All right, everybody. Welcome to the all-in podcast. Lots to talk about, but right off the bat, congratulations to David Friedberg, who is the chairperson of the all-in-summit 2023 on the big announcement. We're going to be having the all-in-summit September 10th to 12th at Royce Hall at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. Your tickets are now on sale and selling out quick.
I think Friedberg, maybe you can just give people a little overview of why you selected the location and what you hope to accomplish in terms of the programming, which has brought strokes, and then we'll get right into the show. I think the general headline is today and tomorrow where we were, we headed, I think exploring the state of the world and interesting things that were uniquely, or that were all kind of excited about in the future. And we want to have great conversations with candid people that can give us kind of, you know, they're very honest on the ground, points of view on everything from technology and markets, macro, science, society, and culture.
So we're going to talk across all those different topic areas. And similar to what we did last year, the four of us on stage, having conversations with these folks. So I'm pretty excited. I think L.A. is a great location. There's obviously an availability for people to stay. There's great venues for us to do the evening events. And it's certainly super accessible for folks from all over the world. And we decided this year to have three tiers of tickets. We'll have the VIP tickets. We'll have scholarships for people who fill out a form so we can, you know, have really great diversity and representation at the event and up in comers, maybe who couldn't afford the VIP ticket. But in between, you decided to have a standard ticket as well. That's just $1500.
And there'll be a VIP lounge this year for the VIP tickets and an early access to the theater and a couple of special dinner parties. I'm going to have wine budget so that I can take care of the VIPs properly. You know, talking about that one later. I was saying, what is my wine budget? Let me treat the VIPs like the VIPs that they are. What would you need per night per dinner per person? Depends on how many people per person. We'll just say per person per night. Is it like $200 per person per person per night? Because a person drinks a half a bottle of wine, two or three glasses. Yeah, like, you know, three to 500, maybe a thousand. What is the truffle budget for the conference? The truffle budget. No, it's true. We can only have it. Why truffle? No, it's September. Yeah, it's been quite white and black truffle season. It's a dead zone.
You don't want to be in that. You got to either wait till the winter or you got to enjoy the early summer. We have to have a conference in early November. At that point, we can focus the entire VIP budget if it were according to me would be spent on white truffles and white bread.
All right, everybody. Let's get started. Jamar Pao Hapatia is with us as well. The dictator himself and David Sacks, the rainman. Yeah, Google had their I.O. event. They announced Palm 2. Google's language model is going to power 25 products, including Bard, which is got coding capabilities now. I guess to go up against GitHub's co-pilot, Palm 2 will have improved multilinguality across a hundred languages.
Well, I have multi what? We'll support a hundred languages. It's going to be better at mathematics and reasoning. They also announced duet AI, which is basically Google suite of generative AI tools for dock sheets drive all that kind of stuff. Kind of like a copy of Microsoft's co-pilot tools that Sacks has talked about a whole bunch. The guide on the side, if you will, they tease the future where AI can summarize docs, which box AI Aaron Levy is doing. They also previewed proactive prompts in the sidebar of Google docs. And I talked about that a whole bunch on the sweet startups. They're going to also now add images and replies.
我有什么?我们将支持100种语言,它将更擅长数学和推理。他们还宣布了Duet AI,这基本上是Google生成性AI工具套件,用于文档表格、驱动器等等。有点像Sacks谈论过的微软联合飞行员工具的副本。如果你想的话,他们暗示了AI可以总结文档的未来,这是Box AI Aaron Levy正在做的。他们还在Google文档的侧边栏预览了主动提示。我在甜美的创业公司上也谈到过这个话题。他们还将添加图片和回复。
Have you guys used Bart in the last 24 hours? I used it last week, not in the last 24 hours. I think you guys should use it. We should talk about it. It's really impressive. It's better than chat GPT at this point from my experience on talk going through a number of things because it's actually connected live to the internet. It's connected live to search. It can pull down real-time data for you. It can do real internet searches for you and just give you the results. It's extremely powerful. I feel like it's the product that Google has been scared to do, which is the product that can truly disrupt search. And they're doing it.
So how do I try it? Do I just go to bar? Google.com. No access needed. No cost. Nothing. Oh my god. This is great. And seriously use it. And it does real-time search. And it's 180 languages. It converts. It generates images for you. It can generate charts, results. It's really powerful. Guys, Google has strong together. I think a lot of features. And you can look Google's market. caps up $150 billion in the last two days. Okay. This is pretty interesting. And so, SACs, a lot of comparisons and results are now. A lot of what we've been talking about with respect to plugins and the tooling built into Auto GPT. Many of the most interesting kind of applications that folks have kind of demonstrated or utilized are really kind of built into this bar product.
Okay. I love bar. Can I just give you guys what I just tried? Can we guess? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Was it something about freeberg's anus? Uranus? No. It wasn't a Uranus joke. Okay. Then tell us. Well, my first question was, why is David freeberg such a sellout? But the answer confused him with an actor. So let's forget that. My second question was, is Jason Calcanus a virtue signaler? And the answer is fantastic. Jason Calcanus is a venture capitalist and entrepreneur who has been accused of virtue signaling. Virtue signaling is the act of publicly expressing opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one's good character or the moral correctness of one's position on a particular issue. There are a number of reasons why people might accuse Jason Calcanus of virtue signal. Okay. For example, he has been showing to make public statements about his support for social justice causes, but he has also been criticized for his lack of concrete action on these issues.
What? Additionally, he has been accused of using his platform to promote himself in his businesses rather than to genuinely advocate for social change. That's ultimately whether or not Jason Calcanus is a virtue signaler is a matter of opinion. There is no clear consensus on this issue and there is evidence to support both sides of the argument. However, it is important to note that virtue signaling can be a harmful practice as it can lead to people becoming desensitized to real social problems and make it more difficult to address them effectively.
Paragraph 1: This is some woke shit. Wait, do you see what I just did? Here's mine.
这是某种醒觉的东西,等等,你看到我刚才做了什么了吗?这是我的。
Paragraph 2: I asked Bard is tomorrow the horrible human. Here's what hard to say. Come on, Pauli Haviti is a complex individual, positive and negative qualities. He is a successful venture capitalist and entrepreneur, but he has also been criticized for his outspoken views at his past actions. Some of Pauli Haviti's policies, qualities include his intelligence, his ambition, his drive to succeed.
Paragraph 3: Blah, blah, blah, blah. He's also been criticized for his arrogance and lack of evidence. The A&S willingness to exploit people for his outgain. This is perfect. It's the same quality. It's balanced. It's true. It is giving you the good and the bad. Oh my god, that's hilarious. This is a very fair answer. Ultimately, I'm a complex individual. I have a chance. The horrible is a matter of opinion. I love it.
Paragraph 4: I asked it, where is the, this is going to really show you the power of this? Where is the All in Summit 2023 being held and how much are tickets? Two questions that are deep on the website. There are two All in Summit. That's incredible.
Paragraph 5: And then it says the All in Summit 2023 will be held September 10th at 11, 23rd, or Royce Fall. Tickets are 1500 for General Mission 7500 for VIP. That's insane.
Paragraph 6: I'm saying, what are the key differences between Bard and ChatGPT just because you've used it? On the modeling side, they're claiming a much larger, more robust model. It's linked to the Internet. It's linked to Live Search, which you can't do with ChatGPT, which is based on a static training data set.
Paragraph 7: Bard can actually engage with dynamic content and a dynamic content generator across the web. Then it's integrated with a number of Google services that basically can take certain live feeds of data like flights and stock prices and so on. It's free. I think you don't need to be charged for over usage. You don't need to sign up and get access. It's just available to anyone. I think this is the game changer everyone is hoping for.
Paragraph 8: I just asked, did Stan Druckemiller buy Nvidia recently? So it wasn't able to find the transcript of his thing, but it did find the 13F and it says yes according to his 13F for the fourth quarter of 22 Stan purchase of $582,915 shares of Nvidia.
Paragraph 9: I just said, what was Google's restructuring expense incurred in Q1 2023? It says according to Google's 2023 Q1 earnings report, the company incurred restructuring expense of 1.6 billion, including the decision to lay off 12,000 employees. They were part of a broader restructuring. It basically parsed through the press release, parsed through the Q1 data. It's really pretty impressive.
Paragraph 10: What do you got? Check this out. David Sacks, what does David Sacks think about Hunter Biden? Everybody on the oil and pod nose, but let's see what Bard knows. He's not publicly commented on Hunter Biden. However, he has been critical of the Biden family business dealings in Ukraine. In 2019, Andrew Sacks said that he was deeply troubled by the Biden's vomiting in Ukraine. That he believed it was a conflict of interest for Hunter Biden to serve on the board of charisma.
Paragraph 11: That's pretty interesting. I don't know. That's clearly inaccurate. I mean, I wasn't talking about it. Yeah. In 2019, think about that. That's what you started into the pod. Yeah. So the question is, where is he getting these quotes? And then why doesn't it give citations? Well, also, wait.
Paragraph 12: Sacks has been critical of the Trump administration's use of Hunter Biden's business dealings as a political weapon. Yeah, that's not true. You've never criticized the Trump administration. Those quotes are wrong. Those quotes are not so wrong.
