Tom Nichols

coolest moments of the cold war was when a when a doctoral student i want to say princeton basically wrote his thesis on how to make a nuclear bomb and the fbi showed up and the guy was like listen these things have been around for like 35 years or not they're not hard to figure out you know by the time i was finishing my teaching career i would tell students remember this is a technology that came out when you know like before people had tvs and airplanes still had propellers

coolest moments of the cold war was when a when a doctoral student i want to say princeton basically wrote his thesis on how to make a nuclear bomb and the fbi showed up and the guy was like listen these things have been around for like 35 years or not they're not hard to figure out you know by the time i was finishing my teaching career i would tell students remember this is a technology that came out when you know like before people had tvs and airplanes still had propellers

So this notion that, oh, yes, well, they just classified. I don't think he knew what he was talking about there. My gut sense of that, you and I kind of talked about this a little this morning, is that I can't believe that anybody's entire position on who should be president rested on one conversation about AI. But maybe that's how he does things.

So this notion that, oh, yes, well, they just classified. I don't think he knew what he was talking about there. My gut sense of that, you and I kind of talked about this a little this morning, is that I can't believe that anybody's entire position on who should be president rested on one conversation about AI. But maybe that's how he does things.

So this notion that, oh, yes, well, they just classified. I don't think he knew what he was talking about there. My gut sense of that, you and I kind of talked about this a little this morning, is that I can't believe that anybody's entire position on who should be president rested on one conversation about AI. But maybe that's how he does things.

But it also struck me that that sounded very much, again, like somebody went down and said, I have many smart things to say about AI. And some government people said, well, we don't agree with all that. And he said, OK, screw you. Yeah. Screw you. And you know who will listen to me? The other moron. Right. The guy who doesn't understand a word of any of this and doesn't care.

But it also struck me that that sounded very much, again, like somebody went down and said, I have many smart things to say about AI. And some government people said, well, we don't agree with all that. And he said, OK, screw you. Yeah. Screw you. And you know who will listen to me? The other moron. Right. The guy who doesn't understand a word of any of this and doesn't care.

But it also struck me that that sounded very much, again, like somebody went down and said, I have many smart things to say about AI. And some government people said, well, we don't agree with all that. And he said, OK, screw you. Yeah. Screw you. And you know who will listen to me? The other moron. Right. The guy who doesn't understand a word of any of this and doesn't care.

He'll treat me because when you said they're looking for attention, the word I replaced in my head was respect.

He'll treat me because when you said they're looking for attention, the word I replaced in my head was respect.

He'll treat me because when you said they're looking for attention, the word I replaced in my head was respect.

Or even unrelated. I mean, I think, again, all these guys have this sense that I am fantastically wealthy, and somehow that hasn't bought me the respect that I crave in all of these areas. And the one place where I can really get it is in the place where expertise and knowledge just don't matter, which is going to be the Trump administration. We're going to have much more where this came from.

Or even unrelated. I mean, I think, again, all these guys have this sense that I am fantastically wealthy, and somehow that hasn't bought me the respect that I crave in all of these areas. And the one place where I can really get it is in the place where expertise and knowledge just don't matter, which is going to be the Trump administration. We're going to have much more where this came from.

Or even unrelated. I mean, I think, again, all these guys have this sense that I am fantastically wealthy, and somehow that hasn't bought me the respect that I crave in all of these areas. And the one place where I can really get it is in the place where expertise and knowledge just don't matter, which is going to be the Trump administration. We're going to have much more where this came from.

These are the guys to be monitoring right now. I can't believe I'm going to quote Bernie Sanders here, but wasn't it Sanders who said something this weekend about never have so few people had so much money and so much influence concentrated in such a small circle.

These are the guys to be monitoring right now. I can't believe I'm going to quote Bernie Sanders here, but wasn't it Sanders who said something this weekend about never have so few people had so much money and so much influence concentrated in such a small circle.

These are the guys to be monitoring right now. I can't believe I'm going to quote Bernie Sanders here, but wasn't it Sanders who said something this weekend about never have so few people had so much money and so much influence concentrated in such a small circle.

You know, I am not a big fan of Bernie Sanders, and he said a few things that I think are kind of kooky, but that was a pretty good summation.

You know, I am not a big fan of Bernie Sanders, and he said a few things that I think are kind of kooky, but that was a pretty good summation.

You know, I am not a big fan of Bernie Sanders, and he said a few things that I think are kind of kooky, but that was a pretty good summation.