I think that's fantastic because the scientific method also the faster it is the more you when you have a hypothesis the faster you get a response you're more likely to dive in and dive in and recursively and recursively and every lag every millisecond lag it causes you to like lose your train of thoughts sort of so speak so you get the benefits the Travis leading to plus speed and you go places you never really got this happens all the time when you run a company and you're doing like analytics and you have a tool that allows you to constantly query quickly quickly quickly double click triple click you get to answers that you never get to either there's even a second or two second or three second boy let alone standing at you human.
Secondly were you actually see this today it's already happening if you look at foundational models that just apply to science there's lots of things about the human body let's say health biology that we humans don't actually understand all the connections like why do we do acts why do some people get cancer right out of the people not get cancer why does the brain work this right models trained solely on science tend to expose connections that no human has ever had before and that's because like the raw materials and we only have a conscious awareness of thought 110 percent but when you apply it to other human domains where they're training on human sort of data human produced data human produced output they're limited to that output
so I think you just take the science and apply it writ large and you're going to want to find anything that no human has ever thought before and it's the thing about science though is that it's the hypothesis that you then have to test in the physical world so the you're like okay have you got this hive mind this like you know this computation engine this brain of sorts you wanted to say consciousness but you stop your stuff yeah I was like I was like how do I just guys the big C word yeah conscious of that but but you need to be able to test in the physical world
so you got to imagine a physical lab connected to one of these systems where then you could say okay like you have as a chemistry experiment you could do chemistry experiments or physics you get the idea what could go wrong it would be it's yeah no big deal it's going to be fine okay so but this is where it goes because if you have a scientific method machine you still have to be able to test your hypothesis you have to go through the science and the verification
yeah exactly yeah wow it's kind of mind blowing reminds me of mind blowing remember I don't know if you guys remember dark matter and like the discovery of it and everything and as explained to me by Lisa Randall you know the the discovery was made not by knowing there was dark matter there and observing it but observing there was something you know gravitational forces around this other matter and then they said wait what's causing that and that's where they found dark matter
so these ideas you know the idea that lllm could actually do that come up with something so novel is it doesn't it feels like we might be right there right like we're kind of on the customer one of the seven most difficult problems in math with the most important problems in math is proving a general solution to this thing called mavius tokes which is basically like viscous fluid dynamics and conservation in us we use it every day in the design of everything you know what it hasn't been proved isn't that the craziest thing where you're just like how is this even possible we use it to design airplanes to design everything
it hasn't been proved and so you could just point a computer at this thing and you would unlock all these incredible mysteries of the universe and we would probably find completely different propulsion systems we could probably do things that we didn't think were possible teleportation i mean who knows what's possible
remember remember you know how Elon talks about Brock and about AI generally is about why are we here what is the purpose meaning of the universe what is the meaning of the universe how does it work and it's sort of fierce true seeking mechanism there let me ask you a question Keith Travis Jason if you guys were running Grock for to be so much fun how do you judo flip open AI because they are marching steadfastly towards a billion mile then a billion down it's a juggernaut so how do you use the better product in a moment to judo flip the less better product
look yeah i mean here's the thing right so you do that you on way so you you get a bunch of missionary like full on missionary engineers that work twice as hard and you have a culture that is ultra fierce true seeking and you don't you don't get caught up in politics bureaucracy yes and you just you go for it and I think you know that's where you know and then you go wow scientific breakthrough scientific method like you start winning on truth and that will start I believe that will start to give the product awesomeness of open AI
I run for its money but like the product of open AI the product department those guys are brushing they're really good they're not only ahead of the game but they feel like it just they're just leading in a lot of different ways but if you are better at truth you will eventually you'll eventually have an AI product manager
yeah and on a technical basis too people forget how good Elon is at factories and physical real world things what he did standing up colossus made like jensen was like how is this possible that you did this right so pressing that his ability to build factories and he said many times like the factory is the product of Tesla it's not the cars that come out of factory or the batteries it's the factory itself so if he can solving the energy problem with solar on one side and batteries and standing up you know colossus 2 3 4 5s he's going to have a massive advantage there on top of Travis you know the missionary individuals which by the way was what he backed before him Altman corrupted the original missionary basis of opening i made it closed AI in a you know nothing derogatory towards him but he did hoodwink and stand you on in the back is not nothing personal i mean he just screwed him over and would you say he banned boozled him bamboozled him screwed him hoodwinked him you know could pick your term here but he did it well he didn't dirty the original mission was to be like a shy open source all this content that's the other piece i think is a wild card and then I'll measure certain kids position but open sourcing some of this could have profound ramifications.
