Eric Topol

And now, of course, I'm worried that we're seeing emigration rather than more immigration of this talent.

Any thoughts about that?

Yeah.

I mean, one of the things, as you've probably noted, is there's these new

uh, forces that are taking on big children.

A lot of the, uh, in fact, Patrick Collison with arc Institute and, uh, Shannon Zuckerberg for their Institute and others like that, where, uh, like the work you're doing with emergent ventures, you're, you're supporting,

important projects, talents.

And if this whole freefall in NIH funding and other agency funding continues, it looks like we may have to rely more on that, especially if we're going to attract some talent from outside.

I don't know how else we're going to make... You're absolutely right about how we are such a great destination and great collaborations and mentors and all of that history.

But I'm worried that it could be in kind of a threatened mode, if you will.

Yeah, I'm glad you brought up that effect in ARC Institute because we both know Patrick Hsu, who's a brilliant young guy who works there and has published some incredible life science models, large language models applied to life science in recent months.

And it is impressive how they used AI and as almost a singular way as compared to, as you said, many other leading institutions.

So that is, I think, a really important thing to emphasize.

Yeah, I totally agree with you.

It's always been a philosophy of mine to get stuff done, get shit done, whatever you want to call it, and they're getting it done.

And that's what's so impressive.

It's not just that they've got some new funds available, but rather they're executing in a way that's parallel to the way the world's evolving today.

in the AI front, which is, I think, faster than most people would ever have expected, anticipated.

Now, that gets me to a post you had on Marginal Revolution just last week, which one of the things I love about Marginal Revolution is you don't have to read a whole lot of stuff.

You just, you know, give the bullets, the key, the juice, if you will.