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Alexandr (Alex) Wang

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

And then nobody believes it.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

different temperatures have different conditions you know all that kind of stuff and so um that's plausible theory i mean i think uh i think it's i mean i think both that and what we're talking about before in terms of like consciousness in the afterlife these are like some of the some of the great questions because you just you know we'll probably never know the answers yeah yeah well what were your parents working on a los alamos

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

They were... Are they still working there?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

Yeah, my mom still is working.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

My dad's not working, but my mom's still working.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

And so they were part of the divisions in Los Alamos National Lab that worked on classified work.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

They had clearance.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

My mom still has clearance with the DOE.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

And I actually...

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

remember like when i grew up i just assumed they were working on cool physics research because i was like a kid and i i didn't put two and two together um and so i i remember when i grew up i thought the los alamos national lab like used to be the place where the atomic bomb was built and then

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

uh decades later is just like this like advanced scientific research area where they're doing research into you know all of the you know the frontier of human knowledge and it's just this like great scientific research area and then um and it wasn't until i i it wasn't until i literally got to college where i was talking to a friend about it and it like dawned on me that

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

oh, wait, Los Alamos is probably still mostly weapons research.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

And, oh, that's why you would need a clearance to work stuff in New Mexico.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

And then since I left, they actually restarted

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

They restarted what's called nuclear pit production, but they restarted basically manufacturing the cores of nuclear weapons.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

This must have been like 2018, 2019 in Los Alamos.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

And then I was like, oh, yeah, no, it's...

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

it's mostly a research facility to research new nuclear warheads and new nuclear weapons.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

And so that didn't dawn on me until I was like all the way in college, but yeah.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

So my guess is my parents worked on that, but.