I think open sourcing the self-driving data could have a really profound impact you want to do something really disruptive like he open sources patents for you know charging if he open sourced the data set and self-driving does anybody have the ability to produce robo taxis that the scale he can do it i don't think so so many just hypothesis is true then yet everybody will well everybody will what sorry everybody will what you want if you have access to the money that buys the compute everyone could solve that problem but so far there a piece i'm talking which problem he said he said if he if he published all the fsd data could somebody build an autonomous vehicle well yes but could somebody produce a hundred million robo taxis from a factory with batteries in them okay that's a different that's a different question i'm saying and not really because it's like last time i was a guest on you know all and we talked about vertical integration uh products really require vertical integration so ultimately you have a self-driving something that is custom built for knowing it's going to be self-driving and it interacts differently the cost structure is different the controls are different the seating is different everything you build a product taking advantage of where the stock you have the most competitive advantage but then you leverage that and it reinforces and still while like Apple despite missing the AI still a pretty good company from any empirical standpoint.
I mean like the performance is absolutely miserable on the most important technology through the last 70 years but the company still alive and still worth for a dollar because it's vertically integrated open AI at pretty a point they do have a good product team and they need to stay ahead on the product level because they can't compete on the factory level the way to stay ahead of the product level is shipping a device they've got to ship the device it's got to be good it's got to be right it's got to be the right form factor it's got to do things for humans that are unexpected but then if they do that they're like apple plus AI. Jamal what's the paper you're talking about before it was a name of it then the bitter lesson that it could apply to autonomous driving is right now it's still like hey how do i drive like a human we talked about that but the leapfrog moment here could be like hey drive a car make sure it's efficient don't hit anybody and just simulate that quadrillion times and it's all good right but right now we're still trying to drive like humans because we don't have enough data and therefore can't do enough compute that's the global lesson by the way too often you're totally right conceptual you know the blog post is right but that's only true when you have enough data and depending on the use case the level of data you need may not be possible for years decades and you may need to hack your way there through human interaction.
Yeah physical world AI is lacking in data and so you just try to approximate humans. I don't know if you guys have seen this in related news open AI and perplexity are going after the browser perplexity launch comment for their $200 a month tier I actually downloaded I'll show you in a second but this is a really interesting category something developers can do already and they do it all the time you know but having your browser connected to agents let you do really interesting things I'll show you an example here that I just fired off while we're talking so I just asked it hey give me the best flights from United Airlines and business class from New York City from San Francisco to New York City it does some searches but what you see here is it's popped up a browser window and it's actually doing that work and you can see the steps it's using and then I can actually open that browser window and watch it do that this is just a screenshot of it and it will open multiple of these so you could I was doing a search other day saying like hey tell me all the auto biographies I haven't bought on Amazon put them into my you know shopping cart and summarize each of them because I like biographies I like doing it here and when it did this last time it put my flight into like and I was logged in under my account and it basically put it into my account in the checkout.
So again this isn't like if you're a developer you do this all day long but this really seems to be a new product category I'm curious if you guys have played with it yet and then what your thoughts are on having an agentech browser like this available to you to be doing these tasks in real time you can also connect obviously your Gmail your calendar to it so I did a a search tell me every restaurant I've been to and then put it by city and then I was going to open my open table and then pull that data as well what's interesting about this Keith and I know you're a product guy and you've done a lot of product work I'm curious your thoughts on it is you don't have to do this in the cloud you're authenticated already into a lot of your accounts nor do you have to worry about being blocked by these services because it doesn't look like a scraper or a bot it just that your browser doing the work your thoughts on this and we play with it at all.
Yeah I think it's a great Hail Mary attempt by Proplexity I think obscen something like this Proplexity is toast like for the stat about chat you be going to a billion users like it's becoming the verb you know the way you describe using AI for a normal consumer there's nothing left in Proplexity if they can't pull this off so it's a great idea because like the history of like consumer technology companies is whoever's up has uphill ground like in a military sense whoever's first has a lot of control this is actually what Google should be doing truthfully like I think Google's also Google search quast search is toast and since they have Chrome and they theoretically have a quality team in Gemini they should be putting these two things together and hoping to compete with Chad GPT they are going to lose the search game like the assets they're best at Google right now have nothing to do with search and to every other product is the only thing that's going to save that company if they can put figure out how to use them.
