$SPHR Sphere Tape Reports
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Everybody says time travel because they think that time can only be one-dimensional. But imagine, for example, that you put a giant gun on a rail car. The rail car can only move in one dimension. Now somebody puts a giant gun on something like a tank and you go to the Bonneville Salt Flats. Now you can move in two dimensions. Now you put it on an A-10 Warthog and you can move in three. Those are all spatial dimensions. Why do you think there's an arrow of time? It's because you believe time can only be one-dimensional. I don't think time is one-dimensional. And I, if you meet an adversary who has access to multi-time, it's like you're trying to compete with them with an A-10 Warthog and you've got your only gun on a, on a track, except with time rather than with space. If I could sneak up behind you in time, knowing your intent, I mean, this is terrifying stuff to me. And it's also like, I would love to have this over our adversaries. But I don't want to meet anybody who knows how to do this kind of stuff, not on a level playing field. Let me say another one. The solar system is an escape room, and Elon is focused, was focused on Mars. I said that Mars is a red herring. It's a MacGuffin. Tonight he's focused on the moon. He is our only adult, so far as I can tell, crazy and mad as he is. And he uses that to motivate engineers because Mars is barely doable. These are the only rocks that are potentially habitable. It's not enough diversity if we have this much power and these few spheres with which we could put atmospheres. So assume that you could put atmospheres on the Mars and on the moon, and you could get back and forth between them with chemical rockets. You'd have 3 places to screw up. We need tens of thousands, if not millions of places before we figure out how to civilize ourselves. So we have to get out of here. It's too expensive to leave the solar system. So my claim is that in an Einsteinian world, you're never going to. If Einstein is left to be enforced, the speed of light is too brutal.
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 · 2026-08-26This has been a good— for the situation we were in, the Great Financial Crisis, the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, and then the pandemic, which we turned the economy off. Yes, we had to take on a bunch of debt. And was it all useful? Of course not. But it allowed households to repair their balance sheet in a way that probably would've been— people would've never believed you considering what happened. Okay? So I think that's a fair trade-off. Um, Cullen Roche wrote about this. He, he, he, he's also on my team, which makes me feel a little better. I feel like I've learned more from Cullen than anyone on, as far as macro goes. The way that he explains it. Um, he asks, is it time to panic about government bonds? And his point— he put this chart in here that shows, uh, U.S. government public debt— that's government debt— as a percentage of total financial assets, which is interesting because again, a treasury is an asset for someone, right? It's not just debt. Someone's debt is another person's asset. Um, he said they're at the upper end of the range, but still at just 9%. It was 5.5% in 2005. He's basically saying in the last 15 years it's pretty much in the range. So like he said, if you're worried about a debt crisis in 2010 and you're still worried about that debt crisis today, then you'll probably have to keep waiting for that crisis. And I, I am in agreement here. Like the crisis is, is more in political sphere than it is in like, this is like a thing we have to worry about now because it's financial.
Ben Carlson — Animal Spirits Podcast · Are Free Markets Dead? (EP. 479) · 2026-08-26Yeah, of course, with Rubico, of course, the linkage always is on Asia-Pacific to China. Link the different spheres of Southeast Asia and Australia to China, which is the one you focus on most.
Tom Keene — Bloomberg Surveillance · Bessent Intervention and Economic D-Day · 2026-08-25Yeah, it definitely has no rhyme or reason. I think that a lot of this is, if you want me to— God, I guess I kind of am like Scott. I'm a bit of a fatalist in a way, in that the world is rotten and these corporations run most everything. And even if you have a hit show, they're not going to let you go past 3 seasons, maybe 5, because they have to pay you more. And it's easier to just start a new show. For this, I personally would rather see this resolved sooner than later. If the merger does not happen and we are at the same spot next June, I think it gets stripped down and sold for parts piecemeal all over the sphere. But you're still going to be sold into the hands of people that are being counting and cutting corners and trying to do as much as possible with as much less as possible.
