Sam Harris

And

Were those moments essentially gaffes on his part where he basically said we would defend Taiwan even though our official doctrine is, I think, what was it called?

Strategic ambiguity or something like that?

What's the risk of, so we're strangely, and we as I think the entire world is strangely dependent on Taiwanese manufacturing of semiconductors, but if we onshore all of that supply chain and we're no longer dependent on them, can you imagine that we would suddenly decide,

They're not a critical U.S.

interest anymore, and we don't need to have a policy that we're going to come to their rescue?

Or does that then make Japan and South Korea suddenly worried that we're not the ally we claim to be, and then they go nuclear?

There's a fair amount of talk about the coming demographic collapse in China, and that they're really just not going to be what we feared going forward.

I don't know if you have followed the work of Peter Zion or anyone else who's been hitting this topic of late, but

Yeah, yeah.

Although I don't know if that could lead them to do something more reckless rather than less reckless in the meantime.

Right.

Hmm.

So given these background concerns that we have collectively built a doomsday device and it's on, to one degree or another, a hair trigger or many hair triggers or triggers that the integrity of which we can't assess, and now we have this growing concern that

about misinformation and disinformation and cyber attacks and deep fakes.

We have this digital layer of culture that is proving to be a kind of hallucination machine.

How are you thinking about the advent of these new digital problems and, you know, if we throw generative AI and AI control of our actual nuclear infrastructure ultimately, how are you thinking about recent developments in tech against what we've, in light of everything we've just talked about?

Yeah, it is.

Except if you imagine that you have AI that you are wise to trust, right?

Because again, we're talking about situations where you don't have a lot of time, right?