Travis your thoughts on this category anything come to mind for you in terms of you know feature sets that would be extraordinary here I know you like to think about products in the consumer experience well it's really interesting so you know I've been spending yes you guys know I've been spending my time on real estate and construction and robotics and so I've been out of this kind of consumer software game for a long time but super interesting over the last six months there have been a number of consumer software CEOs like when I hang out them or whatever they're like you know how are we gonna how are we gonna keep doing what we do when the agents take over yeah the paradigm shift is so profound that the idea that you would visit a web page goes away and you're just in a chat don't you have an agent it's just taking care of your flights for you.
So I I kind of I think there's a leapfrog of over that I think it's just like you tell something yo I want to go to New York can you you know I'm sort of looking at this time range can you just go find something I'm probably gonna like and give me a couple options yeah and it's just a whole you have an interface and then you know is perplex is this thing that you just show them perplexly is that the interface or do I just have an agent that just goes and does everything for me and is this the start of that I yeah I just haven't spent enough time I I do know that every consumer software CEO that has an app in the app store is tripping they're tripping right now and I mean big boys I mean guys with real stuff and sometimes I I'm doing like almost like therapy sessions. with them and like it's gonna be fine you actually you actually have stuff you have a note you have real stuff that's a value they can't replace it with an agent and they're lying to them you're doing hospice care and you're telling them everything's gonna be okay but the patient stops you have options on a lot of good ones like yeah tell me more tell me more yeah guys there's certain things that are protected and there's certain not things that aren't that's all well let's talk about that because the you and I are old enough to remember general magic this vision was out there a long time ago with personal digital assistance and you would just talk to an agent it would go do this for you this feels like a step to that where it does all the work for you presents you the final moment and says approve so like a car you're a sure a butler yeah I think what you're describing is what we want but I think more specifically for today Keith and Travis totally nail it look I think building a browser is an absolutely stupid capital allocation decision just totally stupid and unjustifiable in 2025 specifically for perplexity.
I think their path to building a legacy business is to replace Bloomberg everything that they've done in financial information and financial data in going beyond the model is been excellent as somebody who's paid $25,000 to Bloomberg for many years the terminal is atrocious it's terrible it's not very good it's very limited and anybody that could build a better product would take over a $100 billion enterprise because I think it's there for the taking I wish that perplexity would double and triple down on that and so when you see this kind of let's do it let's do it you're off let's just go do it when you do the random sprawl I think it doesn't work I just want to say like a browser is like the dumbest thing to build in 2025 because in a world of agents what is a browser it's a glorified markup reader it's like handling HTML it's handling CSS and JavaScript it's doing some networking it's doing some securities it's doing some rendering but it's like this is all under the water type stuff I get it that we had to deal with all that nonsense in 1998 to try like us or google for the first time.
But in 2025 there's something that you just speak to and eventually there's probably something that's in your brain which you just think and it just does it you're thinking I need a flight to JFK or at the maximum today in a very elegant beautiful search bar you type in get me a flight and it already knows what to do key then some ways this is a step towards that ultimate vision so you'd think it's worth it to you know sort of forplexed to make this waypoint perhaps if you look at as a waypoint between the ultimate vision which is a command line an earpiece a honey get distribution Jason for the 19th web browser in 2025 well yeah that is a challenge and I think most people are speculating apple which has a lot of users might buy complexity or do a deal with perplexity and give them that distribution because of the justice department case against google so there's been a lot of speculation about that but Keith what do you think.
I don't think they'd buy anything worth it like what is apple again and we continue this failed strategy of apple right apple has missed every possible window on a uh and continues to miss it and it has cultural I think the CEO has challenges I think culturally they have challenges and they have infrastructure challenges so it's not easy fix but by complexity not going to help like to master edge he's actually pretty coherent one for complexity quad perplexity uh so I think that's not a vertical and only strategy not a bad idea um especially because you need unique data sources some of those data sources may or may not license their data to open AI so you can do some clever things there but um I don't think there's any residual value that apple would get out of perplexity except there's some product taste but what are you going to spend like a billion dollars for product taste.
I mean mark spending hundreds of millions of dollars or hundreds of billions of dollars or whatever he's spending these days and you know grog of anything. rock four shows that mark really it doesn't need to spend money to build a whole new team because everything they've done in AI is also missed the vote well I mean Keith the way you phrased it there almost makes it worth it for apple to throw a hell marry have a team with some taste because that's how they tend to do things is something that is elegant and why not just throw your search to it throw 10 billion at what's elegant it's a through be a bunch of what's elegant would be if there's a bunch of agents and just a chat box seeing a bunch of visual diarrhea is not elegant it's lazy right on our on our little blue bird clone I'll give you naming rights so you can call it like you like it poly hapatilla.
