talent problem. And this is surprising because we're always told, "Oh, we need to hire the best, the most talented, the most experienced, the whatever it is." But it turns out that it's a bit more complicated than that. In baseball, there actually isn't an upper limit. And that's because there's no way to be selfish in baseball. There's nothing that I could do if we're on the same teamthat would negatively impact you. If it's good for me, it's good for the team. Hm. In basketball, there's only one stat that predicts a player salary. Any guesses? Yeah. The amount of points
choice is being used and they don't want to use the axiom of choice, so they work out the consequences that's- that are possible without the axiom of choice or with weakened bit earlier with Hilbert's program.
money is going to corrupt the people that create ASI? - Bit by bit , by bit , over several years. But you start with once people are determined, "Oh, here's the, here's the world. We're
filed in a certain place in the military archives, which in Germany is in Freiburg, in the south, in a small town, not in Berlin. Because Germany is a bit of a decentralized country. We don't want to put everything into Berlin again like the Nazis did. We try to avoid ourmistakes. So the military archive is in Freiburg, and I went there. And because I had this signature, immediately I got original documents that were all
The only thing I had read about the Austrian school until then had been 'Money and Time', a very good book by Garrison, but, but now that I understand a little bit more about Austrian economics.I know that it was rather poor.
talking about comes from the CEOs building the AI companies. And this is something that that's always caused me a bit of cognitive dissonance, which is I think if you go back to I've got some quotes here from March 2021. Sam Almansaid, and he's the for anyone that doesn't know the CEO co-founder of OpenAI, which is the maker of ChatgBT, AI will probably replace most of the
the decline of religion has started to level off and actually increase a little bit . And now 63% of US adults identify as Christian, which is roughly 160million people. In 2025, Bible sales hit a 21-year high in the United States with
both in its substance, its values, and in its process, Reconstruction is every bit as much a dramatic break, a revolution, as the founding. And it's this second foundingthat gives us our real American values and our sense of who we are now.
where there was what turned out to be, honestly, a a a bit of an overreaction to what is known as psychographic profiling.I was part of that overreaction.
And I think it's really difficult when you don't know what anyone else's experience is like, right? You walk around a little bit feeling kind of insane. Like, I I I feel this sometimes when I plug intowhatever discourse or conversation, and, you know, I write about the internet. I'm not terminally online in
and and talking to them and and and showing up and and listening to their concerns. Do you think that there is a bit of a difference there between the the the civilian leadership of thecountry and the the naval leadership?
Single digits. 10? OK. bit or did you pass it a while ago?
But I do think you have to have a backup plan. bit negative or is a little bit of a downer, and keep on moving on, I think that's how you get to it, because every person who I've spoken to who
about pollinators, water, medicine obviously, but then we regulate floods, disease, which we'll discuss a little bit later, and I think we can all now fully relate to that based off of co the cultural. if some of you guys likehiking, these kinds of things and supporting and we'll we'll actually show you a video of how influential the
uh turned out well for pirate. Um so what inspired you to I mean you talked a bit about your inspiration to become a wildlife veterinarian but also um especially now with your new book tofocus more on teaching children all about wildlife.
about in your book about being an only and the stresses of that truly there, they're really they're very riel. And I must say, my own life kind of prepared me a bit for it because I kind of was lonely. Are alone a lot anyway, as the individual because of the way we moved alot when I was when I was a child. But what I wanted to say in terms of allies ship is the following. The allies
protected. And it seems like it falls in exactly to what you're saying. So I want you for now, to expose a little bit about meritocracy. What does that really mean in the context of education? And beyond that, I want to ask you some things about stem education because Iunderstand you have some interest there as well.
that. I mean, I'm not naive about what this means, but when you describe it in such stark terms, respond for me a bit about the relationship between American exceptionalism. This a bit broad and an empire. We don't use the empire word in the United States, but we do useexceptionalism. Yeah, well, because the American Empire isn't a former empire. The British went around the world, said, let this territories are
bit different-- unless I'm misinformed, which I may be-- that is a little bit different than what my area of focus is.
Bit of tough love.
Bit shallow, I admit it.
Bit of a giveaway in the next one-- understanding the crime drop.
Bit of whisky? Because they say you have the whiskey voice.
bit of nuclear spent fuel nuclear waste that is produced by the nuclear energy industry is collected by the nuclear energy industry is controlled by the
bit different as opposed to you know South Korea kind of made a choice if we're gonna have one plant design we're gonna standardize this and then we're
bit how it came to be, where the optimism come from?
bit ? Money. Exactly. Money is, money is a
bit longer. They have a little bit more loyalty, a little bit more patience, and that extends that runway that I was talking about.
Bit of an open-ended question to kick this off, how did you get to where you are?
Bit of a worry but hanging in there.
bit . Hey, um I saw the first episode and I really loved it. Oh, thanks, man.
bit in there Jose will be in the Outfield Father Time caught him a little bit last year but he also had two freak
bit of History um first I'm going to make a point from history that
bit uh would it be like shell shock I guess or Star Struck um then over the years I've run into colong occasionally
bit of a a a you know political winter if you will um uh what are the other
bit sure there is a mythology which has reinforced this whole hype cycle in AI
bit younger uh the uh they used to say well what what are we going to do when machines can program themselves and in a
bit of of a mashup um I grew up uh in a Portuguese American Family my mother uh
bit Ahad of myself the main point though for our purposes here is that we don't have to design them
bit about autism and ADHD. Jet lag. I just came back from Europe. It sucks. We all know jet lag.
bit of uh oil and salt or mushroom seasoning.
bit of time setting up those questions by suggesting to you that you are part
bit about about the writing and there'll be plenty of time for for questions later but I wanted to put to you a
bit on Ministry of stories sir
bit more of a short-term uh time Horizon but leaving leaving gender well actually let me not leave gender aside for a
bit of background on how this all came to be um about 15 years ago I was
bit more of an investment at the beginning it's much cheaper in the end economically wise it's much more sound
bit . But then I don't want to be a complete punk in a corner getting bullied. But then I'm classy. I've never
bit about the work that you've been doing and then we'll have a a chat sure so I um don't want this to turn into a
bit unusual to a number of other science Sciences in that a lot of the documentation about the natural world