David Sacks
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
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scam bank run fraud, did what he did with FTX and got sent to jail.
He was like a big effective altruist and he had made pandemics like their big cause.
They needed a new cause and they got behind this idea of X risk, which is existential risk.
The idea being if there's like a 1% chance of AI ending the world, then we should drop everything and just focus on that because you do the expected value calculation.
And so if it ends humanity, then that's the only thing you should focus on, even if it's
you know, a very small percentage chance.
But they really, like, reorganized behind this with all of it.
And, you know, they've got quite a few advocates.
And actually, it's an amazing story about how much influence they were able to achieve largely behind the scenes or in the shadows during the Biden years.
They basically convinced all of the major Biden staffers of this view, of this, like, imminent superintelligence is coming.
We should be really afraid of it.
We need to consolidate control over it.
There should only be, you know, ideally two or three companies that have it.
We don't want anyone in the rest of the world to get it.
And then, you know, what they said is, you know, once we make sure that there's only two or three American companies, we'll solve the coordination problems.
That's what they consider to be, you know, the free market.
We'll solve those coordination problems behind those companies and we'll be able to control this whole thing and prevent the genie from escaping the bottle.
I think it was like this totally paranoid idea
version of what would happen and it's already being it's already in the process of being refuted but this this vision is fundamentally what animated the biden executive order on ai it's what animated the biden diffusion rule and mark i mean you've talked about how you were in a meeting with biden folks and they were going to basically ban open source and they were going to they're basically going to anoint two or three winners and that was it um
I mean, literally the minute the Biden administration was over, all the top Biden AI employees went to go work at Anthropic, which tells you who they were working with during the Biden years.
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