Paragraph 13: So I just said to it, can you access and think about this data said, and this is where Google has unique advantages. I said, can you access the YouTube transcript data? And it says, yes, Bard integrates YouTube transcript data. I said, do you have access to transcript data from the Ellen podcast channel? It says, yes, I do have access to the transcript data from the Ellen podcast channel.
Paragraph 14: I said, can you access this data? Answer some questions. And now what did Sacks say about Hunter Biden in that show? And so I would guess, so think about the change in answer. So from this to be very inaccurate. Yeah.
Paragraph 15: So David Sacks appeared. He said he believes Hunter Biden is a deeply troubled individual who's made a lot of bad decisions. He also said that he believes Hunter Biden's business dealings in Ukraine were highly unethical and that he believes it's impossible that Joe, this is transcript data from the pod. However, Sacks also said that he does not believe that Hunter Biden's business dealings are a quote-smoking gun that proves that Joe Biden engaged in any wrongdoing. He said that he believes that the evidence against Joe Biden or quote circumstantial is quote circumstantial and that he does not believe that there is enough evidence to impeach him.
Paragraph 1: Sacks his comments about Hunter Biden were met with mixed reaction. Some people. agree. And on and on and on.
萨克斯对亨特·拜登的评论引起了不同的反应。有些人同意,还有更多人这样想,不断地重复着。
Paragraph 2: I think it's very inaccurate to be honest. That's not a good. That's not a good. I mean, it's got my stuff mixed in. It's got some of your stuff mixed in, but it also it's like it's summarizing in a way that neither of us actually said it. Yeah. And they're missing the key points about what I did say.
Paragraph 3: I asked a pretty complicated question here and I think it did a pretty decent job. I said, I would like to fly low premiere on Air France from the West Coast to Europe. Where should I depart? And it got a perfectly LAX SFO and Seattle Tacoma. Oh, yeah. I just asked it to get me the fastest route to Portofino.
Paragraph 4: And it gave me the exact flight I should take from SFO. How much the ticket is and then the train I should take from the shortest, meaning the shortest time. Yeah, because I don't want to do a layover in Germany. It's like flight and Milan take the train and it gave me the full schedule, which by the way, Google flights can't do because you go to Google flights and all it does is give you the flight data.
Paragraph 5: It can integrate a lot of different data set to give you these answers. Did you say fastest route or fastest flight? What did you? Fastest route. Yeah. So I don't want to spend the least amount of time traveling is one of my objective. This is why I was saying I think you guys should play with this tool a bit.
Paragraph 6: It is, I think, head and shoulders above chat GPT. The models supposedly better. Obviously other people will come out with, with kind of, you know, measures of that and estimates of whether that's true.
我认为它比GPT聊天机器人好很多。这个模型据说更好。显然,其他人可能会提出类似的措施和估计真伪。
Paragraph 7: The extensibility, the integration with live data and the integration with Google's very unique data set is what's so powerful that they have access to flight data that they have integrated. YouTube transcript data. It's just super powerful, super impressive.
Paragraph 8: Oh, damn. I'm using this in real time and I do find the interface to be snappier than chat GPT and it, like you said, it doesn't need the browsing plugin in order to scrape more recent data from the internet that it wasn't trained on, but I'm not finding the answers to be more accurate and I'm not finding them to be more detailed.
Paragraph 10: Okay. Well, the recent stuff is important. Well, I mean, clearly chat GPT is going to have to make the browsing plugin much snappier and like much more part of the core functionality rather than something that's like an add-on. Yeah, it can't be an add-on. It's got to be able to incorporate the most recent information.
Paragraph 11: I did ask some questions about the Ukraine war and then it gave me like a highly compressed view and I said, please provide more detail and then it's actually did a pretty good job expanding it and it did it very quickly. Well, if you look at the view drafts thing, that's always been one of its strengths.
Paragraph 12: Is that a little format of three different ways for you? By default, if you go to the top right, so you can just sort of cycle through them, but that's an existing feature.
Paragraph 13: I mean, I definitely want to keep playing with this. Play with it. It's one of the obviously important releases that I thought they were going to catch up real quick and this seems like we got to race on our hands now.
Paragraph 14: But I think the point you're making Freeberg is a good one which is one of these big companies just get their act together. It's very hard to discern whether something is 80% as good or 120% better.
Paragraph 15: There's this fuzzy gray area where a lot of people can find utility in a lot of different products and then the one with the better distribution wins. And so if they take Bard and they have the confidence that it just integrated into Gmail or integrated into these other points where they already have hundreds of millions of users, that's like a really tough distribution barrier to overcome.
Paragraph 16: That's the next step that I think if Google really wants to win here, they have to force distribution of these tools in line to where people are. And if they do that, you're not going to know the difference between 80 and 100%. Someone has sophisticated its sacks may be able to, but the average person will just be like, this is good enough. They've got distribution.
Paragraph 17: I mean, like with all products, the kind of key advantage and distribution, that's the platform advantage. Can I show you an answer? I think it's like super hallucinating on. So I asked it, what is David Sacks written about SAS?
Paragraph 18: And then it says, my venture capital entrepreneurs are essentially about SAS. He's a founder, yeah, okay, that's true. But then it says he's also the co founder of WeWork. Not true. Didn't know that. Then it says, Sacks, congrats, says, Sacks has written a number of articles about SAS, including.
Paragraph 1: And then all five of those articles were not written by me. It's basically like hallucinating really strongly. So significant. hallucination here.
这五篇文章都不是我写的。就像是我非常强烈地幻觉了一样。幻觉非常明显。
Paragraph 2: Oh, you know what? Bart is at the after party for Google IO right now and it's had too much to drink. So it's just straight up drunk.
哦,你知道吗?巴特现在在 Google IO 的派对上,已经喝了太多酒了。所以他现在直接喝醉了。
Paragraph 3: This is why Google didn't want to release this right? Fredberg, like they don't want the Google brand associated with these hallucinations, whereas that's right.
Paragraph 4: Nobody cares what open aives brand. This was a big part of the innovator, it's the lemma that Google faced, which was number one, it could be disruptive to the core business. Number two, it exposes them to regulatory scrutiny. And number three, is if they make mistakes, they're going to get more scrutinized and some, you know, ranking-dinky startup where everyone's so forgiving.
Paragraph 5: But it's great to see, look, I mean, as a shareholder, it's great to see them take this risk. It's great to see them put this out there. They've now released robust coding capabilities. They've integrated scientific research papers. Obviously, they're going to continue to improve model performance, improve integration with these data feeds. And they have a very large head count. I think north of 10,000 people working 10,000 smart people.
Paragraph 6: So if you can organize those people and they've got this significantly advantage in infrastructure, they have a real shot at being a platform player here. The question later is going to be how much is this going to disrupt core search revenue? You know, what categories of search revenue are going to get disrupted? And, you know, are they going to make that up in other ways? And I think time will tell there.
Paragraph 7: But I think this is the progress that shareholders and investors were looking to see with respect to the product competition in AI. And certainly, some shareholder still want to see continued improvements on the cost structure of the business. But that's a separate topic.
Paragraph 8: But this was exactly I think really hit the bulls eye on what people were looking for. I don't see how it's a bulls eye. So I just asked it, can you give me a complete list of all the articles on SAS that's actually been lost for years? So now at least it's over the target. Those five articles and mentions are correct. So chat GPT do that? Well, no, because the browsing plug-in.
Paragraph 9: But I'm just saying like they got a lot of work to do here on quality. Yeah, they all do. But it is snappy. And I finally got to these five articles being correct.
Paragraph 10: AI regulation. We talked about it five weeks ago on the show. I think well, there's been some movement there. Vice President Harris met with CEOs of alphabet, Microsoft, OpenAI, Sinat Sundar, Satya, and Sam discussed implementing AI safeguards.
Paragraph 11: And then on Tuesday, Sam Altman was interviewed by Patrick Coulson, the CEO of Stripe. And he endorsed the idea of IAEA for AI. That's the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Paragraph 12: So is that hyperbolic? Delusions of grandeur or right on target? Well, the interesting thing about the IAEA is that what I learned recently from the CEO of Planet Labs, Will Marshall is that the predecessor organization to the IAEA is really this organization called Pugwash.
那么这是言过其实吗?是自大的妄想还是实现了目标?有趣的是,我最近从Planet Labs的CEO Will Marshall那里得知,IAEA的前身组织实际上是一个名为“Pugwash”的组织。
Paragraph 13: And what that was, Einstein and Bertrand Russell in the 50s, Post-Herozema and Nagasaki bringing together academics to basically create a way to think about nuclear disarmament going forward just because they all saw the damage. And there was a large framework that set up the current denuclearization treaties. And then the IAEA was set up after that.
Paragraph 14: And so I think that there's a thread here which is basically what he's saying is there's something around nuclear disarmament that is very similar to AI, both in terms of its potential, but obviously in terms of its risks.
Paragraph 15: And so there's like a whole monitoring framework. There's a no-your-customer kind of framework. These are not unfettered things that can just live openly in the wild. So I think it's interesting to acknowledge that Sam who's deep in the bowels of one of the most important companies sees both its potential, but it's danger enough to say that this is how we should think about it like nuclear weapons.