So hey can somebody can somebody bring up the poly hapatilla you know what's so funny it's just it's rules right off your tongue TK listen we were trying to do a screen of companies and it maxes out at five companies on a specific type of screen where like you're trying to compare stock price to EBIT and you're like okay I can only choose five I guess so which five should I choose what font was on right like two episodes ago he was like I can't pull this off it's limited to six companies dude you it's so what do people use blue and four five they use it for the messaging now like my team has traded huge position via text message on bloombrook so there is something very valuable there but the core usability and the core UI of that company has not evolved.
I have my contribution and complexity is very good at that by the way it they they do a very good job I got a new domain in Travis let's just one just sink in here this is my way to weasel my way into the deal begin that you know I do I'm just a little I snipe some good ones once from I got begin dot com and I got annotated dot com those are my two little little things you're like you're like one of these old people that show up at the oh my god show and then they all said he got a big show and you're like oh I have this thing that I bought 1845 guys Jason Jason is Jason is the daddy and go daddy okay daddy you're daddy.
Hey speaking of daddy let's go on oh is now the right time for their party you lot seems to think so last week he announced that axi would be creating a new political party I'll let you decide who daddy is in this one uh he said quote when it comes to bankrupting our country with waste and graph we live in a one-party system not a democracy he's not yet outlined a platform for the American party we talked about it here last week I listed four core values which seem to get a good reaction on x fiscal responsibility slash does sustainable energy and dominance in that manufacturing in the US which Elon has done a single handily here pronatalism which I think is a passion project for him and Shabbat you punched it out with the fifth technological excellence according to polymarket 55% chance that you on registers the American party by the end of the year.
And you know one thing I was trying to figure out is just how unpopular all these candidates and these political parties this is a very interesting chart that I think we can have a great conversation around it turns out we used to love our presidents if you look here from Kennedy at 83% as high as approval rating his lowest was 56% that was his lowest approval rating so he operated in a very high band look at bush two during after 9-11 92% with his peak his lowest was 19 right with wartime president but then you get to trump one Biden and trump two historically low high approval their high water 49 for trump one 63 for Biden one of one and then 47 for trump two and there a lowest 29 31 40 so maybe it is time for a third party candidate let's discuss it boys I have no idea how to read this graph it's the worst unlike what is happening here this is the worst form at a chart this is a confusing chart but well the reason I'm putting it up is for debate so thank you for debating that it's trading great debating why did you put it up
Here's another one Gallup pole Americans desire for a viable third party 63% in 2023 so it's it's bumping along in all time hi okay I'm really concentrating on this one okay anyway I'm gonna stop there what's the gray I'm gonna let you okay got it I got it different sense I got time period and how popular party let's stop here this is a good there's a good place to stop I just blew it yeah look a couple points yes the idea of Elon Musk's third party is for any other human being like absolutely absurd ridiculous Elon has obviously done incredible things so dismissing anything he's touching is a bad idea however I think the best metaphor I've seen is it's a little bit like Michael Jordan tried to play baseball okay he came a replacement level baseball player which actually really hard to do by the way Elon is probably a replacement level politician he's Michael Jordan for entrepreneurial stuff but the third party stuff is not going to work.
First of all their that chart is misleading it's a flaw of average it's badly designed and it's a flaw of average it's quite there's incredibly popular among Republicans he actually has the highest approval rate of any Republican ever measured in recorded history it's 95% Reagan was peaked out 93% it's just Democrats don't like them which is perfectly fine being polarizing is is an ingredient to being successful including with people on the show like the point of accomplishing things in the world is you don't really care what half the world thinks you need to make sure that there's a lot of people who like you and really approve and earth is the aspect about what you do and Trump is about as popular with his party as anybody's ever been ever pureed no exceptions.
Secondly there's maga has kind of already uh changed the Republican party Trump is sort of like a third party takeover of the Republican party and so it's kind of already happened and maybe you can do this every 20 years or 30 years I don't think you can have like this kind of transformation on one party within a two compressed period of time for a lot of reasons third is um the smart parties absorb the less than a political science on forced-sized study political science that wasted kind of my college years and instead of saying see us and you know maybe then I'd be coding stuff and doing physics like Travis but one thing I did learn is smart parties absorb the best ideas of third parties so the oxygen is usually not there because there's a Darwinistic evolution if you get traction on the idea it's really easy to conscript some of those ideas and take away the momentum no third party candidate that's a true like third party has won a senate seat since 1970 and that's actually Bill Buckley's brother and he had to name my name.
