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All In Podcast Episode 224 Recap and Notes April 18 2025

April 18 2025


  • Last episode reached #4 in the world
  • Friedberg won latest jeopardy round
  • Tim Dillon joins the show
  • Nvidia H20 export controls

    • Export controls vs tariffs

    • Some of this dates back to 2019 Trump administration with lithography controls

    • Biden administration added more chips to the controls

    • So Nvidia worked on a different chip that would be compliant

    • These measures might make China beat US in AI (Gavin Baker and Bill Gurley, etc)

    • China has already demonstrated they can build advanced chips (like those used in Huawei, etc)

    • How much is China getting from other regions?

    • Is this similar to the case of some TSMC chip that showed up in a Huawei AI processor?

  • Trump vs Harvard

    • Administration targeting policies and Harvard funding

    • Harvard is now getting a reputation that they discriminate in their admissions

    • What is the point of providing tax benefits to these private universities when they are openly ideological?

    • Harvard has $53.2B endowment (maybe making $4B in income every year through just investments in the endowment?)

    • Taking a step back - what is the point of US government giving research grants and tax exempt status to these universities?

    • Government needs to clarify what laws are being broken

    • Majority of the capital in these universities seems to NOT be used to educate students but to generate more capital

    • Bob Jones university decades ago lost case to IRS in Supreme Court that they can’t have racially discriminatory policies for federal funding

    • More than 80% of Harvard faculty identifies as liberal

    • Harvard can also lose its funding but continue to operate the way they are just like Bob Jones university

    • Are these universities being dependent on Federal dollars making them more entitled?

    • China has almost caught up with the US on core fundamental science research over the last 2 decades

    • NIH data - insane administrative overhead in this data

    • Maybe the administration has a fair point - need to stop the malaise of discrimination and make a point

    • Chamath anecdote about his friend who could have joined the Fed being asked to play up his Indian ness and how he refused

    • Universities are becoming consensus forming institutions among the richest most powerful folks in the country

  • 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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