Paragraph 16: I think is a very important thing to acknowledge. And the White House pledge to release draft guidelines for AI safeguards that the National Science Foundation plans to spend $840 million on at AI-focused research centers. FTC Chair Lena Khan wrote a guest essay in New York Times calling for AI regulation due to large share risk, including monopoly, solidation, fraud, extortion, and bias.
Paragraph 17: And he thought it's their sex about adding regulation to the mix right now. Are we jumping the gun here and going to smother this thing before it even gets correct answers? Serious risk. And the White House also announced that Kamala Harris would be the AI's R for this issue, which I don't think inspires anyone with confidence that they're going to get this right.
Paragraph 1: Look, my concern here is I think we should have conversations about the risks of AI. We should be thinking about that. I think people in the industry need to be thinking about what guardrails can we put on it.
Paragraph 2: I think Elon's raised, I think long-term concerns about whether this could lead to AGI, you basically create a superintelligence that you can't control. I think people in the industry haven't really figured out how to address that.
Paragraph 3: That problem is called alignment. And everyone's trying to figure out how do you even make alignment work? Is that theoretically possible?
那个问题被称为“对齐”。每个人都在试图弄清楚如何使对齐有效?那理论上是否可能?
Paragraph 4: So there are real and valid concerns, Jake, how you raise the issue of deep fakes. I think providence of data is going to be a real issue. People committing fraud or other kinds of criminal acts using it.
Paragraph 5: So there are real concerns, but the problem is that we have no idea how to regulate this yet. And the fact that Kamala Harris is the AI's R now, again, just points the fact that nobody has a good idea of what this is supposed to be or who the experts supposed to be.
Paragraph 6: And this idea of creating an atomic energy commission, look, I can see why Sam and other industry leaders might want that because they're going to quickly develop relationships. The biggest AI companies, which now includes OpenAI, which has the backing of Microsoft and Google, and the biggest of the big tech companies, they have all the lobbyists in Washington, they have all the political connections.
Paragraph 7: They're the ones who are huge donors, and they have political relationships, and they're going to help construct the regulations. And it's going to turn into another example of industry capture, just like Jorge Jr. told us about on the show last week when he talked about how the big weapons companies influence our foreign policy, the way that the big pharma companies influence the FDA and so on.
Paragraph 8: We're going to end up in a situation in which the big tech companies have inordered influence over this new regulatory agency. And since it's not clear what the regulatory agency is even supposed to be doing yet, they're going to end up promulgating a bunch of regulations that create a barrier to entry for the little guy. Getting a creative mode with regulation.
Paragraph 9: Yeah. For the big guys, and they'll slow down the whole process of innovation in the space, which some people might like, but I think is really the best hope that America has to get out of its horrible fiscal situation, all this debt.
Paragraph 10: We need a massive productivity boost to get out of the massive debt bubble that we're in. So what I'd hate to see is that, yeah, we basically kills this thing in the cradle.
Paragraph 11: Interesting. Yes, we are in a deep pit here, and Stanley Druckermiller gave speech at USC. At the 37th annual meeting of the USC Marshall Center for Investment Studies, and he expressed concern about the financial crisis that could occur in the 2025 to 2035 period, due to the baby boomers charting 65 in the impact on entitlements.
Paragraph 12: He predicted that in 25 years, spending on seniors will grow to 60% of all taxes. Here's a look at the chart. You can see today, there, as the vertical line, about 5% of our GDP goes to Social Security today, and about another 5.5 goes to Medicare Medicaid. It's predicting here that those combined will go from what looks like 12% today, up to 24% of GDP, your reaction.
Paragraph 13: Freeberg? My reaction is another very important voice stating the obvious. Like the arithmetic, just doesn't work. When we had RFK on last week, I prodded him on his stance and point of view, on the federal deficit, the fiscal deficit, this government runs, and the entitlement programs that are only going to swell.
Paragraph 14: And the debt burden, which has an interest payment obligation on it, that the interest payments are swelling. And when you do the arithmetic on all this, it's going to balloon the cost to service the debt. And without some degree of cutting across the board, spending and entitlement programs, discretionary spending and entitlement programs, you can't make the interest payments, which inevitably leads to some form of default.
Paragraph 15: That's just the math and the way this all works out. And I think what he's done is put a pen to paper and show him that, call it roughly 2025 to 2035, you start to run into that fiscal scenario, where you can no longer generate enough income from the US economy to fund both the interest payment obligations on the federal debt, as well as these entitlement programs, and something's got to give.
Paragraph 16: Either you're going to have to default on the debt, or you're going to have to cut the entitlement programs. And the point he's making is that the longer you wait to cut the entitlement programs, the worse it's going to get, because you're accruing so much debt in the interim. And as we know, that becomes very politically unpopular.
Paragraph 1: And what's so scary to me, and I've kind of shared this, and obviously, Chimata's a different point of view, but it feels to me like, this is that don't look up movie moment. where we have this like, you know, looming disaster, we don't have any fuel in the car. And all that everyone's talking about is where are we going to drive the car? And every political conversation, every candidate gets on stage, gets on a podcast, gets on a TV show, and they talk about stuff that is simply not feasible.
Paragraph 2: And the direction setting with respect to social policy, wars, geopolitics, you know, how are we going to take care of our middle class? None of that stuff is possible to actually execute against without recognizing and acknowledging that we don't have gas in the car. And we have to figure out how to gas up the car.
Paragraph 3: And so it's great to see Druckett Miller being vocal, putting very simple clear slides together. It's like what I've mentioned in the past, I would love to see a Clinton-esque Bill Clinton-esque slide deck where he would come up with a poster and show everyone. Here's the economy, folks. And I think Druckett Miller did a great job, and I encourage everyone to go watch that. There's an audio transcript of the talk as well as the slides are publicly available on the internet.
Paragraph 4: We'll put the links in the show notes here today. I just think it's, whether or not you agree with the outlook, I think it's worth everyone watching and realizing how serious of an issue this is and why this has to become the number one topic of conversation going to this next presidential election cycle.
Paragraph 5: He's also just close. He short the dollar long gold euro oil and AUD, which I guess is the Australian dollar. And he's also long Nvidia and Microsoft believes Nvidia's got him an upway on the chip market.
Paragraph 6: I got a question for Tramoth and then to Sacks. So Tramoth, what's your just reaction to this? Do you think he's Dr. Dooming it and we can have all this debt? And then the question then becomes, is there any way out of this? We had a Trump town hall. I hate to bring it up and go back into the sort of Trump commentary on all this, but he's the lead candidate, Sacks.
Paragraph 7: And he said he thinks we can get out of debt. We just got a drill, a bunch of oil, drill belt, baby drill, and we'll get out of this problem. We'll be able to rebound some budget. So Tramoth and then Sacks.
Paragraph 8: I want to be clear. I don't think it's great that we have these enormous debts and entitlement obligations. But I also don't think that there's some magical number where the economy breaks. And the reason is because we're central to not just our economy, but everybody else's economy.
Paragraph 9: We are the reserve currency of the world that's not changing anytime soon. It's not even close. And we are for better or worse. And I think Sacks and I don't like it, but we are the world's policeman. We are a bunch of things. We are the world's center of innovation. We are the world's center of these great leaps forward in humanity.
Paragraph 10: When we talk about all of these different things, these aren't coming from random countries. They're coming from the United States. We can debate which company, but we're never debating the country. So I think that there's a legacy of value creation and innovation that we've always been at the forefront of. At least since America was founded. So 1776 to now.
Paragraph 11: I think the reality is that debt to GDP will continue to increase. I don't think a single politician can practically get elected by offering to cut entitlement spending to people that have spent their entire lives paying into a system. So as a practical matter, this thing will go up.
Paragraph 12: And I don't think the economy will stop. I think that economics are a relative problem where you have to weigh countries against each other. And what that means is the economic vibrancy, the productivity, the intellect, all of those things where we have to compete with El Salvador, we have to compete with Nigeria, we have to compete with India, we have to compete with Australia.
Paragraph 13: And in that context, there is very little historical artifact that says that there's a breaking point. So I just think that if you observe the moment, it's not that what Freeberg is saying is bad. I'm not exactly sure that it's particularly actionable. And I think the disproportionate amount of action is actually the opposite, which is to re-inflate the money supply, to re-inflate assets, to create artificial prosperity and smear it to many, many, many people.
Paragraph 14: And I think that you have to think about how do you want to activate your view? I can believe whatever I want, but at the end of the day, I don't want to act in a way that's against my economic best interest, quite honestly. So I believe that winning is measured in dollars and cents on these things.
Paragraph 1: And from that perspective, I don't particularly like it. I think I'm emotionally more aligned to Freeberg, but the practical reality is, I'm on the opposite side, which says the governments will keep spending.
Paragraph 2: Inflation will be here. Assets will keep inflating. The M2 money supply will keep going up. And on general, I'm longed the United States in short every other country.
通货膨胀即将到来,资产将继续增值,M2货币供应量将继续增加。总的来说,我看好美国,而看淡其他国家。
Paragraph 3: Tomac, doesn't that ultimately lead to just inflation? It initially starts at the inflation of assets and asset prices, but it ultimately leads to the inflation of goods and services, which can cripple the economy because then the middle class can't afford things.