The other thing Elon I think is missing and the proponents of what he's doing is people vote not just for ideas they vote for people it's a combination the product is what do you what do you believe and who are you and you can't divorce the two Trump is a person and that generates a lot of enthusiasm and it's one of the reasons why he has challenges in midterms because he's not on the ballot he's ideas maybe on the ballot but he is not specifically on the ballot so unless because Elon can't be the figurehead of the party he literally can't constitutionally there you need a face that's a person Obama a Clinton like there's reasons why people resonating with that out that personality specific ideas just are not going to galvanize the American people.
Okay so the counter to that and what people believe he's going to try to do is win a couple of seats in the house Travis when maybe one or two senate seats if you were to do that those things are pretty affordable to back a couple of million dollars for a house race senate maybe 25 million if Elon puts I don't know 250 million to work every two years which he may put 280 million to work on the last one he could kind of create the Joe Manchin moment and he could build a caucus a platform Grover Norquist kind of pledge along these lines so what do you think of that if he's not going to create a viable third party presidential candidate could he Travis pick off a couple of senate seats pick off a couple of congressional seats okay so first I have this axiom that I'm making up right now okay okay it's called you on is almost always right okay right and I was right about everything seriously let's just be real and like honestly the things he's upset about and that he's riled up about especially when you look at the deficit like man I am right on board that train part one part two we've never had somebody with this kind of capital that can be a quote unquote party boss outside of the system right and there's a lot of people that agree with the types of things he's saying and he knows how to draw you know he he on his own right kind of has a populist vibe like he does his thing and he's turned the x into what it is and he's he's a big part of x and so I think it's the I think it's great and honestly there's there's the moves you can make on senate and house and just having a few folks and then being you being levers then to get the things you want done.
That's part one and then part two of that is the threat of that happening can make good things happen separately even if it doesn't go all the way I just love it. I'm on the train. I'm in love with this role for Elon more than picking a party because he's picking a very specific platform that I think resonates with folks which is just balanced the budget don't put us in so much debt and let's have some sustainable energy you know job done great job. Yeah the problem with that is like he's actually wrong about the reason why we have a deficit or a debt because not because we're undertaxed it's we're massively overspending if we just I think he believes we're overspending they should have been supporting the last you know beautiful bill because if you just held federal spending to 2019 levels to 2019's not like you know decades ago literally with our current tax revenues we would be in a surplus 500 billion yeah so they're all we need to do is cut spending now I admit that that happened with the big beautiful bill so this is where details do matter I think there is a willingness in a you know discipline problem on both parties and I think maybe he can help fix that.
The second thing is that we have these arcane rules particularly in a senate that you need 60 votes in many ways to cut things except through very hockey methods and that's a reality so the best thing truthfully it can do is help get a Republican party to 60 votes and then in then in theory he could be absolutely furious if you didn't cut back to 2019 levels but it's very tricky or you can just overrule like this the filibuster is an artifact of history and at some point some majority leaders just going to say we're done with the filibuster and just steamroll through all the cuts at 50 or 51 votes which you can do there's no constitutional right to a filibuster it is an artifact of centuries of American history and at some point it's going to go away so maybe the time is now maybe we should just fix everything now I think you're exactly right I think that the filibuster it's just a matter of time I think it's on borrow time and I think in a world where it is on borrow time Jason I think your path is probably the one that gives the American party if it does come into existence the most leverage which is if you control three to five independent candidates you gain substantial leverage.
I just want to take a step back and just note something I don't know if you guys know this but the only reason we're even having this conversation or this is even possible is because in 2023 the FEC federal elections commission they actually released guidance and they changed a bunch of rules and the big change that they made then was it allowed super PACs to do a lot more than just run ads up until that point all you could do if you were a super PAC is just basically run advertising television and radio I guess online as well but what they were allowed to do starting in 23 was they were allowed to fund ground operations they were allowed to do things like door knocking phone banking you know get out the vote so in other words what happened was a super PAC became more like a full campaign and Trump showed the blueprint of using a super PAC specifically his to win the presidential election.
So he was able to fund this massive ground game he built infrastructure across the swing states he was obviously incredibly effective and now that playbook can actually be used by other folks and so to the extent that Elon decides to use those changed FEC rules Jason I think what you said is the only path but I just I thought I just wanted to double click on Keith's point because it's so important. I do think the filibuster is going to go away and it is because the arcaneness of these rules having to do a reconciliation bill then you know needing a super majority veto proof super majority and at the other case it just means that nothing gets done and I think somebody will eventually get impatient and just steamroll this thing.
We've never had so many people say they feel politically homeless as we did the last two cycles and that includes many people on this podcast people in our friend circle and I think just the idea that Elon could create a platform that people could opt into and support just the existence of that would make the other two parties get their act together by the way the other thing they need is a little bit of a stick there and a carrot yeah hey if you don't control spending there's this third option and if Travis and I are in it and Keith I know you'll never leave the Republican Party but you're you know you're probably set where you're where you want to be right now but I can tell you Jason our top 10 20 friend list out of those 50% will join you once party.
