December 1 2023
- Tucker joins the Pod!
- Not sure why he was fired from Fox News
- Doesn’t remember ever being told to not cover something against a particular company, etc
- Acknowledges it was their company and they had the right to do that
- Doesn’t really feel he has anything to complain about regarding his experience there - he felt like he had a lot of freedom
- Views on state of American society
- Doesn’t regard it as a real democracy
- Feels a small class of people have disproportionate influence on society
- conversations become more inane as the problems get bigger
- From personal experience can see that society is focusing on small problems that it thinks it can control instead of the real issues
- Priorities for America
- National cohesion - can we all agree on what does it mean to be an American?
- Thinks too much change too fast is not healthy for society
- Some people can deal with it but most people can’t
- Admires how China resists change due to this philosophy
- That’s why society doesn’t like technology because tech makes inequalities and change fast
- There is a lot of power dynamics where everyone wants what someone else has
- Too much emphasis on our immutable differences
- Deng Xiaoping did the opposite in China - did a hot swap of the backend to capitalism (it doesn’t matter if the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice)
- Now we are hot swapping the backend in America to communism
- Feels there is something about affluence that makes people kill themselves, etc
- Ex: GDP correlation with diabetes and heart disease
- And how with affluence people stop having children
- Try fasting for 3 days - why does every culture
- Thinks too much change too fast is not healthy for society
- National cohesion - can we all agree on what does it mean to be an American?
- Climate Change
- Doubtful of the political narratives but agrees temperatures are going up
- Not sure how much driving an F150 has to do with it
- Feels rich people have a destructive streak
- Immigration
- Favors immigration that helps the country
- Feels illegal immigration is out of control right now
- Current political landscape
- Thinks Biden won’t run - his only point was to ward off Bernie Sanders and has outlived his usefulness
- Doesn’t think Nikki Haley is a viable candidate - disagrees with Jamie Dimon
- In a functioning democracy a viable candidate would reflect the views of the people which doesn’t seem to be the case
- She seems to be a Bush republican
- Likes Vivek but not sure why he isn’t doing well - admits he might be out of touch himself
- RFK Jr is good
- Trump might be the nominee - Jonathan Swan from NYT himself says that Presidential front runner became nominee during August 2022 when FBI raided his personal records
- Thinks Gavin Newsom will be nominee
- Believes he has the ability to lie to your face convincingly
- Doesn’t think CA is democratic
- Thinks political machine is too strong for people’s opinions to matter
- Media Control
- Ukraine
- David Arakhamia who was lead negotiator from Zelenskyy testified that there was a peace deal negotiated in ~March 2022 but Boris Johnson came and told them to keep fighting
- Feels X needs to be preserved - its the 1 big free speech platform in the world
- Ukraine
- Fiscal condition is dire
- Debrief
- Good points about virtue signalling
- Interesting that he wants to psychoanalyze American society
- The more successful that people get, the more self-loathing there is
- A lot of human happiness comes from progress
- Buying second or third house - diminishing returns are a lot
- Tucker is a very influential populist on the right
- OpenAI story
- Employees did what was in their best interest which makes sense - that without a good business leader their $86B valuation/secondary was in jeopardy
- This story isn’t over
- Apparently Sam went on a real estate shopping spree
- Paul Graham is right about Sam’s ability to be a ruthless operator
- Board is probably incompetent
- Stories will come out
- Velvet glove, iron first approach
- The board’s structure didn’t work
- This episode proves that solving the alignment problem by using this non-profit structure of the board doesn’t work
- Investors who didn’t have board seats were angry seeing their investment going up in smoke
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