All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

(0:00) Eric Weinstein joins the show!
(03:09) Has American science stalled? Cowboy science, Fauci, and the scientific precariat
(21:31) Weinstein's fix: Blow a hole in the Civil Rights Act, kill peer review, fund people not ideas
(41:36) Ed Witten drove physics off a cliff, and is Renaissance Technologies a secret Los Alamos?
(52:49) Boom, Vroom, Zoom: Did stagnant physics save the human species?
(01:07:11) UAPs, multi-temporal adversaries, and Einstein's prison
(01:16:12) China poaches our best scientists, AI reads the trash can corpus
 
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(0:00) Michael Kratsios joins the show!
(01:56) Is this administration anti-science? The Nature poll, DEI grants, and $8B down the drain 
(8:16) Climate science cuts: RCP 8.5 gets pulled and the "climate emergency" narrative collapses
(13:45) $47B at NIH, Eroom's Law, and golden tickets: has American science stagnated? 
(22:24) Big bold bets: Genesis Mission, quantum by 2028, fusion by 2035, boots on the moon in '28 
(34:04) The great race with China: $33B to $670B, and 7 out of 10 STEM PhDs aren't American 
(44:09) Fauci did more damage to science than anyone in modern history, and NIH's median researcher is 71



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(00:00) Besties are back!
(00:13) Dario's two-part essay: regulatory capture, doomerism, and the data center backlash
(10:25) FINRA for AI vs. MPAA for AI: SROs, thinking tokens, and the "DMV for AI"
(30:12) Is an open source ban coming? Harnesses, FDI, jobs, and recursive self-improvement
(56:33) a16z under DOJ investigation over "interlocking directorates"
(1:01:15) Midterms: broken polls, the socialism surge, and CATO's DSA price tag
 
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(0:00) The most controversial company in privacy right now, Flock CEO joins the show!
(7:23) License plate data retention: 7 days solves 90% of crimes
(13:00) Camera vandalism, felony charges, and privacy concerns
(18:15) Dirty cops exposed: Flock's audit tool got 9 Georgia officers fired
(28:25) AI, drones, facial recognition, and avoiding predictive policing
(39:43) Safety is a privilege and who actually needs Flock
(45:36) Flock's PR crisis: internal morale, churn, and 20 cities turning the cameras back on
 
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(0:00) Gavin Baker joins the show!
(2:36) Anthropic IPO report: $2T valuation, $100B+ run rate, October listing
(27:32) Zuck's AI manifesto: What it means for Meta and frontier AI
(56:41) All-In Summit Speaker Announcements!
(58:13) Nvidia's $500B financing plan, how the AI market could fall apart
(1:14:29) NJ and Mamdani take on Amazon over subcontracted drivers
(1:27:32) Grok 4.6 launch: SpaceX's high-ceiling, high-floor AI strategy
(1:35:21) Workday in talks to be acquired by Silver Lake for ~$43B
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