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He also kind of set these two biblical stories against one another.

One is the famous Tower of Babel, humanity's doomed attempt to build a single city with one language that reached to the heavens.

And he said, he kind of modernized this critique by saying, "...the pretense that a single language, even a digital one, can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance."

And he set this story against another biblical story of Nehemiah, who rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem, not by imposing kind of rigid control, but by basically creating consensus with other residents.

What made you write that one down, Kyle?

So you gave a high five to the teacher, the religious teacher at the high school.

You were like, he's talking my language.

So, Natasha, talk about the Anthropic theme, because when I look at this, when I first looked at this, I was like, oh, wow, this is like...

a forceful intervention by like, probably the one person in the world who has a huge platform, who's not, I mean, he's American, but not living in the US, not really subject to the, you know, whims and financing of the AI behemoths.

And yet, there he was with Anthropic founder, co-founder Christopher Ola.

The New York Times reports, Leo opened his remarks with a special thank you to Mr. Ola, almost as if he were a head of state.

Imagine he had no executives.

I mean, let's go back into the veil of ignorance and imagine a world where the club didn't need to make it.

Now it's been about the future of AI next to a corporate executive.

I don't know.

Natasha, reading through the lines, are you saying the Pope got played?

the pope approved pope stamp of approval on your ai what's been the response by the non-anthropic companies in silicon valley i mean i know the pope is not a very popular figure with some i think peter teal has mused that he may be the antichrist and mark andreason has also trolled him on x um is he now being seen as just a pawn of anthropic by the wider ai industry or are people taking this seriously what's the what's the what's the hot take from from the valley

Religion writ large.

We talked about Anthropic leading the charge with influencer dinners.

I feel like this is the influencer play to end all influencer plays, right?