Caller 10

like a dude who is raised believing that his ideas are good because they're his ideas and that he can kind of jump into any field of human endeavor and make things work better than the people who have been studying and working in that field for their entire lives. And he just starts changing everything based on his whims.

Now, you don't have him staying up until four in the morning on ketamine benders and then tweeting out his ideas for how to change the government. But I guess I'd say that's the one... the one thing that doesn't map onto right now, and I think this almost just goes inherently with the act of crafting fiction, even your bad guys are a lot more sympathetic than our current ones.

Now, you don't have him staying up until four in the morning on ketamine benders and then tweeting out his ideas for how to change the government. But I guess I'd say that's the one... the one thing that doesn't map onto right now, and I think this almost just goes inherently with the act of crafting fiction, even your bad guys are a lot more sympathetic than our current ones.

Now, you don't have him staying up until four in the morning on ketamine benders and then tweeting out his ideas for how to change the government. But I guess I'd say that's the one... the one thing that doesn't map onto right now, and I think this almost just goes inherently with the act of crafting fiction, even your bad guys are a lot more sympathetic than our current ones.

Yeah, which I think is to your credit, but I've enjoyed the degree to which The decisions that are being made that are kind of making this Martian revolution inevitable are the kind of decisions that you make when you've been raised in these sorts of bubbles where you are expected to just sort of be able to run things because like that's the that's the strata that you come from.

Yeah, which I think is to your credit, but I've enjoyed the degree to which The decisions that are being made that are kind of making this Martian revolution inevitable are the kind of decisions that you make when you've been raised in these sorts of bubbles where you are expected to just sort of be able to run things because like that's the that's the strata that you come from.

Yeah, which I think is to your credit, but I've enjoyed the degree to which The decisions that are being made that are kind of making this Martian revolution inevitable are the kind of decisions that you make when you've been raised in these sorts of bubbles where you are expected to just sort of be able to run things because like that's the that's the strata that you come from.

And it maps directly to like what we're seeing right now with these Silicon Valley guys who have spent the last few decades getting impossible amounts of money and having that convince them that they know how to do everything. But it also maps back to like Versailles. I find that compelling.

And it maps directly to like what we're seeing right now with these Silicon Valley guys who have spent the last few decades getting impossible amounts of money and having that convince them that they know how to do everything. But it also maps back to like Versailles. I find that compelling.

And it maps directly to like what we're seeing right now with these Silicon Valley guys who have spent the last few decades getting impossible amounts of money and having that convince them that they know how to do everything. But it also maps back to like Versailles. I find that compelling.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's allowed to be in the same room as all of them.

He's allowed to be in the same room as all of them.

He's allowed to be in the same room as all of them.

No, I mean, yeah, we, we talk about that constantly on, uh, on the show. Like we just did that four-parter on the Zizians that who come out of like the rationalist Bay area tech industry cult, which is both influential that a lot of the people who

No, I mean, yeah, we, we talk about that constantly on, uh, on the show. Like we just did that four-parter on the Zizians that who come out of like the rationalist Bay area tech industry cult, which is both influential that a lot of the people who

No, I mean, yeah, we, we talk about that constantly on, uh, on the show. Like we just did that four-parter on the Zizians that who come out of like the rationalist Bay area tech industry cult, which is both influential that a lot of the people who

wound up working at doge and just to the general tech mindset and it is it's the human embodiment of that idea that like well i know what a code coding's difficult that means i'm smart this must mean i know how to run the schools right this must mean i know how to replace medicare right um and and it's this kind of like reasoning from first principles without ever actually like having to sit face to face with the