Well the other the other thing Jason that the Keith said which I think is is really important is if he were to run people I think they have to transcend politics and policy and I think they need to be straight up bosses people that have enormous name recognition so that effectively what you're voting is a name and not an agenda equivalent to I think what happened to Schwarzenegger when he ran he ran on an enormous amount of name recognition in the great Davis recall he didn't run on the platform which is JD Vans JD Vans had this great book capture people's imagination he's an incredible speaker he pisses off a third or two there to the country depending on where you are in the country but you can't ignore him.
I think Elon can find 10 JD Vans type characters and back them fairly easily he is a magnet for talent people will line up I have been contacted by high profile people I was actually thinking of running can you put me in touch with Elon I was thinking more like actors and sports stars meaning where they just come with their own inbuilt distribute like I think you almost have to to rank x followers and Instagram followers and do a join and say okay these it do you know what I mean like I think it's like totally different access it's painful like let's not get more celebrities as politicians like let's get like people who've led large large efforts large initiatives complex things you know ideally but they still have to communicate.
Right he if they have to be able to get on a podcast that's the new platform if they can't spend two hours three hours chopping it up on a podcast of course we're sure we're you know that's Kamala's the reason she couldn't even contend was because she couldn't hang for two hours in an intellectual discussion you can hang you're out yeah it's pretty cool arena that's interesting to see if he can tune his algorithm for talent which is epic to tune for politics because it's a slightly different audience but if you can tune the algorithm and quality that might work I think you can win a few house races I think that's doable I don't think you can win a center race.
Well there it is Elon Keith doesn't think you can win a center race but he thinks you win a couple congressional ones thanks for giving him the motivation Keith I appreciate I'm sure he's gonna win too people on the Republican party right now are going oh no don't poke the tiger listen that's so Trump got into politics so I don't want to be Obama here just Obama Elon right yeah congratulations all right listen SCOTUS made a big decision here this is a really important decision they've sided with Trump for plans for federal workforce rifts reductions in workforce for those of you don't know as you know Elon Trump they wanted to we are downsized the three million people who are federal employees this is just federal employees we're talking about we're not talking about military and we're not talking about state and city that's tens of millions of additional people.
If you remember Trump issued this executive order back in February we got in office implementing the president's doge work for us optimization initiative and he asked all the federal agencies hey just prepare a riff for their departments consistent with applicable laws was part of this eo okay in April the American Federation of Government Employees a f g e sued the Trump administration saying the president must consult congress on launch gale workforce changes this is a key debate because the congress as you know has power of the purse they set up the money but the president the executive branch they have to execute on that and that's what the key is here.
So the accused Trump of violating the separation of powers under the constitution act a f g e has 820,000 members in may a San Francisco-based federal judge sided with the unions blocking the executive order the judge who was appointed by Clinton set any reduction in the federal workforce must be authorized by congress this is a key issue and the white house submitted an emergency appeal yada yada eight of nine supreme court justices sided with the white house in overturning this block and so the reasoning it's very likely the white house will win the argument of the executive order they have the right to prepare a riff the question is can they actually execute on that riff and who has that power chama does the power reside with the president to make large gale or you know riffs or do they have to consult congress first your thoughts on this issue.
It's an incredibly important ruling incredibly right I think president trump should have absolute leeway to decide how the people that report to him act and do their job if you take us that back Jason there are more than two thousand federal agencies employees plus contractors I think number almost three million people if you put three million people into two thousand agencies and then you give them very poor and outdated technology which unfortunately most of the government operates on what are you going to get you're going to get incredibly slow processes you're going to get a lot of checking and double checking and you're going to ultimately just get a lot of regulations because they're trying to do what they think is the right job.
So since 1993 what have we seen regulations have gotten out of control it's like a hundred thousand new rules per some number of months like it's just crazy so eventually we all succumb to an infinite number of rules that we all end up violating and not even know it so if the CEO of the united states president trump isn't allowed to fire people then all of that stuff just compounds so I think that this is a really important thing that just happened it allows us to now level set how big should the government be but more importantly the number of people in the government are also the ones that then direct downstream spend that make net new rules and if you can slow the growth of that down you're actually doing a lot in many ways.
