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  November 19 2022 Intro Sacks stiffed Chamath on his jet Last week pod hit #16 overall in the world - maybe #14 Lot of DC staffers listen to the pod Trump announces 2024 presidential bid Sacks has lot of fans in DC Jake Sullivan being voice of reason Sacks got into it with Ian Bremner - who is a weather vane for the blob - now they are also coming around to peace Both parties are very hawkish on foreign policy Sacks would serve his country if asked by the President 🙂 Menu of ambassadorships - unspoken - UK is $10M for example Chamath’s friend was UK ambassador under Obama SBF’s parents would get ambassadorship to some place? FBI says it was ego not secrets for Trump’s motive for taking the documents - Sacks was right as usual Biden administration wants Trump to run - keep him in the news Dem strategy to prop up MAGA candidates in the mid terms worked - as hypocritical or machiavellian as it might be Trump will lose presidency if he wins Republican nominati

  November 12 2022 Bestie Game show Milley or Sacks 3-3 If Russia faces prospect of total defeat they will escalate more Top US officials urge diplomacy with Russians Elections Trump backed candidates lost Red wave became puddle or eye-dropper Some of them did win - JD Vance Trump is a weight on the neck of the republican party Sacks got it wrong Sacks was looking at RealClearPolitics poll They were adding a factor based on underweighting on what happened in the last cycle - so RCP overweight was wrong He was looking at only fundamentals - 75% were thinking country is on the wrong track, Biden popularity at historical low - 42% So what went wrong 2 days before election Trump said he’s running - so it became a referendum - who do you want Trump or Biden - he is even more unpopular than Biden Dobbs - twice as significant as early polling was showing - 28% said significant vs 15% Roe v Wade - 15 weeks is maybe a reasonable compromise - DeSantis said this and won - Pur

 November 5 2022 Jason Uber Moncler grift JCal and Sacks pitching in and helping out Elon for resolving issues at Twitter Very much part time thing, helping a friend Within hours of Elon taking over the company on Friday 4chan attack happened, created bots and tweets were negative, racist, slurs, etc They were posting to 0 followers or to other bot accounts - posting racist tweets into the ether So activist groups are claiming racist tweets went up 500% - so its just an organized operation, feed it to news outlets and they feed it to advertisers and so the problem becomes a problem So ad revenue dropped But Elon hadn’t even changed the content moderation policies Lex ep 333 with Andrej Karpathy is interesting - new bots are great, using GPT-3 it will be hard to deal with these Micropurchase to read an article will be a super feature If content is published without a byline - it might be interesting - might be an important behavior change to how journalists cover the news