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If you can find one. And
struggle to keep it alive for three months. Yeah,
maybe. I mean some some operators I know are actually cycling through multiple trees on the road to Christmas.
Some operators uh yeah. It's like that Chinese proverb. The best day to plant a tree, ten years ago, the best day to the second best day is today, you know, to get started. The best day to get a Christmas tree was ten years ago, the second best day today, no matter when it is. Only ninety-one days away. So get ready. Uh anyway, Metaconnect yesterday. Uh late. Uh he Zuck likes going late. He four PM Pacific. Well because they wanted the roll. Well 'cause he wanted
to roll straight from the keynote into some beer punk.
Oh, that's true. We will get into that. Big hot debate on the timeline over his beer pong strategy. But uh really, really tight keynote, very well organized, uh very clear, didn't overstay its welcome. Uh did three live demos. Last year there was a hiccup with a live demo Wi-Fi, and I believe Boz triggered everyone's agents by using the wake word. So this time he deliberately stayed away from using that wake word and used like the name of his agent so he didn't cause a b a lot of chaos in the in the dome or in the in the studio, wherever they were. Um But bunch of great announcements, really good pacing, um, really tight one hour keynote and uh it w it was it was fun watching uh Zuck like sort of do the live demos and be like one down.
Like it's just high stakes, like it was clearly high stakes for him. But he got through it all, no mistakes. Yeah, he
had a funny line, he was like and we love live demos here.
Yeah. It's funny 'cause like he totally could just not do live demos, but he like wants to, so he pushes through
it. I think you need to.
Do you?
Think you absolutely need to. People have bought so many random hardware devices that haven't met expectation. Yeah, and I guess there was that hardware if you want people to buy it, you have to do a live demo.
Yeah, there was a there was a demo of a uh Gemini model running like two years ago that was like sped up in post and and and that faced a lot of criticism and so I think yeah just demoing things um as they are available in the real world is v is uh very valuable. And I think in general, like the thesis for the products was like Meet people where they are, delivering tomorrow's technology with today's constraints. And that's just what I kept seeing as a theme, was like, what do people want? And of course the best uh it basically created a huge dichotomy between uh like the the the crazy super intelligence RSI, ASI, P Doom, X-RISC uh crew, and then just like Muse, it's a helpful agent. Uh Uh Niraj Agarwal summed it up well.
Anthropic mar marketing. We o we built a god only we built a god only we can control and gave it a wet lab. Muse marketing. Hey girl, I know you have dozens of unpaid parking tickets. Let's get that cleaned up. And uh it's it's funny because it's it's actually working. I think that if you went back to a couple months ago, um the the the consensus was like popularity of AI is turning, it's deeply unpopular. You need to just be quiet or not lean in or just like apologize, like what a lot of the lab leaders are doing, just being like, yeah, it is bad. I'm sorry. Uh but Meta has taken a very different approach. They're not fear-mongering. They're just like, it's cute, it's lovable. And uh and they actually are successful.
I mean the New York Times yesterday Jensen and Ezra are duking it out over like X-risk and and acceleration. Do we need to slow down?
How do the hosts react to Meta Connect and Mark Zuckerberg’s beer‑pong controversy?
Meanwhile, the New York Times published like a a really positive review of Muse.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the opening intro and sponsor message for the episode?
0:00–4:27
2
How do the hosts react to Meta Connect and Mark Zuckerberg’s beer‑pong controversy?
4:27–8:50
3
What are the main points of the new Meta VR glasses and their potential uses?
8:50–18:26
4
What is the Secure Acceleration report and why is AI security critical?
18:26–1:00:06
5
What new AI prediction‑market agents did Public launch and how do they work?
1:00:06–1:11:21
6
Why did Public decide not to include sports and entertainment contracts in its prediction markets?
1:11:21–1:20:58
7
How is Silco Industries tackling rare‑earth mining and processing in the United States?
1:20:58–1:32:41
8
What are Pioneer Labs’ plans for engineering microbes to build habitats on Mars?
1:32:41–2:02:19
Speakers
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