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And we're in a different universe where we have a sense, what does that physics look like today? If we progress physics, help an audience that's a generalist audience understand a little bit about what it means that if physics didn't stall out. And before I do that, let me just ask this question. Some would argue that physics has played an important role, and maybe it's not fundamental, and you could, that might be your answer here, in advancing things like semiconductor manufacturing technology, advanced lithography, material science. We've, we've made tremendous progress in our capacity to drive compute, and that's led to this moment today where we have these tools that we call AI, right? And all of the underlying advancements in chemistry, material science, physics got us to this moment today. Yeah. And that we have made progress and it has been applied. And that would be one argument. And so maybe tell me why that, that kind of misses the point. And then we can talk a little bit about kind of what would the world look like today if we didn't go off track in 1983, '84?
David Friedberg — All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Eric Weinstein: The Scientific Precariat, China's Brain Drain, Physics Stagnation, String Theory's Collapse & UAPs · 2026-08-26So I spent 2 years indoors being hounded to be vaccinated because of 4 amino acids being spliced into spike protein of coronavirus. Now, my guess is that that's pretty easy, right? Think about it. You need 12 nucleotides to code for 4 amino acids at the exact right place in spike protein, and that's enough to shut down Earth. This is high-leverage science. And my claim is, before we decide that what we want is, let's get back to kicking ass and taking names, let us at least pause and say, most people are ignorant of how much power is present with a little bit of scientific knowledge. There's a marvelous scene in Breaking Bad where the protagonist named Heisenberg takes what appears to be crystal meth and throws it in the office of a psychopath named Tuco. And Tuco says, "Well, what the hell was that that caused that massive explosion?" I forget whether it was lead azide or mercury fulminate or one of these extremely volatile compounds. Do you have any idea how easy it is to make black powder? I ask modern audiences, Nobody knows that it's 75% saltpeter, 10% sulfur, and 15% charcoal. The anarchist cookbook has gone out of discussion. The power of science, the leverage of science is so profound that we should at least ask the question, what if you had nuclear weapons that didn't require centrifuges? What if they're easy things to do? That high school students could do. You remember this guy who scavenged the americium in smoke detectors to build a working reactor, and I think it was Brooklyn. Okay. Well, nobody thought, collect 218 smoke detectors and you can have a working nuclear reactor. So my claim is that if you want to think about Walter White as a paradigm, you have to go back to something called the United States versus Progress, the Progressive magazine in which the Teller-Ulam design for the thermonuclear weapon was put forward by a publication. And the government said, no, no, this is restricted data. We need prior injunction. This is the most dangerous piece of geometry. This is Stan Ulam's work. And the whole idea is, is that if you're going to use a fission device, chemical shell compresses subcritical fissile material to create a detonator out of an atomic bomb.
Eric Weinstein — All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Eric Weinstein: The Scientific Precariat, China's Brain Drain, Physics Stagnation, String Theory's Collapse & UAPs · 2026-08-26So if the rate of progress with AI is such that, and the ubiquity of access and The corpus, to your point, of knowledge and non-knowledge, right, is apparent to everyone. The AI can be directed from anywhere, and it's probably a conversation about what does humanity look like? And I think that's a conversation with humanity, not with nation states per se.
David Friedberg — All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Eric Weinstein: The Scientific Precariat, China's Brain Drain, Physics Stagnation, String Theory's Collapse & UAPs · 2026-08-26Claude.ai/fool. Hey everyone, just a quick reminder, if you want to have your question, uh, answered on air, go ahead and email us at podcasts@fool.com. That's podcasts with an S. Uh, also I've put the email in the show description if you need it there. Uh, 3 reminders as always. Number 1, keep it short. 2, keep it foolish. And can't, uh, give any personalized advice, so try to make it some sort of personal— impersonal question related to like stocks or something like that. Today's question comes from Carolus Shimkus. I hope I pronounced that name right. If I didn't, I apologize. This is actually a question kind of related to what we were talking about with, you know, legal settlements and stuff like that. So the question is, hey guys, you've just talked about Uber's potential in autonomous food delivery, but they are faced with, you know, a possible $825 million fine in Europe for GDPR rules violations. Could this stop some of that progress? And how should investors look at these types of fines for hyperscalers that might be faced with something similar in the future? We, you know, we just had this long discussion about Meta at the top and their social media related, uh, sort of infractions with the law and settlements and stuff like that. So it does kind of bring all this together because we have these massive, massive companies seeing massive fines. Is it really going to slow down progress? We kind of said not really at Meta. What about Uber?
