February 17 2023
- Besties Charity Poker
- Friedberg raised $80K for Humane Society of Animals
- Chamath won $361K for ~Beast Philanthropy - one of the largest food philanthropies in the US
- Lebron playing against 4 year olds 🙂
- Poker game
- Alan Keating, Phil Hellmuth, etc
- Backlash against Mr Beast paying for cataract surgery - mainstream people are also calling it ableist - they are saying the people are being exploited
- Crazy wokeism, virtue signalism
- Ridiculous to call it ableism
- People are doing for others - acknowledge it and congratulate them
- This is equality taken to its extreme - “everyone is equal” and ignore differences
- Publications are tickling people’s outrage to get clicks against rich people
- We can hate this billionaire
- We can hate society
- We can sympathize for the victim
- He even gave $10K to some of those people
- Ohio train derailment
- More outrage against Mr Beast donation vs no outrage against this train derailment
- There was phosgene gas released due to potential controlled demolition
- Train derailed (brakes went out apparently)
- NYT and CNN didn’t cover this
- Several of these cars contained vinyl chloride which is monomer upstream of PVC
- Market size for PVC is $50B per year
- Natural room temp state is a gas
- So compressed and transported as a liquid
- There was a similar train derailment with vinyl chloride in 2012
- So they have practice with controlled burn
- HCL released and some 10% or less is Phosgene
- The solution is dilution
- This is unfortunately more frequent occurrence than realized
- Why would you keep your kids there
- HCl in the river could kill animals
- Want to get the tap water tested before moving back in
- This represents distrust in media and government - emergence of citizen journalism
- Default position of public is - I am being lied to, they are trying to cover it up, I will document it myself
- Vinyl Chloride is a known carcinogen - metabolized in your body can cause issues
- Like Atlas Shrugged, powerful bureaucracies in charge - there is no idea who is responsible for this
- Media is also elite bureaucracies - so they don’t pay attention unless it suits their agenda
- If Greta Thunberg was giving a speech she would get more coverage than this
- Train derailment outside Detroit, Michican carrying chemicals
- What a failure of media
- Lack of coverage on Zantac’s issue with hiding cancer causing problems by Glaxo for 40 years
- FTC commissioner resignation by Michelle Mantine and criticizing issues with Lina Khan
- She doesn’t know how companies work because she hasn’t worked in companies
- Clearly demonstrating because she is highly ineffective at it
- Going after Amazon and Roomba and Facebook for VR exercise app
- Scorched earth against Lina Khan
- Misdiagnosed problem of Big Tech as bigness
- She is hurting the industry
- She has all the right credentials but also right ideology
- Just taking meat cleaver to industry and not being surgical enough
- They don’t know how business works
- Gonzalez case is one of the first cases of Section 230
- They are going after YouTube recommendations
- Conservatives who support this Section 230 will cut their nose to spite their face - conservative content in the future will be taken down more in the future because their positions are perceived as harmful to communities
- Section 230 protections - hard to say they apply to algorithms
- AI ethics and bias
- ChatGPT allowing poem about Biden but not Trump
- Someone at OpenAI decided what topics are OK and what are not
- Sometimes ChatGPT is providing boiler plate answer - am just an AI
- ChatGPT has a chat layer with trust and safety - this intercepts questions provided by user
- Humans are providing that trust and safety layer
- ChatGPT/OpenAI was written by registered Democrat voters
- Microsoft got in trouble in 2016 with Tay because it was hacked/compromised to give racist responses
- Corporations are risk averse
- On google search you can tell the results are not google, they are off party sites
- The AI answer will make users think the AI/company is giving the answer
- Neeva, ChatGPT, Bard, etc are not ready for primetime, just a parlor trick
- They are not going to be unbiased, will not give users control over bias - they don’t see their bias - they are monocultures
- We don’t know how to regulate AI just yet
- AI companies haven’t been transparent yet
- They changed the Biden vs Trump discrepancy
- OpenAI are going against their original mission
- They said AI would be too powerful to be in some private hands - now they decided its too powerful to not be in their hands
- 5-10% of queries will be controversial - but they are giving themselves god like powers to decide the answers for these queries - they are changing history
- Big Tech is infiltrated by government - govt influenced papers, radio, news also in the past
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