The Masks Issue Is the Most Instructive Thing in Modeling

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The masks issue is actually the most instructive thing in this whole debale a. There was pretty obvious data very early on that it wa as a something that had unknown, but pretty useful upside and an absolutely zero deleterious downside. This has everything to do with incentives, and everything to do with your other question as well of why modellers behave the way hat they do all this is about being taken seriously. To be taken seriously, you have to understand the incentives in the game that you're playing....

0:01 Jason & Chamath catch us up on their quarantines
1:20 Chamath intros David Sacks
4:40 David explains what their poker group chat has been like since COVID-19 started, and how Jason, Chamath & himself fall on the optimistic/pessimistic spectrum
6:58 How have the past few months defined David's view on the world, and what is his reaction to the US government's response?
12:22 Did the US health apparatus do its job? How could it improve? Why aren't masks already mandated?
19:33 Culture clash between scientific experts & entrepreneurs, thoughts on Chloroquine as a treatment method
27:00 Are US bureaucrats taking the intelligence of US citizens for granted? How liable is Trump?