Paragraph 4: And you have economic slowdown. I mean, that's the historical record of having these kind of inflationary moments. Yeah, I mean, inflation comes and goes, but the position of the American US dollar hasn't changed.
Paragraph 5: Again, you have to remember like a lot of these foreign governments, 187 or whatever the number is, countries outside the United States, rely on the US dollar. They don't want to own their own currency. Right?
Paragraph 6: And so, yeah, you're right. Dollars do get inflated, but that increased purchasing power also actually drives the balance of power back to the United States because all of these other folks all of a sudden find the ability to import a little bit cheaper.
Paragraph 7: Their economies get slightly better, but the US dollar actually still does well. So there's a complex set of interactions that are all relative.
他们的经济略有改善,但美元实际上仍然表现良好。因此存在一系列复杂的相互作用。
Paragraph 8: So I think it's very hard to point to the US middle class and say, oh, this is why the US breaks. I just don't see very many good examples in a modern globalist era.
Paragraph 9: And there are examples. And I think Ray Dallio has pointed these out when you look all the way in the back, but to use the UK right in the 15 and 1600s of the East India trading company when we did not have a global economy or a global reserve currency, I don't think it's very useful.
这里有一些例子。我认为 Ray Dallio 已经在后面指出过了。但是,将英国在 15 和 16 世纪东印度贸易公司作为例子,这在我们没有全球经济或全球储备货币的情况下,我认为并不是很有用。
Paragraph 10: There's things you can learn, you know, taxation. I think we can learn about why taxation does kill innovation. You said that before I agree with that. But I don't think there's much value in saying because it happened in these moments, it's going to happen exactly the same way here.
Paragraph 11: And I think what people don't understand is we are in a unitary singular mono economy that is anchored by the US dollar.
第11段:我认为人们不理解的是我们处于一个以美元为锚的单一经济体中。
Paragraph 12: Saxony, that's. Saxony, agree. I tend to be on the freeberg drucumular side of this thing.
第12段: 指的是萨克森。萨克森同意。我倾向于站在自由贝格德鲁库拉姆的一边。
Paragraph 13: Drucumular had a great quote in this interview he just gave. I don't know. Freeberg, did you mention this last week that he said that that he compared the debt ceiling and fiscal spending to worrying about whether a 30-foot wave will damage the pier when you know there's a 200-foot tsunami just 10 miles out.
Paragraph 14: Yeah, I saw that quote. So what he's saying is like our short term situation is bad. The long term situation, which isn't even that long term, like 10 years out, is even worse.
Paragraph 15: And I think there's a growing feeling that our political system is just not up to the challenge of dealing with these problems. It just seems fundamentally unseurious. We never discuss it. The media doesn't really present us with accurate information and it has an agenda.
Paragraph 16: You guys want to make a bet? Saxony, you want to make a friendly wager with me? Sure, what's that?
你们想打赌吗?萨克森州,你愿意与我做个友好的赌注吗?当然,那是什么赌注?
Paragraph 17: Okay, I will bet you that debt to GDP gets to 200 before it gets to 50. And I'll bet you however amount of money you want and we can do it for our own personal gain or for charity.
Paragraph 18: That may well be true, but the question is how bad is 200% debt to GDP? I don't think that's a really bad scenario. I mean, I really don't think it matters.
Paragraph 19: I think the point is if you think it's gone left, if that happens, yeah, we'll have a lot of money. You'll just have to profit from it. If you think it's happening, your job is to profit from it.
Paragraph 21: I think it will too. I'm just like... Let's do the math on that real quick. So the the size of GDP is what? About 25 trillion and we're at about 32 trillion of debt.
Paragraph 22: If we're to have 200% debts of GDP right now, it would be at 50 trillion of debt. Now, let's assume that's imputed and illustrated what you would need to finance that. Right.
Paragraph 23: 4%. So I think 4%. You have to calculate the duration. I understand, but just... Let's just... Let's just base it. So let's say 4%. So 4% on 50 trillion is 2 trillion a year. Yep.
Paragraph 24: Which is... Isn't that like half the budget? Yeah, more. And that's my point. That's why you have to see taxes go up to over 70% because it's the only way you can...
Paragraph 25: You got to tax everything in order to fund that. So US government has collected 2 trillion in fiscal year 2023. Now, I guess we haven't done a complete year, but let's do 2022.
Paragraph 2: You're using more than half of the government's income based on the current tax rates to fund the interest payments on your debt. That's not even to pay for social services.
Paragraph 3: That's not even to pay for the defense. That's not even to pay for government services. That's just more than half of the income.
这甚至还没有包括国防费用和政府服务费用。这只是收入的一半多一点。
Paragraph 4: I guess maybe we're just speaking past each other. I guess you guys are expressing anxiety and concern. And I'm just expressing, here's how one would make money because it's pretty obvious what's going to happen.
Paragraph 5: We're going to 200. We're not going to 50. So I just kind of... How do you make money? I think there's a lot of ways that you could make money.
Paragraph 6: I'm not going to share those on the pot anymore, but there's a lot of money to make money. What's the trade there? Stan Druckenmiller said it's the opposite of Stan's trades actually.
Paragraph 7: Would you go long the dollar in short gold? No, because those are like antiquated ways of making money where you have to have these convoluted derivatives agreements with these banks.
你会做多美元同时做空黄金吗?不会,因为这种方式已经过时,需要和银行签订繁琐的衍生品协议来赚钱。
Paragraph 8: And I've done these before where you're levered up to billions of dollars of risk. It proves nothing and I don't see it while it died.
我以前做过这些事情,你承担了数十亿美元的风险。这证明不了什么,我也看不出它会有什么好处。
Paragraph 9: I think that there are simpler strategies that you can implement, but I think Stan is basically betting that the US will break and that we will be forced in some way to bring debt to GDP closer to 50 than to 150 or 200.
Paragraph 10: And I would just bet the opposite. And it's not because I want it to happen or that he's not intellectually or morally right.
我会打赌是相反的情况。这并不是因为我希望发生这种情况或者他在智力或道德上有问题。
Paragraph 11: Also, inflation down again, we've kind of gotten used to this, but I thought this was a particularly interesting chart.
此外,通货膨胀再次下降,我们对此已经习以为常了,但我认为这张图表格外有意思。
Paragraph 12: If you look at food goods and energy, all going in the right direction, services still very expensive. Any thoughts on the fed and inflation as we wrap up on sort of where we're right here is another 25 basis points.
Paragraph 13: Poor inflation is very sticky. Yeah. Right. Yeah. I mean, with CPIs down to 4.9%, but core actually, it was up. It was up. It was up. 5.3% something like that. Yeah, core was up.
Paragraph 14: So yeah, the fed is, it raised another 25 basis points, what we have to like 5.25%. I was ready to stop, you know, two hikes ago, because I thought that the economy was breaking, the banking system was breaking.
Paragraph 16: This is not a great setup for economic recovery. And if you believe, here's a problem with accepting the idea that inflation is going to be persistently high, is if inflation remains persistently high, then the fed won't be able to lower interest rates.
Paragraph 17: So they'll need to keep them elevated. They not even need to keep raising them. And if that happens, they'll continue to be incredible stress on the banking system. And more banks are going to break.
Paragraph 18: And then eventually, that will create the conditions for the financial crisis. I think the thing you guys have to be open to is the fact that we've never really tested the ability for the US to borrow durationally beyond 30 years.
Paragraph 19: And again, we talked about what an error it was in judgment for the Treasury not to issue 100-year bonds. But I think if there's any country in the world that can issue 100-year bonds, it's the United States of America.
Paragraph 20: And I do think that they'll be able to get durational assets that are that far out on the yield curve. So I, again, am less concerned about the debt wall here because I think you'll be able to push matured these out.
Paragraph 21: You'll be able to refi a bunch of short-term obligations into the future. And if you look at where the yield curve is, 10 years at three and a half, 340 something.
Paragraph 22: So the thought is that inflation goes down. If you put it out to 100 years, I would be very surprised if 100-year rates, if they priced a bond, weren't somewhere sub 1%.
Paragraph 23: So I do think it becomes effectively free money for the United States. And I think it's just a practical thing they need to explore. By the way, corporates have explored these 50-year bonds and greater.
Paragraph 24: So I think it's just like it's a matter of mathematics as you guys have just illustrated here that the US has to push out past 30 years. So we'll have 50-year US bonds. We'll have 100-year US bonds.
Paragraph 25: Again, I'm not here to claim whether it's right or wrong, but I think the simple way to acknowledge that is just that we are going to re-inflate the money supply over the long term because it's the only sustainable way that politicians can get elected and re-elected. And I think the best thing to do there is to own risk assets.
Paragraph 26: Let's move on to the presidential election real quick. I'm curious, gentlemen. Last week we had RFK on. Did you get any feedback? The show obviously did really well.
Paragraph 1: A lot of people watched it. I got a tremendous amount of feedback. People thought he was a fascinating, interesting character. Some people thought. he was a conspiracy theorist. They pointed out a bunch of different moments during the interview.
