David Sacks

But also, I think that some of it is to...

create a regulatory backlash that they can then control, create a licensing scheme or permissioning scheme.

And that's a big part of it too.

And then I think you just have the fact that in our media environment, the scare stories are the ones that get a lot more attention than the heartwarming stories.

If it

If it bleeds, it leads type thing.

So you can just see how unpopular it is for all of these reasons.

But you understand, like, if you're, say, a professional association that sees it as your job to protect your industry from disruption, you might actually want to spread FUD about AI in order to then seek those protections through your state legislature.

And that is what he's pushing.

And actually, that brings me to another point, which is, if you look closely at Bernie Sanders messaging, one of the talking points he used was literally verbatim from Future of Life Institute.

I think it was something about how AI is less regulated than a sandwich shop, which is just not true.

But Future of Life is one of these EA-funded Doomer think tanks, and they've got something like a billion dollars.

Vitalik Buterin donated $600 million of dog coins to... Anyway, you guys, I mean, this is one really weird sort of quirk about our media environment is we have these EA-funded think tanks with literally billions of dollars.

You know, it's guys like Dustin Moskovitz and...

But hold on, let me just finish my point because you've got these, let's call them Doomer think tanks funded by these EA billionaires.

They have literally billions of dollars.

You can influence a lot of public discourse.

with that a lot.

And they are behind a lot of the NIMBY stuff around data centers.

They've been spreading a lot of the FUD around data centers, increasing your electricity prices, which again, I think is a solved problem now because the users, the AI companies have agreed to pay for the incremental costs