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All In Podcast Episode 157 Recap and Notes December 15 2023

December 15 2023


  • Bestie mullet
  • Friedberg Holiday Party
  • Epic Games vs Google
    • Google App Store $50B/year revenue
    • Apple App Store $85B/year revenue
    • Google apparently did sweetheart deals with other developers
    • Epic didn’t press for damages
    • Google apparently deleted employee chat logs that were relevant
    • Epic went after them direct because Google would win in anti-trust court
  • OpenAI deal with Alex Springer
    • AI models being sued for using copyright material
    • Deal isn’t about fair use and training - its able to access data behind a paywall
  • FCC vs Starlink
    • Brendan Carr dissented
    • Sitting member of the FCC is telling the public about this political harassment - unprecedented
    • FCC is pre-emptively judging the service 3 years ahead
    • Nixon was attacked for having an enemies list
    • This country is engaging in political harassment
    • Look at actions
    • Biden says something like “we need to look into this guy”
    • Elon wasn’t invited to the EV summit
    • Biden is a union guy and won’t support a non-union guy
    • Sued him for glass house
    • Sued SpaceX, which is a defense contractor for not hiring enough refugees
    • Its probably because Elon bought Twitter and exposed the Twitter Files
    • NYTimes headline omits Hunter Biden quote when he’s talking about his father’s involvement
      • They took out the key word: “financially”
      • They bury their corrections - was posted at the bottom of the article
    • When Biden was asked how, he said there’s a lot of ways
    • IRS also is ending full tax credit for Tesla Dec 31
    • Putting thumb on the scale against Elon for competitors making inferior products
    • Subsidies are going to companies making inferior products
    • Regulatory pressure against Tesla for recall about OTA for auto pilot
      • Articles are mis-stating the OTA to say its a recall
    • So its death by a thousand cuts
  • Alex Jones reinstated on X
    • Misinformation vs Religion
    • Censorship is a very tempting power - like the one ring
  • Taleb concedes Sacks was right on Ukraine vs Russia
    • Amazing that people will admit they are wrong on Twitter - really strong intellectual honesty
    • Don’t trust the media to tell you who are the experts - just look at the track record of the people who say something
  • Bestie Q&A
    • Harvard board decision to stay with President
      • Bill Ackman is taking on DEI - this was not allowed previously
    • Hiring kids out of school
      • Encourage coop programs
      • Smarts, horse power, skills, motivation

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