Tyler Crowe — Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing · Meta Platforms Settles Major Lawsuit, Pays $18 Billion · 2026-08-26About a year after Trump and Putin sat down in Anchorage last year, not much progress has been made. And part of that is because it was always going to be a long shot. Ukraine and Russia are very far apart on what the terms of a peace would look like. And part of it is because the U.S. The U.S. simply hasn't been focused on it. The U.S. attention has been elsewhere, namely in the Middle East.
Jennifer Welch — Bloomberg News Now · Meta Settlement Over Teen Addiction, Putin to Escalate War, More · 2026-08-26Mandeep Singh with Bloomberg Intelligence. And ahead of the earnings, Nvidia shares are down 1%. Bloomberg exclusively reporting that Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing to escalate attacks on Ukraine after concluding that negotiations for a peace deal have reached a dead end. People close to the Kremlin say the escalating spiral of strikes is leading a growing number of Russian officials to the conclusion that Putin could eventually opt to use tactical nuclear weapons as a last resort in Ukraine. Iran's military says it has reached a revenue-sharing agreement with Oman over the Strait of Hormuz. Iran claims the U.S. is obstructing the process, causing progress to be delayed. Iranian officials have repeatedly warned that a deal with Oman on the strait's navigation would not equate to an immediate reopening of the waterway. Bloomberg's Dana Chrisch has more from Dubai.
Matt Piper — Bloomberg News Now · Meta Reaches Billion Dollar Settlement, Wall St Awaits Nvidia, More · 2026-08-26It's very interesting. And it also is logical. It's a logical progression of how people would behave. Given the fact that now all of a sudden they have resources that they've accumulated, they have a very specific location, they have to defend that location. That's when people figure out walls, and that's a bigger, you know, whatever. The weird thing is the Great Wall of China, like, the arrow turrets are facing the wrong way. Really? Yeah. Yeah, a lot of it, a lot of the Great Wall, the arrows are facing inward. To try and keep people in rather than out? Or try to keep people from China escaping, going to wherever, whatever's on the other side. It might have been some sections of it weren't constructed by the people that we think constructed it. You never seen that? No, I've never seen that. Very weird. Like, people pondered, like, why do the arrow— because there's these slots where they can be protected but shoot arrows through, but they're facing towards China. Yeah, they're not like China defending the wall against the Huns. It's weird.
Joe Rogan — The Joe Rogan Experience · #2546 - Michael Button · 2026-08-26Meta Chief Legal Officer CJ Mahoney. Meta says it will accrue about $10 billion in legal expenses in the third quarter over the settlement. Meta stock right now is up about 1%. Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing to escalate attacks on Ukraine after concluding that negotiations for a peace deal have reached a dead end. Moscow is weighing an intensification of powerful conventional ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv and infrastructure targets in other Ukrainian cities. People close to the Kremlin say the escalating spiral of strikes is leading a growing number of Russian officials to the conclusion that Putin could eventually opt to use tactical nuclear weapons as a last resort in Ukraine. Iran's military says it's reached a revenue-sharing agreement with Oman over the Strait of Hormuz. Iran claims the U.S. is obstructing the process, causing progress to be delayed. Iranian officials have repeatedly warned that a deal with Oman on the strait's navigation would not equate to an immediate reopening of the waterway that served as a conduit for a fifth of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas before the war. Bloomberg's Dana Kreisch has more from Dubai.
Matt Piper — Bloomberg News Now · Meta Reaches Settlement with States, Putin to Escalate War, More · 2026-08-26