Paragraph 2: But what was the general feedback you got? My biggest thing was I think he surprised a lot of people to the upside. A lot of people emailed me saying they thought one specific thing with him. We tried to address it, which is he's painted as this kind of conspiracy theorist or anti-vax person by the mainstream media. And overwhelmingly, so much of the feedback was, wow, this guy is so totally different because you gave him a long format in order for him to really talk.
Paragraph 3: I thought he was really engaging and very interesting and very smart. Sacks, did you get feedback on it? Yeah, I mean, I think he is very authentic. I think he's very principled. I think that he's a rebel in a way.
Paragraph 4: I mean, to grow up in the Kennedy family and to be part of all of those elite circles, whether it's in Hollywood or Harvard or where do they go for the summer? Martha's Vineyard. Martha's Vineyard or... Can a bunk port. Can a bunk port. I mean, you think about all of the elite circles that he grew up in, and for him to deviate from Democratic Party orthodoxy and elite thinking in all these really significant ways, shows that he is, again, very principled, very authentic and I think a rebel in a really good way. And he's telling people a lot of things that you just don't hear on the Democratic side and through the mainstream media.
Paragraph 5: So I think it's all positive. Yeah, I got positive feedback on a freeberg. The one thing people said was, some people said not a lot, but they expected us to push back maybe on him harder or something or be harder. I thought we did an interesting job of letting him talk and really taking these topics to 10 or 20 minutes each.
Paragraph 6: The one people were particularly, I don't know, concerned as the right word or puzzled by was that we didn't push back as much on the vaccine stuff. We just let him talk about it. A week later, what do you think about his vaccine position and would you have pushed back more or do you regret not pushing back more freeberg?
Paragraph 7: He made a lot of generalized statements or statements that I think take a concern about one thing and then make them evidence for a whole thing being off. For example, there is a vaccine that is inefficacious. There was a vaccine that had mercury in it. Therefore, all vaccines are bad. Oh, we over-vaccinate now.
Paragraph 8: Many vaccines today that kids take going into schools have saved countless lives and they've had a really critical role in reducing a lot of child born illness. It's been just an incredible advance for humanity for medicine, et cetera. I think he had a number of points he made about the COVID vaccine. I know he's made these points for many years. He kind of extrapolates that it's evidence that vaccines are generally over-prescribed and overused and pharma companies are just out to make money and the government is aligned with pharma companies to just try and make money.
Paragraph 9: I don't think that that is necessarily true. I think that there are certainly incentives that can drive bad behavior, but I do not think that looking at the evidence, both contra-evidence and evidence of safety and benefit that childhood vaccines should be kind of changed in terms of how we're doing things today. There may be some things to change, but generally, I think that they're very beneficial.
Paragraph 10: I don't love how he frames these things. I think that instead of having a more nuanced conversation about this particular thing and this particular example, he blankets things and people get scared and they're like, oh my gosh, you're right, we should stop doing vaccines for kids. That's very dangerous. That would be very bad for society. Be very bad for our kids. I think that we need to address that in more detail over time.
Paragraph 11: It's one of these hard things where you have to have a nuanced conversation to give people all the necessary depth and context to feel better informed, to make a better decision because there's always this kind of gripping fear that if something's off and I'm getting poisoned or I'm getting bad medicine or people are trying to make money off me, people are immediately react negatively and angrily and they want to resolve to a blanket position. I don't think that that's healthy.
Paragraph 12: I'd love to have a deeper debate on that but the reason we didn't go into it is because we had limited time with him and we wanted to take our time kind of giving him a chance to talk about the overview of topics and getting his point of view across the set of topics that we generally thought were going to be relevant in the selection cycle.
Paragraph 1: That's two hours. We still have enough time. You could talk for two hours about vaccine.
这就是两个小时的时间。我们还有足够的时间。你可以谈论关于疫苗两个小时。
Paragraph 2: Could I address the conspiracy theorist point? Yeah. Sure. First of all, that label conspiracy theorist doesn't pack the punch that it used to. As you recall, anyone who thought the virus might have come from the Wuhan lab was once called a conspiracy theorist. If you believed that Fauci and the NIH were funding gain a function of research, that was dubbed a conspiracy theory. If you believe that cloth masked and do anything, that was a conspiracy theory. If you believe that 100 Biden was getting paid off by foreign governments, that was a conspiracy theory. This accusation just doesn't really pack the same punch.
Paragraph 3: Not having a relationship with the Russians and this family meeting with the Russians multiple times. That's the look in the conspiracy theory, Jake. My point is it doesn't pack the same punch. In some cases, it's starting to become a badge of honor. That's one thing.
Paragraph 4: The second thing is when you listen to him make his arguments, he's not just alleging certain things. He's laying out his evidence. He's connecting dots. He's explaining the causation. You can disagree with it.
Paragraph 5: He is thinking in terms of causation. It made me think about something that Peter T01 said about founders being Asperger's where he flipped it on his head and said, what is it about our society that talks founders out of all of their contrarian ideas unless they are a little bit Asperger's. Interesting.
Paragraph 6: What is it about our political system and our media that talks people out of seeing causation unless they are a little bit of a conspiracy theorist? What I mean by that is look at San Francisco. All you have to do is walk down the street and you can see that things have gone totally off the rails and whatever we've done politically is not working.
Paragraph 7: And yet the voters in San Francisco just like completely block that out. They don't see any causation between the way they vote at the city level or at the state level and the policies that are manifest on our streets. They just don't see any causation there. And you can just play that movie over and over again.
Paragraph 8: Our elites don't see any causation between the way they ran the country and the election of Donald Trump. The fact that we hauled out our manufacturing in the Rust Belt by throwing open our markets to China exporting our jobs to China the way that we squandered all this money in the forever wars of the Middle East. Regardless of what your views are on those policies, it's pretty obvious to me that they help cause the rise of Donald Trump. And yet you just can't get the media to see any causation between the policies they endorse and the inevitable reaction to them.
Paragraph 9: And so the way I see this is that our political analysis certainly our mainstream media they're just completely bereft of seeing any causation between policies and the problems in our society. And so along comes RFK Jr. And he's willing to actually connect dots. Now you may not agree with all the dots he's connecting. But maybe it takes it the same way maybe it takes a little bit of an Asperger's founder to stick with their contrarian idea so they don't get talked out of it. Maybe it takes a guy like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. not to get talked out of these things that he believes some of which I think are just obviously true.
Paragraph 10: I thought one of the salient points he made was just hey listen farmer spends an awful lot on advertising. The media is dependent on that advertising. They don't seem to criticize it all that much. Maybe that's something we should look into. Now I don't think that like Pfizer is writing the script for Anderson Cooper. But you can be sure that if Pfizer didn't like something Anderson Cooper said they somebody they call it CNN and say something to and have a conversation about you know setting the record straight whatever how you would frame it speaking of CNN. Right.
Paragraph 11: And don't leave that point before. I thought it was a really interesting part of the conversation when he mentioned that he had been friends way back with Roger Ailes. Yeah. Roger Ailes specifically told him. Yes. That they could not post certain or tell of I certain content. If it was too critical of farmer companies because they were the no one advertiser. Yeah.
Paragraph 12: And should farmer companies even be advertising. So then all of a sudden let's say it was a conspiracy theory or he is like way out there in terms of his belief. But the fact is it does bring up the point should we actually be letting farmer companies advertise on television or on news programs. Maybe they shouldn't be allowed to be on news for more. It's not like it's not like the consumer who watches the ads can go out and buy the drug. I guess you can subscribe by a doctor. They can ask their doctor about it. Yeah. Yeah.
Paragraph 1: Well speaking of CNN. There was an absolute train wreck of a presidential town hall with a moderator name.
说到CNN,他们最近有一个总统市政厅节目真是一场完全的灾难,主持人还搞错了名字。
Paragraph 2: Caitlin Collins. I don't recognize her. name. I don't know if she has a show on CNN. But I saw the clips from it.
“凯特琳·柯林斯”这个名字我不认识,也不知道她在CNN有没有节目。但是我看了她节目片段的视频。
Paragraph 3: I couldn't find the full debate. But my Lord was this. It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. It was unbelievable.
我找不到完整的辩论。但是我的上帝,这是令人难以置信的。这太不可思议了。它真的是令人难以置信的。
Paragraph 4: He got a standing ovation. He absolutely owned her on every question. All of her questions were about January 6th. All of them are valid. But none of them were about running the country essentially.
Paragraph 5: And he was hilarious, at least to this audience. And CNN's staffers are really upset that they did this. That they gave him that they platformed him, which shows you exactly where they stand.
Paragraph 6: They're upset. I guess they thought they could own him and they did. Did you guys see the part where he was talking about the trial? And he's like, and she has a cat named vagina.
Paragraph 7: Did you mean it was surreal? And I just thought to myself, is this going to be the next year and a half we're going to have these town halls?
你是说这感觉非常超现实吗?我自己想,我们会不会在接下来的一年半时间里持续举办这些城镇大会呢?
Paragraph 8: And then I thought, Oh, he's going to get elected. Is it true that EG and Carol has a cat named vagina? I have no idea. But it was that was a pretty vicious section.
Paragraph 9: And then I got the sense that CNN's management wants this. This is like a ratings bananza for them. And I think they see really want him.
