All In Podcast Episode 244 Recap and Notes September 26 2025

 

E244: September 26 2025

• Emirates first class reviews

• H1B issue

  • $100K fee

  • Who is really getting these visas?

    

  • Alternately hold an auction?

  • Chamath, Elon, Sundar, Satya all came on H1B

  • Applications vs quotas

    

  • Salaries

    
    
    

  • OPT program is an alternative - to see how well they do 1-2 years after graduating from MS, PhD

  • $100K over 6-7 years amortized might be worth it for the right talent - alternatively force the companies to pay these people more

  • H2A farm worker program is different - US taxpayer is paying a premium for foreign workers - even though US workers don’t do this job

  • Operation Paperclip in the 40s-60s to get german scientists - might need something like that today - see China reportedly banning DeepSeek engineers from leaving the country

  • Can revive National Interest Waiver conversation

• Tylenol and Autism

  • Insane increase in cases

    

  • Folate receptor issue identified

  • Leucovorin and autism

  • Andrea Lucarelli study

  • Johns Hopkins study

  • Biased media coverage

    

• Jimmy Kimmel returns to ABC

  • He brought the temperature down but didn’t apologize for what he did
  • Random nut theory ignores the larger evidence we have about what caused the assassination in the first place

• AI papers

  • MIT - Teaching LLMs to Plan
    • Train LLMs to do reasoning
  • Germany - Analog in-memory compute attention
    • Can have cheaper, more efficient LLMs at the edge

• YouTube issue with AllIn videos

  • Not shadow banned, marked restricted due to curse words making it into the transcript - bleeping is preferred instead

• Alphabet admitted to censoring videos at the behest of the Biden administration

• CA hate speech bill

  • Fines social networks if CA deems it hate speech
  • At Newsom’s desk to sign
  • SB 771
  • UK is showing the bad direction this could go in
  • Seems no one has learnt from the covid era censorship atrocities