I wish you on had come in and created doge now like could you imagine if doge was created the day after this supreme court ruling it would have been a totally different outcome I think because with that supreme court ruling in hand these guys probably would have been like a hot knife through butter Travis so I think it's a big deal except that ruling doesn't happen without doge that doge caused that ruling to occur true well the eo did you could have passed right but you're not always all doge style though you know what I'm saying if there was in firing people yeah they probably wouldn't felt the need to your point Travis to actually file this but Travis if you were living in the age of a i efficiency right now operations of companies is changing dramatically can you imagine telling somebody you you can be CEO but you can't change personnel that's the job you get to be CEO but you just can't change the players on the team.
You can buy the nicks but you can't change the coach you know you can grow a player you just can shrink it yeah it's like running a unionized company which actually does exist our large. nice companies where you can't do any of these things right do they still exist or they all gone I think they go quickly yeah probably i think this just gets back to what what is actually congress authorizing when a bill occurs and there's certain things that are specific and certain things that aren't and i don't i'm not sure that in a lot of these bills it's not very specific about exactly how many people must be hired and so if it's i'm just doing the common man sort of approach to this which is like if if the law says you have to hire x number of people then that is what it is if the law says you he hears some money to spend here the ways in which to spend it but it's not specific about how many people you hire then that's different yeah it should be outcome base hey here's the goal here's the the key objectives right for the province it travels is totally right they are there's a variety of different laws some with the incredible specificities some with very broad managed the constitution clearly says that all executive power resides in the president of the United States period there's no exceptions there however congress does appropriate money and post watergate many people think congress has the power to force the president to spend the money and you can debate that you can debate it on a per statute basis and that will be more nuanced and that's going to get litigated whether the president can refuse to spend money that congress explicitly instructed him to spend sometimes called empowerment that's a very interesting intellectual debate.
This one's a little bit easier it'll get more complicated again like this eo is only approved to allow for the planning i think the vote might be closer i think there's still a majority on the screen court for the actual implementation but it may not be eight one when there's a specific plan that constantly navigates way through the courts again yeah it's super fascinating yeah i wonder if they're going to get to the point where they're going to say in every bill you need to hire this number of people to hit this goal i don't know if they can like that's where it gets borderline unconstitutional like where you actually prescribe the president in the exercise if his constitutional duties has to hire certain number of people that feels pretty precarious well i i i'm not sure keep that's just like they prescribe a whole bunch of other things right no but you must you must appropriate money for to this specific institution to do the specific work i mean it's not an executive function like if you said like the secretary of state has to have that's number of employees doing something the secretary of state is your personal representative to conduct foreign affairs on behalf of the president in the United States it gets a little bit more messy as you translate it to people um that the president should i mean yes congress does set you know which people are subject to consent a confirmation what their salaries and compensation bans are so it's it's never going to be fully binary where the president can do whatever he wants and it's never going to i don't think it'll be constitutional congress commandeate and put all kinds of handcuffs on the president.
Well then you you also have performance that comes in here what if you look at the department of education say squarice have gone down we've spent this money we're not getting the result therefore these people are incompetent therefore i'm firing them for cause and i'm going to hire new people how are you going to stop the executive from doing that there's been a bunch of litigation you know in parallel to this litigation about the president's ability to fire people and for the most part the Supreme Court's basically with maybe the exception of the federal reserve chair said that the president can fire pretty much anybody who wants i mean that's the way to go is like i mean i hate to be cut out about the financial if the results aren't there i think if they're presidential yeah if they're a presidential appointee the president should be able to fire you out will just like if you were a VP at one of our companies the CEO should be able to fire you at will but what about key that's the whole department sucks hey you guys were responsible for early education you had to put together a plan the plan failed everybody's fired we're starting over like you should be allowed to do that.
How many have the fishing government some of these departments were created by congressional statute like the department of education in 1979 and you're right every single educational stat has got worse in the United States since the department was created but there is a law on the books that says there shall be a department of education so you may have to repeal that all right.
listen rat an hour and a half gentlemen do you want to do the phyco story or should we just wrap chima and we got plenty of show here it's a great episode anything i sure we have much to say on the phyco story i thought these other topics were really good though we did great today this is a great panel i'm so excited you guys are here let me just ask you guys any off duty stuff that you can share with us with the audience any recommendations restaurants hotels trips movies you watch book charade.
