September 29 2023
- Coleman Hughes in the house
- His girlfriend put him onto the Pod - she’s also a big fan of Sacks (Chamath too!)
- Coleman’s talk on TED caused controversy
- Advocated color blindness - proposing to use class instead of race in public policy
- Lot of blowback from within TED and even some folks at the event - though at the talk itself he got a standing ovation from a bunch of folks in the audience
- Tim Urban noticed the lack of amplification for his talk
- TED released his talk only on the condition that he do a debate and they release a video of that too
- Friedberg has always been a big fan of TED - but noticed some degradation of quality with a narrative they wanted to sell instead of questioning ideas, etc
- Chris Anderson even spoke to him about it
- This seems like the ultimate end game of what Friedberg has seen with TED over the years
- It seems TED has been captured from the bottom up by people who have infiltrated the organization
- A lot of perceived racism is really classism (yes its bad but its not the same)
- Racism is a really bad perversion
- Chris Anderson seems to be conceding effectively a heckler’s veto or a crybaby’s veto against ideas they disagree with just because they can claim being hurt or subject to violence from words. You can’t have a marketplace of ideas with this dynamic
- Codding of the American Mind is a relevant read
- Just because ideas are offensive doesn’t mean they are worth spreading
- Losing Ground by Charles Murray is also a relevant read
- Welfare auditors used to come in the 60s/70s and women used to hide their boyfriends, hide their husbands
- Black Power is a relevant read
- Seems Democratic elite are intellectually captured and not reflective of their own folks and voters
- Hoping this is a learning experience for TED
- Could also consider Brian Armstrong approach at Coinbase
- Canadian parliament gives standing ovation to a Nazi
- Have apologized for this since
- Trudeau’s father was exemplary
- Trudeau is woke enforcer in chief
- Called truckers nazis
- Called out India - largest democracy in the world - for a purported assassination
- India rebutted with apparent evidence of drugs
- And now this nazi fiasco
- Shows lack of leadership and competence
- Speaker Anthony Rota who invited the speaker resigned
- George Orwell - he who controls the present controls the past and he who controls the past controls the future
- Woke mind virus almost requires the whitewashing of the past so they can move forward
- The present need to support the current thing overrides any examination of the past
- Ukraine has a history of nazi sympathizers having outsized influence in their government/nationalism/military (azov battalion, stepan bandera, svoboda party with nazi-style symbols, etc)
- Has been covered over the years in western media too like the New York Times, etc even
- Even Zelenskyy and Trudeau who were in the audience and cheering should have known better
- Politics makes for strange bedfellows - have to acknowledge how many folks like US State Department, Ukrainian oligarchs, Ukrainian leaders are finding common cause with problematic parties just for convenience
- Canada has a weird history of bringing in pro-Nazi people after WW2
- Wokeness makes people stupid
- OpenAI and Jony Ive in talks to raise $1B from SoftBank to apparently create iPhone of ChatGPT/AI
- OpenAI also raising more money for ~$90B valuation apparently
- Sam is the closest thing we have to an emergent mogul in tech
- Sam is maybe aiming for being the world’s first trillionaire
- AI advancements
- ChatGPT does multi-modal
- Google does deeper AI integration
- LLMs are emerging as a new kind of Operating System
- LLMs are now being explored for use in Autonomous Driving
- You could have a phone that uses LLMs to render live apps with visuals, audio, etc
- Similar vision to Magic Link (Sony) and General Magic (check out the movie)
- Similar to Her movie
- Sam Altman has apparently invested in a journaling technology - like you wear a necklace that records everything (a wearable)
- Apparently AirPod feature reads your messages, etc
- Facebook new AR glasses
- Reflect note taking app (has backlinks)
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