Roy Wood Jr. — Pivot · Trump vs. Canada, Paramount Settlement Saga, and Melania's Return · 2026-08-25Ambassador, when did you get your reaction? There's a Politico story that sort of tries to walk through the past 72 hours over the weekend. You may or may not agree with this, but I wanted to get your side of the story. The report says that, quote, the negotiations also exposed friction between Grier and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's respective public policy spheres. While the White House has been adamant officials are in lockstep, two people familiar with the talks said that Lutnick felt that the deal framework hammered out by Grier's trade office was, quote, sprung on his agency despite involving a number of policy issues he oversees. What do you think?
Andrew Ross Sorkin — Squawk Pod · USTR Jamieson Greer & a GPU Lifecycle 8/24/26 · 2026-08-24Um, what do you do when someone brings a claim into the public sphere like that, for which you— that can't be rationally discussed because it can't be falsified? There's no way to prove that it's wrong. Um, what kind of authority does that kind of claim have if you say to people, well, all the scientists say there's no UFOs, but I know because it happened to me, that there is a UFO. How do you respond to that? How can you— how can you say to that person, well, you're wrong about what happened to you, what you think happened to you didn't happen? Um, those are all, uh, questions that go beyond the issue of just UFOs, which ultimately, you know, I think still are in the category of no one really believes it except people who are quite, quite convinced. Um, and then the sort of further question is, well, if there aren't any UFOs, why aren't there? Because that raises a whole other set of cosmological, uh, questions which I get into in the second half of the book.
Adam Kirsch — EconTalk · Are We Alone? Cosmic Loneliness and the Longing to Believe (with Adam Kirsch) · 2026-08-24And just to come back to this question of, uh, this belief, this presumption that, that there's life everywhere, by the way, not just there might be one other sentient creature in the universe, that there must be frequent. You know, it's the law of large numbers. There's, you know, 1 with 22 zeros after it's roughly stars. Uh, many of them will have planets around them, so the denominator is very large. And presumably there's no reason they wouldn't have some kind of life. And we'll come back in a minute, we'll talk about how you might think about what the odds of that are and so on. But the other, of course, uh, it's very much like religion or a hypothesis that cannot be refuted, is if people say, well, why haven't— why haven't they visited us? Or why haven't we found the evidence? The answer is, well, it's far away. Uh, and, and it is far away, which is a fascinating reality as far as we understand science. You know, if lived in, in primitive times, the stars looked like maybe some kind of circle, a sphere that was around the Earth that had points of light. And when we start to realize them, the distances, um, you know, you quote Pascal, "Le silence éternel des espaces infinis m'effraie." So I think I got it right. It's the most pretentious thing I know. Sorry, I had to get it in there. The, the eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me. When people And that was then, that was Pascal, that 1600s maybe. When we think about what we know now, that not only is the universe so vast, not only is every piece of it sort of moving away from any kind of center, that there's a cosmic sense of loneliness and despair. So on the one hand, oh, they're out there, but we just can't communicate with them because they're really far away. Way. But in another sense, if they're that far away, it almost doesn't matter because we're going to be alone. And it's really hard for people to deal with that, which is fascinating in and of itself. So talk about that, because I have my own view on it. I'd love to hear what you have to say.
Russ Roberts — EconTalk · Are We Alone? Cosmic Loneliness and the Longing to Believe (with Adam Kirsch) · 2026-08-24And you talk about the Drake equation, which is an attempt to try to vaguely quantify some of these things. I found this fascinating, you know, the idea that life on Earth probably needed a moon, something like our moon, meaning eventually became roundish, very close to something more sphere-like rather than just some kind of crazy rock, uh, oblong thing. Uh, the idea that plate tectonics might be important to the development of life. Um, it's just these are not, uh, things that, you know, we've thought about, and, and— but people are increasingly thinking about them and realizing that it's a little more complicated than it seemed.
Russ Roberts — EconTalk · Are We Alone? Cosmic Loneliness and the Longing to Believe (with Adam Kirsch) · 2026-08-24