Show Notes:
0:00 Intro & Dog update
5:48 COVID, Vaccine mandates, public vs. private policy
26:26 Collectivism, comparison to cigarettes, Sacks' latest podcast beef
36:56 Vaccine incentives in France
45:39 Friedberg's science corner: DeepMind's latest breakthrough, Big Tech censorship, free speech infringements
59:40 Capital's role in progress, Bezos' poor press conference, difference in criticism by party, Elon & Bezos as capital allocators
1:10:46 Modern online pessimist psychology & how to fix it
1:21:32 Besties give their tech industry takeaways
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Referenced in the show:
NYT - In France, angry protests, rising infections and record vaccinations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/19/world/france-covid-vaccine-pass-protests.html
NYT - Military and V.A. Struggle With Vaccination Rates in Their Ranks
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/01/us/politics/military-va-vaccines.html
CNBC - Biden on Facebook: ‘They’re killing people’ with vaccine misinformation
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/16/white-house-says-facebook-needs-to-do-more-to-fight-vaccine-misinformation.html
Fortune - In giant leap for biology, DeepMind’s A.I. reveals secret building blocks of human life
https://fortune.com/2021/07/22/deepmind-alphafold-human-proteome-database-proteins/
The Wizard of Menlo Park - Randall E. Stross
https://www.amazon.com/Wizard-Menlo-Park-Thomas-Invented/dp/1400047633
Tweets:
https://twitter.com/OliviaGoldhill/status/1417446281685966853
https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1416879494283993088
https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1417632367200673794