Nicole Shanahan
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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And so I believe that it is truly in the best interest of these universities because they're going to shoot themselves in the foot when these individuals go out into the world and they've basically been taught that they can fail up. And they're going to be required to compete again in the market. And those individuals are not good donors to the universities down the road.
So it's really, really, I think, in everyone's best interest, just going back to basic economics, like we need competition. We need real competition. And policies that weaken our institutions, it's cannibalistic. They're cannibalizing their own reputations.
Yeah. Yeah. It's misguided and it's misdirected. It's oddly destructive, self-destructive. And we're up against it, but I think that these individuals also know that it's not producing the kind of academic rigor that their predecessors trained them into. And so... And I understand that there's, again, you have to realize that there's outside influences for this, just blatant Marxist influences.
And it's deeply, deeply misguided. I oftentimes ask people, I'm like, well, what is it going to take to realize that our American system of merit and egalitarianism is at stake, is it going to take your house burning down, right? Like, you know, because that's happening, right? People's homes are literally burning down because of these policies. And for many, that has been the case.
Is it going to take your grandmother getting robbed on the streets of San Francisco to wake up? I'll tell you, amongst the Asian community, that has been the case and they have woken up. If you they have many of the, you know, California's home to a diversity of Asian-Americans and and they're sick and tired of this as well.
Yeah. Look, it's like the homes. I was raised in a home with a Chinese mother and, you know, it is all about working hard. It is all about going to work and doing a good job and earning your way and realizing it's not always fair. And sometimes you'll be looked over for a promotion, but that doesn't mean that you try to burn the place down.
It means that you have to work harder and find good mentors and learn how to work within a community of people all from different backgrounds.
um and and to really deliver value um for your organization and and for the people that you serve if you're in a client-based industry it's showing up and making sure your clients are happy i mean some of these dei policies i've seen have encouraged people to turn on their own clients to turn on their patients and say well it's their fault they don't know what they're talking about
And it creates the spoiled entitlement that, you know, the people that I grew up with, you know, the people who said work hard and you can overcome poverty. None of us recognize this new world of race based entitlement. It's very, very bizarre.
Fair. I... Again, I would love someone to do a great job in their role. I wish that she was successful. I wish that we didn't have to have this conversation. I wish that DEI policies weren't such a massive failure for the public.
um i am a classic liberal who you know loves to see diversity in the state of california but it has to be around egalitarian merit and that is not what's happened here our controller who manages the finances of our state she ran on dei and that was pretty much her biggest platform You cannot make that your biggest platform when you are running for these roles. I'm sorry, it is inappropriate.
It is not what makes you qualified for these roles. What makes you qualified for these roles is your understanding of how to execute very, very well. And in the case of L.A. and the fires, we needed... reservoir full. We needed the departments well-funded. We needed the fleets of vehicles properly maintained. And that wasn't happening.
And again, the problem with DEI, why DEI failed was because they treated it as ceremonial. Um, it, it's very misguided. And if you hear the talk in these communities, it's very much, you know, the whites had their time. Now it's time for us.
And they treat it as it's, as if it's the ceremonial passing, um, from, of the guard, the, from, from one group of ethnicities to another group of ethnicities, but that is wrong. That is not how you govern. I'm sorry. And, um,
It really, really doesn't work. And, you know, the idea of diversity is wonderful, but it can't be racist. And so, you know, again, they're conflating two terms, diversity and the function of racism. And so it's problematic. We need to go back to common sense. Common sense requires us to look at an individual for their work and their actions and that alone and not for their skin color.
Yeah, so I'm a early AI developer. I started developing AI over 10 years ago, sold an AI business in 2020, have been involved actively at Stanford Law on issues around AI, AI governance, human alignment of AI. And there's a few arms races happening right now. Yes, there is the national arms race, but there's also a race within the United States happening right now.
And I, along with many others, were very curious, watching with great interest what went on in yesterday's conference for Stargate AI. Because the arms race that's happening in the United States is between a few groups. Most notably, there's the Elon Musk AI team, and then there's a Sam Altman AI team. And if you look at the history between Elon and Sam, they were once-
And then had a major fracturing, major fracturing. And when I look at the world of Google and Microsoft and their founders, they're kind of more, you know, there's many, many dots on the board, right? And they're all different. vying for the top position in AI. And of course, the government contractors around AI, that's going to be very, very major.
And so we're watching this all unfold in real time right before our eyes. The thing that had the Maha community up in arms was the comment by Larry Ellison yesterday on using AI to develop a cancer vaccine through the mRNA. Wait, let me just play that. I have that, Nicole.
People heard that and they were really up in arms, especially folks who understand that what we need for the mRNA platform right now is a moratorium. It's not ready for human use. Many people will explain why. One of the major reasons is that it delivers an inconsistent result in individuals. So you could be deploying the mRNA as it was. I think it was 700 million Americans received it.
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