Derek Thompson

wanted to make sure, wanted to make sure that America wasn't going to intervene in some kind of attack. And they said, we're going to threaten the American government and say, if you intervene, we're going to bring down a system. And Donald Trump says, I'm blustering. I don't believe you. That's not going to happen. And they say, okay, watch this.

And they press the proverbial button and something happens in Portland or Seattle or a pension system in Cleveland. And that's the clear demonstration of, oh, holy shit, They've developed an encryption breaking technology that's powerful enough to at least demonstrate the possibility of doing real harm.

And they press the proverbial button and something happens in Portland or Seattle or a pension system in Cleveland. And that's the clear demonstration of, oh, holy shit, They've developed an encryption breaking technology that's powerful enough to at least demonstrate the possibility of doing real harm.

And they press the proverbial button and something happens in Portland or Seattle or a pension system in Cleveland. And that's the clear demonstration of, oh, holy shit, They've developed an encryption breaking technology that's powerful enough to at least demonstrate the possibility of doing real harm.

Now they've developed a sense of leverage over the American government that has enormous geopolitical implications because now our interests can't be purely expressed in Taiwan. We are in some ways, we're incentivized to cower to China for fear that they're going to do something.

Now they've developed a sense of leverage over the American government that has enormous geopolitical implications because now our interests can't be purely expressed in Taiwan. We are in some ways, we're incentivized to cower to China for fear that they're going to do something.

Now they've developed a sense of leverage over the American government that has enormous geopolitical implications because now our interests can't be purely expressed in Taiwan. We are in some ways, we're incentivized to cower to China for fear that they're going to do something.

This is one reason why not only people in the US government, but also many of the people at the Frontier Labs in San Francisco are so obsessed with holding the technological frontier in AI. It's because if you lose the technological frontier in AI, either on the offensive or defensive side, you do potentially risk losing the ability to uphold American values where they are in American interests.

This is one reason why not only people in the US government, but also many of the people at the Frontier Labs in San Francisco are so obsessed with holding the technological frontier in AI. It's because if you lose the technological frontier in AI, either on the offensive or defensive side, you do potentially risk losing the ability to uphold American values where they are in American interests.

This is one reason why not only people in the US government, but also many of the people at the Frontier Labs in San Francisco are so obsessed with holding the technological frontier in AI. It's because if you lose the technological frontier in AI, either on the offensive or defensive side, you do potentially risk losing the ability to uphold American values where they are in American interests.

Uh, cash? You mean?

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No, I pay everything's my phone. Yeah.

No, I pay everything's my phone. Yeah.

No, I pay everything's my phone. Yeah.

It is unbelievable. So a slight preview. We're doing a series on Plain English that we call Plain History, which is history episodes. And I'm working on one. It's going to be big. I think it's going to be cool on the moon landing. And one of the coolest things about the moon landing There was no internet in the 1960s. How the fuck did they get to the moon in less than a decade without an internet?

It is unbelievable. So a slight preview. We're doing a series on Plain English that we call Plain History, which is history episodes. And I'm working on one. It's going to be big. I think it's going to be cool on the moon landing. And one of the coolest things about the moon landing There was no internet in the 1960s. How the fuck did they get to the moon in less than a decade without an internet?

It is unbelievable. So a slight preview. We're doing a series on Plain English that we call Plain History, which is history episodes. And I'm working on one. It's going to be big. I think it's going to be cool on the moon landing. And one of the coolest things about the moon landing There was no internet in the 1960s. How the fuck did they get to the moon in less than a decade without an internet?

Imagine, let's say, if NASA was hacked by the Chinese Communist Party and NASA was like, we're not going to have any internet for the next decade, but we still want to get a rover to the moon or a rover to Mars. We have to do it. No Excel, no Google Docs, no email. This isn't like an unsolved problem. We literally did it 60 years ago.