然后我有一种感觉,CNN的管理层希望这样。这对他们来说就像一个评级大丰收。我认为他们真的很想要他。
Paragraph 10: Freeberg said it. It's so true. He's so entertaining. I could not stop laughing. I watched him once again. And I was like, man, it's like one of your one of your old TV shows that you don't really remember watching a lot of it.
Paragraph 11: It comes back on and you're like, he's so ridiculous. The things he says. It's true. When he first got elected, I was so afraid.
它重新启动了,你会觉得,他太荒谬了。他说的话真是这样。当他第一次当选时,我非常害怕。
Paragraph 12: And then you realize, this guy is just an entertainer really. He's a terrible politician. Bill Bar said that. Yeah. Did you see the bar interview? The bar clip that I shared is just bananas about Trump.
Paragraph 13: But so he's a showman and he's a great showman. He's entertaining. And you realize that he was, that's all he's ever really wanted to be. It was like famous and popular and on television. And he got all of those things and he took it to the most infinite level.
Paragraph 14: What Bill Bar said was most insightful that it's chaos when he actually tries to get things done. He can't get things done.
第14段:比尔·巴尔所说的最为深刻的是,当他真正尝试去完成事情时,会出现混乱。他无法完成任务。
Paragraph 15: And he'll tell you all the things that you want to hear, that he wants to that you want to see get done. He did this to Peter Teele. And Peter Teele spoke about this publicly. So I'm not saying anything out of line here.
Paragraph 16: I don't know if this is something that's on the record or not. But it was publicly stated that Peter was disappointed that Trump did not get the things done that he said he was going to get done.
第16段:我不知道这件事是否记录下来了。但公开表态说,彼得对特朗普未能完成他所说的事情感到失望。
Paragraph 17: And I think that's really what what he does is he incites. He entertains. He gets people engaged. He knows what you want to hear. He sells you on it.
Paragraph 18: He cripples the establishment, whichever one feels treated poorly by that everyone feels held back by that everyone feels has taken something from them that isn't giving something to them.
他削弱了任何一个机构,无论谁感到受到了不公对待,感觉被压制,感觉被拿走了一些对他们不公的东西。
Paragraph 19: And then he says, you know what, I'm going to fix all that for you. And then you get excited by it. And then all of a sudden he doesn't actually deliver it.
Paragraph 20: And in four years of gone by and we've forgotten about it and he's come back in and he's kind of you know titillating again. So I think I think I think the reality is he's got a real shot at getting reelected here.
Paragraph 21: Oh my god. Here's what I want to do. I'll go around the horn. I'll start with you, sir. I mean, he said January 6 was like a beautiful day.
天哪。我想这么做。我会沿着弧线走一圈。从你开始,先生。我是说,他说1月6日像是美好的一天。
Paragraph 22: He said that everybody in the Republican Party who said he lost the election is wrong. And that the election was in fact stolen. Like he literally doubled down on every single thing.
Paragraph 23: Right. So at the end of this he gets a standing ovation in New Hampshire. So how did CNN pick that audience? Did they do that on purpose? Did they know that was going to be the outcome?
Paragraph 24: But at the end of the day, after that does that increases chances of winning the Republican nomination and the presidency in your mind sacks? Yes, of course it does.
Paragraph 25: Why? Look, well, look, I mean Donald Trump showed that he's a force of nature. He's a wrecking ball. He went into CNN's carefully laid trap where he's not just up against Caitlin Collins.
Paragraph 26: Make no mistakes. You've got an earpiece in her ear with all of CNN's researchers and hosts and producers. They're all feeding her every attack behind. Yeah.
Paragraph 27: Exactly. And he basically demolished her. He controlled the interview. He had the crowd laughing when he wanted them to laugh responding the way he wanted them to respond.
Paragraph 28: And to the point now, where the staffers are like, oh my god, what do we do? AOC was basically, you know, ringing her hands about how? How could CNN platform him this way?
Paragraph 29: So, so look, he gave no quarter. What's so ever? Like you said, he doubled down on everything. He tripled down.
Paragraph 30: And he showed his ability to kind of bend reality to his will. So all the strengths. of Trump, that being said, I'm sure that Trump and his campaign were delighted with what happened last night, because I do think it makes him more likely to be the nominee. I think first and foremost, I think Republicans want a candidate who will fight the media and their fake narratives and lies.
Paragraph 31: No matter how many lies Trump tells, they think the media is the bigger liar. And they want someone who is willing to step in the lion's den and take them on. And he is incredibly adroit and quick on his feet. And DeSantis is imploding. Well, I wouldn't say that. He hasn't been in the justice. I would say he declined. So what would any of them do? Yeah. Just be fair. DeSantis clearly is the underdog. Okay, but just give the guy a chance because we haven't even seen what he can do yet. But there's no question that Trump showed an adroitness and a willingness to counter punch and fight back that they base their Republican base, definitely response to.
Paragraph 32: Now, yeah. So we know that Trump is happy with the debate. I think the other party that is super happy with his debate is Biden and all of his people. Yeah. Because as much as that debate helped Trump in the Republican primary, it did nothing for him in the general. I don't think. Like you said, Jason, he doubled down on January six. The campaign ads write themselves. Okay, they're going to show footage of January six with a tear gas and the riots. Stop being beaten. People being shot. People pushing down the barricades. And they're going to do a narrative of voice over with Trump saying it was a beautiful day. The people there had love in their arms itself. It writes itself. And then he doubled down really strongly on brovie Wade. That was crazy. Being overturned.
Paragraph 33: He's like, yeah, that was, I mean, I don't have his quote. I think it doesn't hurt him in the Republican primary, but it's, you know, it will lead to a campaign attack ad in the general. And there were other issues as well. Okay. So the Biden campaign is super happy right now because I think the only Republican he could beat is Trump. I think the reverse is true for Trump. I think the only Democrat who Trump could be it is Biden. I mean, they are both two of the most unpopular candidates in America in a general election. So they love the fact they're going to be facing each other.
Paragraph 34: But you know, who doesn't is the American people. Two-thirds American people don't want this choice. They say they are already fatigued by it. And they're only going to get more fatigued by it because I think for the next, like you said, 18 months, we're going to have the Trump show with him taking on the media. And that plays into Biden's hands because Biden doesn't need to campaign. He'll just let Trump and the media beat each other up. He'll do a Rose Garden campaign where once a week he goes in front of the microphones and responds to whatever Trump's latest outrage is.
Paragraph 1: He doesn't have the vigor to campaign and he won't. And then we'll just see where the chips land. I think that it's it's quite possible here that after 18 months of Trump and the media beating each other up, the American people just say, you know what, this Biden guy is totally senile, but I'm like so tired of the Trump show. I've got Trump fatigue again. I'm just going to have to go with Biden. And I think this is how Biden gets reelected. This is a disaster for American. The fact that we are putting Biden, who's in clearly incognitive decline. and Trump as the two candidates again, the two candidates nobody wants makes me think this is just like a complete disaster for America. Can we not find two other candidates?
Paragraph 2: Trump, what did you think coming out of his stand up special on CNN? I think that I'm more surprised by the fact that the big Republican mega donors have taken a big step back away from DeSantis. I thought that if the money train on the Republican side picked DeSantis, that it would be very difficult for Trump to overcome it. But he's managed to somehow fade that bullet too. He's like Neo in the matrix. It's like, you have these guys shooting bullets at this guy and he just keeps somehow finding a way to evade them. But this week, I was just going to say, well, Schwartzman, step back, Ken Griffin basically has gone silent. So there's a lot of guys that came close to him.
Paragraph 3: And this is what I've maintained, which is I think DeSantis ages poorly. He's best before you actually spend time with him. And the more time people seem to spend, and again, this is just evidence by these big Republican mega donors, they don't seem to be running towards this guy. They seem to be at least saying we're going to hedge your breaching. Yeah, they're waiting.
Paragraph 4: Friedberg, any thoughts? And then I'll go back to you. I went for like 10 minutes. The other Friedberg going, then you go, Friedberg. And he thoughts on it in terms of is this make him more electable? Do you think he's going to win? Where's your gut telling? The CNN thing? Yeah. Yes. Post CNN. Do you think he's going to win? Do you think he beats Biden?
Paragraph 5: The crazy polling data is that Biden had 20% of the votes go into RFK Jr. who's like nobody, no one knows candidate, and he's beating a sitting president in his own party. So that says a lot about how much support Biden has. And I think that Trump is going to be pretty appealing as the anti-biden candidate. I mean, Biden was the anti-Trump candidate and now Trump's the anti-biden candidate. And right now he looks like he's dynamic and he was a big shift, I think. RFK Jr. feels a lot like a Trump candidate to me too. I mean, some of the positioning and the statements and the way he talks and being anti-establishment, he could also have that appeal.
