April 18 2025
- Last episode reached #4 in the world
- Friedberg won latest jeopardy round
- Tim Dillon joins the show
- Nvidia H20 export controls
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Export controls vs tariffs
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Some of this dates back to 2019 Trump administration with lithography controls
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Biden administration added more chips to the controls
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So Nvidia worked on a different chip that would be compliant
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These measures might make China beat US in AI (Gavin Baker and Bill Gurley, etc)
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China has already demonstrated they can build advanced chips (like those used in Huawei, etc)
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How much is China getting from other regions?
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Is this similar to the case of some TSMC chip that showed up in a Huawei AI processor?
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- Trump vs Harvard
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Administration targeting policies and Harvard funding
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Harvard is now getting a reputation that they discriminate in their admissions
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What is the point of providing tax benefits to these private universities when they are openly ideological?
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Harvard has $53.2B endowment (maybe making $4B in income every year through just investments in the endowment?)
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Taking a step back - what is the point of US government giving research grants and tax exempt status to these universities?
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Government needs to clarify what laws are being broken
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Majority of the capital in these universities seems to NOT be used to educate students but to generate more capital
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Bob Jones university decades ago lost case to IRS in Supreme Court that they can’t have racially discriminatory policies for federal funding
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More than 80% of Harvard faculty identifies as liberal
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Harvard can also lose its funding but continue to operate the way they are just like Bob Jones university
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Are these universities being dependent on Federal dollars making them more entitled?
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China has almost caught up with the US on core fundamental science research over the last 2 decades
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NIH data - insane administrative overhead in this data
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Maybe the administration has a fair point - need to stop the malaise of discrimination and make a point
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Chamath anecdote about his friend who could have joined the Fed being asked to play up his Indian ness and how he refused
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Universities are becoming consensus forming institutions among the richest most powerful folks in the country
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- Hollywood DEI
- Trump has already ended the war in idea/spirit
- Ukraine parliament extends martial law till August
- Friedberg advances in Celebrity Jeopardy
- Mitochondrial Therapy
- Research shows mitochondria can move from cell (good cell) to cell (damaged cell)
- More research shows bone/cartilage regeneration using mitochondrial therapy
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