Nathan Grayson

I mean, broadly speaking, with anything involving Saudi Arabia, you kind of hate to see it. In part because, like, you know, Saudi Arabia is a place accused of numerous human rights abuses.

I mean, broadly speaking, with anything involving Saudi Arabia, you kind of hate to see it. In part because, like, you know, Saudi Arabia is a place accused of numerous human rights abuses.

And all of this, in conjunction with everything else that their wealth fund has been doing, a lot of sports initiatives and boxing, MMA, I think even other sports that I don't follow as closely, are all, you know, an attempt to rehabilitate its image while not necessarily changing much of how it actually operates and, you know, the values that it holds.

And all of this, in conjunction with everything else that their wealth fund has been doing, a lot of sports initiatives and boxing, MMA, I think even other sports that I don't follow as closely, are all, you know, an attempt to rehabilitate its image while not necessarily changing much of how it actually operates and, you know, the values that it holds.

and so this is just another part of that like i mean they've been trying to get into games and esports for a minute they have the esports world cup which has not been very successful in terms of viewership but they've definitely put a lot of money into it um and so yeah i mean something as big as pokemon go like i don't think that you want to see that particular country be in charge of it um but you know money talks unfortunately especially like in our current hyper capitalistic setting like

and so this is just another part of that like i mean they've been trying to get into games and esports for a minute they have the esports world cup which has not been very successful in terms of viewership but they've definitely put a lot of money into it um and so yeah i mean something as big as pokemon go like i don't think that you want to see that particular country be in charge of it um but you know money talks unfortunately especially like in our current hyper capitalistic setting like

And I was thinking about it last night, actually, like what the Saudi Arabian government has done is kind of, you know, to borrow the title of their development studio, savvy. Like it worked really well in boxing to the point where when they first started bankrolling all of these really big fights, like a lot of articles talked about it. They were like, you know, Saudi Arabia is doing this.

And I was thinking about it last night, actually, like what the Saudi Arabian government has done is kind of, you know, to borrow the title of their development studio, savvy. Like it worked really well in boxing to the point where when they first started bankrolling all of these really big fights, like a lot of articles talked about it. They were like, you know, Saudi Arabia is doing this.

The reason why is clear. They're doing it in order to, again, kind of, you know,

The reason why is clear. They're doing it in order to, again, kind of, you know,

distract or sports wash away from these human rights abuses and like we should be skeptical of this now years down the line it's just accepted everyone's like yep saudi arabia's doing it cool we can we get another big fight um amazing wonderful and like that's how it works they just keep doing it until it's normalized and then people just turn a blind eye like and i i imagine this will just be more of that

distract or sports wash away from these human rights abuses and like we should be skeptical of this now years down the line it's just accepted everyone's like yep saudi arabia's doing it cool we can we get another big fight um amazing wonderful and like that's how it works they just keep doing it until it's normalized and then people just turn a blind eye like and i i imagine this will just be more of that

It's a fun little art project. Yeah, exactly.

It's a fun little art project. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, speaking of the data stuff, just a couple headlines from the past handful of months. Pokemon Go players have unwittingly trained AI to navigate the world. And, let's see, Pokemon Go data adding amplitude to war is obviously an issue, Niantic executive says. Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah, that's not amazing. The AI just wants to know what the world looks like.

Yeah, speaking of the data stuff, just a couple headlines from the past handful of months. Pokemon Go players have unwittingly trained AI to navigate the world. And, let's see, Pokemon Go data adding amplitude to war is obviously an issue, Niantic executive says. Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah, that's not amazing. The AI just wants to know what the world looks like.

Yeah, no militaries or governments would ever use that data. That would be crazy.

Yeah, no militaries or governments would ever use that data. That would be crazy.

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