Keith i know that you are an active guy what what's on your agenda this summer anything interesting you can share with the audience that you're consuming conspicuous or otherwise well i don't want to share any good restaurants or hotels because you're keeping you're keeping come on man give us your favorite baby is that you got a babysitter yes can i get your nanny's now.
there are there are things that are what do you call no marginal cost consumption like Netflix so for example um you know this documentary on some of it lot and it's phenomenal like i don't know if you've seen it i have to and you know i'm a student of this stuff and i thought you know i knew the whole story and etc watch episode one just started episode one and it just blew me away with new information new footage just absolutely incredible stuff so highly highly recommend it.
what uh what was the big takeaway for you so far i don't know there's any like specific takeaway but just like so many parts of the story are misunderstood and not really understood and how various conflances of somewhat random things lead to a very catastrophic result but it's it's as dramatic as the best movie but it's a full documentary and you will learn things and absorb things i just i've had friends while i've been recommending it to friends and for a story you think you know it's incredible incredibly revealing.
okay Travis anything you got on your plate there that you're enjoying the restaurant a dish i mean look you know i mean jacene i go to austin a lot yes like basically from march till october i do about 15 weekends in austin i have a late house jacens hung out a couple times so i i love water skiing that's my whole thing that's my life that's just i just love it it's just my thing since i've been very sad very sad it's lake it's i called lake life so that's a thing.
and then i recently this little bit of like a side quest i recently purchased the preeminent backammon engine xg xg that's right which uh acronym is it's extreme gammon and so the preeminent engine so all the pros rate themselves based on this it was done it was built by this amazing entrepreneur this guy's avia who is just a full on sort of ultra ultra let me just what's the word i'm looking for it's not a savant like a savant essentially but hasn't worked on it for many years so i'm getting back into it and i love it.
and making it like taking modern machine learning sort of deep learning techniques and like big compute and saying can we push the game of backammon forward so super exciting and ultra training apps to get people up to speed quickly i played in my first backam internment and cached so that was pretty cool no wait yeah okay yeah all the respect you know thunder uber your high profile you go to this backam it's just like held at the motel eight it's amazing.
it's amazing it's amazing it's amazing it's that they was at that is like a month ago or so there's like a big tournament and it was uh so that the united states back in the federation had this big tournament i guess it was uh at the los angeles lax at the lax hilton and it was in yes it was in the basement of the hilton great and it was like next to the dungeons and dragons convention it it had those kinds of legit vibes.
太神奇了,太神奇了,太神奇了!大约一个月前左右,有一个非常大型的比赛。美国在联邦时期组织了这个大型比赛,我猜是在洛杉矶的LAX希尔顿酒店举办的。是的,比赛就在希尔顿的地下室,就在龙与地下城(Dungeons and Dragons)大会旁边,整个氛围相当酷炫。
i love it and like people so so i went in super low pro just did my thing but eventually was recognized but i was not recognized as the founder of uber i was recognized as the boner of xg ooh the owner of xg and then there was like a full on melee that basically occurred the like all the owner xg travis is here trimoth i feel like we've got a window here to do the all-in backam in high-end tournament we got to lock this down now we got to lock down the all-in backam and set i get the co-branding rights on this.
okay absolutely xg well no the all-in xg you know like i said love a great backam instead if we could make like a ten thousand dollar one trimoth we could kill turtles or white rhinos all the animals that you know um and freeberg's trying to protect we could murder them and then make that would be so great yes like maybe the white. could be you know rhinos and then they could take something else elephant skin something you know just really tragic and then eat the meat and make the the backam set for you i love backam and i'm honestly like if i wasn't attempting to be like expert poker player that is the game i mean if you're talking about a pendora's box where once you open it oh my god you can go to the rabbit shemao let's go let's do that again and let's back in as a beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful game i love the vibes of sitting with travis and i sat i got some cigars out you know we pour a little of the all-in tequila tequila dot owing dot com uh we get that going a couple of uh the all-in cigars and then we have the all-in it's a wonderful hang.
yeah Keith would you consider giving us some of your money playing back again we got it we got to get some of that i think much more money on the table because you don't play poker with us i don't like poker but backam and yeah that sounds great you know i'll bring better tequila i'll bring better tequila well like we're gonna offer you do a little taste off yeah you show you've insulted now you on with the senate seats in fact with his uh might to get as much better trust me.
okay who is left in the paypal mafia you'd like to insult before the episode is over for Peter how do you think about Peter? reek of jarn elons party he's collecting a bunch of misfits so he might as well take re too all right listen listen to been another amazing episode of the number one podcast in the world the all-in podcast for your sultan of science who couldn't make it today he's at the big conference so we don't mention and uh david sacks who is out uh making america safe in a i and crypto jimuth pao hapatia world's great to be a moderator pravis Keith thank you for coming thanks for appreciating you guys were great today what a see y'all next time bye bye.
oh we should all just get a room and just have one big hug your cheek is there all this it's like this like sexual tension that we just need to release that out what your bb what your bb your bb what we need to get merges aren't that you i'm doing.