Ben Horowitz

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3,643 appearances 14 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2024 last heard 15 Jan

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The Ben & Marc Show · New AI Policy Update on Safety, Censorship & Unexpected Risks · 6 Nov 2024 podcast

Yeah, that's right. podcast-host

Well, but the the nature of the vice I think is important because it's not podcast-host

A policy vice, right? podcast-host

It's a or a legal vice. podcast-host

It's podcast-host

essentially an extra legal akin to fascism, where the government puts pressure on the company to do the government's bidding. podcast-host

And so podcast-host

But you know, I think in the podcast-host

You know, it's kind of the fascist equivalent to Pravda, in that it's like, okay, I'm running the country. podcast-host

I'm gonna decide what the population can say. podcast-host

I can't. podcast-host

nationalize the social media companies, but I can make them do what I want. podcast-host

And you know, that's the form of it. podcast-host

So it hasn't but they Congress did not pass a law. podcast-host

The there was no executive order, there was no policy, there was no nothing. podcast-host

There was just phone calls and letters and threats, you know, from uh, you know, from various kind of people in the government, you know, ranging podcast-host

Yeah, there were there were some from Congress, there were some from the White House, uh, et cetera, et cetera. podcast-host

So I think, you know, for me, that's the worst form of policy. podcast-host

Like, look, if you if we want to pass a law and we, you know, elect our officials and they all agree and they go, okay, this is gonna be the way it is for all these companies, right? podcast-host

Um, if because then we can all look at it and decide, okay, we like that or we don't, and there's some recourse or some accountability. podcast-host

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