Stephen Balaban

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657 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard May 2025 last heard 31 Aug

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TBPN · WE'RE BACK, Meta Addiction, Tim Cook's Last Day | Jordan Schneider, Robert Mendelsohn & Eric Olszewski, Billy Thalheimer, Aaron Cannon, Stephen Balaban · 31 Aug 2026 podcast

And so I think it would be a real tragedy to have anything that was gonna end up pushing folks and and and and I I I really I really support building this stuff here in the US.

So so um I I you know there's there's the soft one and then there's the hard one.

The soft one is sort of how important is it to have values uh models that have values that align with American values and how patriotic is your model?

I want patriotic models.

And the second one is the hard one, which is

What happens when they cut it off?

Yeah, that's what I'm worried about.

And we all experienced this when Fable went away for a little bit.

If you remember.

Do you remember that?

And I remember I called some people up, I said, Wow, this is what it feels like to have sort of the equivalent of electricity cut off when you had the intelligence cut cut off from Fable

and I was vibe coding something at the time.

I said, wow, this is what it feels like.

I had to go back to Opus.

And it felt like a huge step back.

And I felt I thought to myself immediately.

This is as much of a strategic asset as our grid is.

Yeah.

No, no.

So but this is the interesting thing.

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