令人惊讶的民意调查数据显示,拜登获得了20%的选票,投给了像没人知道的候选人RFK Jr.,而且他击败了自己政党的现任总统。这说明了拜登拥有多少支持。我认为,特朗普将作为反拜登候选人非常吸引人。我的意思是,拜登曾经是反特朗普的候选人,现在特朗普是反拜登的候选人。现在,他看起来非常有活力,是一个重大的转变。RFK Jr. 在我看来也很像特朗普的候选人。我的意思是,他的一些立场和陈述方式,以及他的反建制主义,也具有吸引力。
Paragraph 6: I think there's a non-zero chance Biden actually doesn't run for a reelection at this point. Hmm. Play that out. That's a really scary scenario because I think that's how we get a president Newsom. Listen, I mean, Newsom is warming up in the bullpen right now and he's not just hanging out back there and, you know, spending Shaw. He's pitching fastballs very noisily. He's been running TV ads. He's been going to Florida. He's been picking fights, you know, well outside of his state. He is basically telling the Democratic Party put me in the game coach and he's just waiting for the signal to go. He needs to know from Democratic Party insiders and the establishment that he can go. He doesn't want to risk throwing away his career challenging Biden.
Paragraph 7: But if Biden becomes too weak to run and he gets the signal to go, he'll go and he can raise a lot of money and I'm not saying. No, but explain. Sorry. Can you can you guys just explain both of you like how does that actually like what do you guys think happens like there's a press conference that where Biden says he's retiring?
Paragraph 8: I think he said after careful thought and consideration I've made the decision that at my age I'd like to spend more time with my family and not continue this hefty responsibility and I'd love to see someone else take the mantle and I think that that will result, you know, from a series of polls that will indicate that he may not have a shot if he continues this campaign. I think that I'm not saying that's a certainty. I think that's a non-zero chance right now that that scenario plays out.
Paragraph 1: When that does play out to sexist point it's probably not just Newson, but there's probably half a dozen and likely a dozen folks that pop their head up and want to get not just kind of have a real run at the presidency on the Democratic side, but probably end up saying I want to heighten people's awareness of me and so on and they all run on that on that ticket.
Paragraph 2: But the DNC might be having a real tough conversation in the next couple of months about how Biden is polling and whether he really is the right candidate to have on the ticket.
Paragraph 3: Let's see. Let me give you a historical example. I mentioned this I think when our FKJ was on the pod, but LBJ was the sitting Democratic president in 1968 and he went into the New Hampshire primary and he won the New Hampshire primary but not by a big enough margin.
Paragraph 4: A few weeks later he announced he was leaving the race because of health reasons. But the specific challenger who helped knocked him out of New Hampshire was Gene McCarthy and then after that happened Bobby Kennedy got in the race.
Paragraph 5: So we could have a situation here where it's Bobby Kennedy Jr. is you know initially playing the Gene McCarthy role of being kind of the anti-war protest candidate who helps knock Biden out of the race and then who knows. I mean he could become... He could come, Judge Gavin Newsom. They're going to want to come in into the race at that point.
Paragraph 6: But remember the thing that happened in early 1968 that caused LBJ to leave the race is you had the TET offensive and Cronkite got back from Vietnam saying the war cannot be won and then at that point it was like game over. Well look this Ukrainian counteroffensive, Zalinsky just announced today that they need more time.
Paragraph 7: So we've been hearing for months if not a year that you're going to have a big Ukrainian counteroffensive in the spring of summer of this year and Ukraine is going to win this war and instead it looks like it's being destroyed. Ukraine is. So this war is turning into a debacle. I think it could be an even worse debacle by the end of the year.
Paragraph 8: The economy has a banking crisis going on. It's turning into a big fiasco. So I think it's very possible that Biden could announce that it's time for him to step aside and you could see the floodgates open for Newsom or J.B. Pritzker some like that. However let me just say this.
Paragraph 9: I think the odds of Biden leaving the race went down significantly as a result of last night because all of the political people around Biden are saying we know how to win this thing.
Paragraph 10: We just A.B. tested the strategy in the midterms. Remember we had three quarters of the American people in the midterms think that we were ready to recession and the country was on the wrong track and the out of power parties were supposed to gain seats and the red wave turned into a puddle.
Paragraph 11: Why? Because Biden's strategy of saying democracy was on the ballot and running as January 6th. It actually worked. I'm not saying I bought that argument but enough independence did. Independence ended up breaking for Biden and the Democrats Republicans didn't but independence did.
Paragraph 13: Now it's not guaranteed to work. I think this thing's going to be a nail bider. I think it's going to be a toss up if it's Biden versus Trump. But I think that Biden's people have to feel very good about this matchup because they feel like they already know how to run the skimping.
Paragraph 14: This is what he said about Roe v. Wade. It was such a great victory. I mean can you imagine how that's going to play with women voters?
这是他对罗伊诉韦德案所言的话。那是一个伟大的胜利。我是说,你能想象那将如何在女性选民中产生影响吗?
Paragraph 15: They're just going to be like yeah no it was not a great victory. You took away our right to choose for ourselves. Well definitely democratic women voters will not like it but there's a lot of Republican women voters that that will support that state here.
Paragraph 16: Let me give you this 30 percent. Let me give you this data of the country. So take a look at this. I don't think you're right Jason. I just shared with you kind of the Reuters polling data the most recent one.
Paragraph 17: And the number one issue at 24 percent of likely voters that they care about is the economy. 24 percent. Yeah. Number two is crime at 14 percent. Number three is immigration at 9 percent.
Paragraph 18: Number four is inequality at 6 percent and on and on and on. Only when you get down to like number 10 you get to abortion which comes in at 3 percent. 2 percent of Democrats 1 percent of Republicans.
Paragraph 19: Yeah but what is the margin of the election? Well I don't think that that's the issue that breaks it. I think there's other things that there's significant differences on particularly around crime and immigration inequality that are polling much higher in terms of importance to likely voters.
Paragraph 1: But do they drive turnout? Like abortion does.
它们是否能促进投票率?就像堕胎一样。
Paragraph 2: I don't know. I'm just I'm just thinking of these numbers. It's like you know one. one to 3 percent of people saying it matters to them is not that significant.
我不知道。我只是在考虑这些数字。就像你知道的那样,只有1到3%的人表示这很重要,并不是非常显著。
Paragraph 3: I think these other topics are going to be very divisive and very different very polar difference. And what people say in a poll and what people turn out to vote for like for some people that is a major issue.
Paragraph 4: But who knows? I think it's a toss up basically. Look like I said I think the only candidate that Biden could be is Trump and Biden's probably the only sitting president that Trump can be. So I mean again they're both in poll nationally in the mid 30s and this is the choice we have.
Paragraph 5: I got to give sacks as red meat. I saw these Republicans are going on a revenge tour here to go after the Biden family. They said they would and they have. So the oversight House Oversight Committee reveals I guess nine Biden family members received wire transfers from foreign nationals by shell corporations and they don't have any connections to Biden.
Paragraph 6: We know that Hunter was securing the bag all over the planet. He's clearly a grifter. I don't think it was going to doubt about that. What's the truth here and how much evidence do they have? Because this is obviously a partisan thing just like there were partisan things on the other side when they were investigating Trump.
Paragraph 7: So how do you look at this information this revelation to keep they're using this like Biden cried crime family meme. Do you think this is actually evidence of something? Where's it just another rich family with a bunch of LLCs?
Paragraph 8: Another rich family wait how do they get rich? Good question. The candidates were a rich family but the Biden's were not a rich family. So how do they get rich? Their only business is they don't have money here. They don't know how much money is actually here and how it's being well whatever it is they have.
Paragraph 9: It's not read meat for me. I just think the media should have done this job investigating the story properly and what this investigation has turned up is that there's a lot of members of the Biden family.
Paragraph 10: I think they're up to like 10 or 12 or something who received payments flowing from foreign governments. No one can tell you what any of those people did in exchange for the money. It does appear to be an influence peddling operation.
Paragraph 11: I don't know whether that's technically influence peddling operation. So people were giving money. Again the point is that why would you give money to members of the Biden family? It presumably for some sort of access to the person who's been a Washington for 50 years.
Paragraph 12: Did they know who gave the money? Is it China? Is it Ukraine? Do they have that data? Well I think we know about Burisma which is basically a Ukrainian. Yeah and then I think China is another one.
Paragraph 13: Now I don't know what the quid pro quo is for that money but I wonder if this is like the crack in or if this is actually reality because they seem to be short on actual facts. I think they got a lot there but I mean they're putting out all these reports but listen I think to me the actually the bigger story or the bigger scandal is just more details on the way that the security state wrote that fake letter basically calling the Hunter Biden story Russian disinformation.
Paragraph 14: There's an email now that just came out where Mike Morell is corresponding with John Brennan and Morell specifically says we're creating the letter to give Biden a talking point in the debate. They're the former CI directors right?
Paragraph 15: Yeah exactly. Both of them were CI directors at different points. So there's no question now that that letter where 51 security state officials claimed that the Hunter Biden story is Russian disinformation that was all basically a political dirty trick and dirty tricks happen but I don't think the CIA should be involved.
Paragraph 16: That's the thing. I don't think the the branches of our government should be involved in helping to get any candidate. These guys weren't even in government. They're former but former yeah. They're really related.
Paragraph 17: So just to be clear it wasn't like the CIA. They could you have the the security clearances. But it's not the CIA did this. These are former CIA folks. They actually Morell needed the approval of the CIA.
Paragraph 18: That was another thing that came out. That's what bothers me more than anything is I do not think our permanent government, especially security agencies should be involved in partisan politics. They really need to stay out. That is election meddling. That bothers me.
Paragraph 19: That's a form of corruption that I think is even worse than monetary payments.
这种类型的腐败,我认为比金钱支付更加严重。
Paragraph 1: Can you tell us about your trip to the Middle East? What have you been doing there?
你能给我们讲讲你去中东旅行的经历吗?你在那里做些什么?
Paragraph 2: So our bestie raggersoner was coming here and we were out the poker game a couple of weeks ago. Maybe a month ago and he said he was going and I've always wanted to come to UAE and I've never seen Dubai or Abu Dhabi and so I said yeah I'd love to go with you and we did a couple speaking gigs.
Paragraph 3: Where are you staying? So four seasons in Ritz, four seasons in Abu Dhabi and the Ritz here in Dubai and I was just going to do these three speaking gigs a podcast and isn't I have seen Dubai incredible.
Paragraph 4: Have you been in the financial district here? Yeah. It's all been built in the last 10 years. I would say generally speaking what I'm super impressed about and it's not a fundraising trip.
Paragraph 5: I was just going but then one of your former employees, Chimoff, set me up with a bunch of meetings because it's like okay there's a lot of people who want to meet you. So I'm doing like maybe a dozen meetings or so and there is a real this is a very progressive place that the UAE of all the and Dubai.
Paragraph 6: Obviously is very progressive and so it reminds me of like you know Silicon Valley in the early days where everybody is doing something and it's incredibly cosmopolitan.
显然,这非常进步,让我想起早期的硅谷,那时每个人都在做些事情,而且非常国际化。
Paragraph 7: There's only 500,000 nationals but there's 10 million people here. So there are people than any other language in Dubai. Yeah I mean the number of people here from all around the world is bonkers and then everybody's working on something.
Paragraph 8: Everybody's got a project and the people are delightful. Did you go to the French restaurant? I told you about in Abu Dhabi. I did. It's quite nice.
Paragraph 9: Did you get the rib eye? Did you get the rib eye? Yeah we had like a family style thing so I didn't get the rib eye but it was exceptional. The food's exceptional.
Paragraph 10: It's just like incredibly cosmopolitan. It's like going to New York you know or London and they are there's a very unique moment in time right now.
Paragraph 11: Sax when you go to Abu Dhabi and you stay at the four seasons in the ADGM go to this French restaurant and order the rib eye. It is a top five steak I've ever had. Top five. And I've been there. I never went to Italy. So delicious. So delicious. So delicious.
Paragraph 12: And in Dubai do not stay at the Ritz and I have seen I have seen incredible but the Ritz sucks. State the Bulgari hotel. Beautiful. Just beautiful.
Paragraph 13: But there's a very unique moment in time. I literally came down the elevator at the four seasons and I met four or five people from Silicon Valley in the lobby.
但是在一个非常独特的时刻,我从四季酒店的电梯里出来,在大厅里遇见了四五个来自硅谷的人。
Paragraph 14: And then I came out of dinner and there was a table of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. It is I mean it's basically like going to the Rosewood in Abu Dhabi.
第14段:后来我吃完晚餐出来,看到一桌硅谷企业家和风险投资家。这就像去阿布扎比的瑰丽木酒店一样。
Paragraph 15: But what a statement that is like the US has tapped out. We are like broke. That's I think basically they are the way it's been explained to me is they believe they have 20 years 30 years to convert the oil economy into a technology capital allocator economy.
Paragraph 16: And so they want to make evergreen funds to invest. They haven't had a chance to invest in venture capital because most venture capital there weren't that many. They were fully allocated and there was no opportunity now with what's happened in the United States in this pullback and sort of the cycle starting over again.
Paragraph 17: I think there's an opportunity for them to invest in some funds and start relationships. And then you know we've had a long talk here about human rights in different countries and it's not a monolith over here.
Paragraph 18: I mean I don't know who needs to hear that exactly but there there's these countries are very different. Very different. I'm sure they appreciate your lectures on that subject.
Paragraph 19: I actually you know what's interesting we didn't have lectures on it but we had I've had multiple conversations about these issues. I enjoy your lectures on this pod.
Paragraph 20: I don't lecture about it. I think these are important issues that people discuss and the serious thing is a number of these countries are majority young people and they are reforming very quickly and rights are changing and so the question is for you know all of us and for the world is do we collaborate and you know support as they you know become more liberal and become more tolerant and they you know become more western basically and young people it's very western here and the parties going on here are pretty much like the parties I attended in L.A. or New York and so I think actually we're probably not as at least UAE and a couple of countries here are not as disparate as like we what might think.
Paragraph 21: I'm glad you did the trip because I'm glad you're talking like that that there isn't an us versus them point of view you know visiting and seeing the culture and the intention of the people within the culture super important and I think it's good that you did it so good to hear.
Paragraph 4: Okay, where would I want to watch that? Yeah, thank you Lb, you're right. I agree. I want to watch the Valencia video for the third time. Did you see that?
好的,我该去哪里观看呢?是啊,谢谢Lb,你说得对。我同意。我想再看一遍瓦伦西亚的视频。你看到了吗?
Paragraph 5: Yeah, I took an outtake from the guys' video on Lord of the Rings. We'll put the link in the show notes, but this guy made this incredible AI generated Wes Anderson does Lord of the Rings, oh I just see that. Did you see that? It's amazing and the clip I'm using today as a background is an outtake from the trailer!
是的,我是从那些人的《指环王》视频中选出来的一段片段。我们会将链接放在节目注释中,但这个家伙制作了一个令人难以置信的人工智能生成的 Wes Anderson 版本的《指环王》视频,哦,我刚刚看到了。你看到了吗?真是太棒了,而我今天要用的片段是从预告片中选出来的!
Paragraph 6: Did you see it? Sex, I don't want to watch it.
你看到它了吗?性爱,我不想看。
Paragraph 7: Oh my god, it's so funny! The guy is incredible! But I mean the creativity and the potential with AI, it's just so evident. This guy talks about it on his website and on his Twitter feed; he did it in a couple of days. A lot of generative tools were integrated to make this possible. It's an amazing two-minute piece of art that I think really speaks to the creativity being unleashed with AI again. Going back to this point about it not just being about job reduction and reductionism but it's really about unleashing new potential that we didn't envision before.
Paragraph 8: Separately, there'll be another, I think we should talk about this next week but there's now this kind of generative video game platform that's being demoed where you can instruct the video game intentions and it generates a in reverse a video game experience for you on the fly. It's something we talked about a couple episodes, probably a couple months ago at this point. I had something on "This Week in Startups" who showed a video game where he made like you make 25 objects in the game it's really incredible in a certain style. Then you say, "I want to make more characters like that, I want to make more backgrounds like that" like you take a Wes Anderson style whatever and it just generates them for you and it just keeps generating them for you.
另外,有一种新型的视频游戏平台被展示了出来。我认为我们应该在下周讨论一下。它可以让你指导游戏意图,然后它会即时生成一个相应的视频游戏体验。几个月前,我们在几集节目中讨论了这个问题。有一个人在《本周初创公司》节目中展示了一款视频游戏,他在游戏中制作了25个物体,这真的非常令人难以置信,因为你可以按照某种风格要求生成更多的角色和背景,就像使用 Wes Anderson 风格,它就会生成出相应的角色和背景,而且会不断地为你生成。
Paragraph 9: So one artist can make a palette for a game and you say, "I want to have a penguin in my game, I want to have a zombie in my game." It just does it and then people who are playing the game can say what they want with prompts and it creates it and you can drive a storyline and then you can integrate with other people's storylines. I mean it's really powerful.
Paragraph 10: Anyway, I gotta run for David Friedberg, David Zach, and Chimapahop here. Hi, my boy J. Cal, I love you boys. We'll see you all next time in the island podcast. Bye-bye, playing out with the greatest hits here on z100.
Paragraph 11: The Balenciaga video featuring the all-in-casts with cameos by Brian Armstrong, Keith Roboi, and Elon Musk. Come at that you Balenciaga. Friday night, eight o'clock. Hardest ticket in New York.
Paragraph 12: When you struggle with a problem, that's when you Balenciaga. Fed mollet, quantitative tightening in the front, quantitative easing in the back.
Paragraph 13: The greatest source of value and wealth creation in the 22nd century could be driven by terrestrial nucleosynthesis.
第13段:21世纪最大的价值和财富创造源可能会由地球核合成所驱动。
Paragraph 14: Getting dressed is easy, owning the runway is hard.
打扮很容易,就是要走在时尚的舞台上却很难。
Paragraph 15: The big winners of tomorrow will likely be the Minecraft YouTubers of today.
明天的大赢家很可能是今天的Minecraft YouTuber。
Paragraph 16: It's easier than ever to confuse popularity and truth.
比以往任何时候容易混淆流行和真相。
Paragraph 17: I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be Balenciaga.
我认为普通人可以选择成为巴黎世家。
Paragraph 18: The mainstream media is the most ancient it's ever been.
第18段:主流媒体目前的历史最为悠久。
Paragraph 19: When I left Facebook, I left an enormous amount of equity on the table. I thought, "I don't want to be a slave to money. I want to be a slave to something bigger."