World's First Trillionaire, Anthropic Fable Banned, The New Oligarchs, Iran Peace Deal

David Sacks: When people turn on the TV and they see this, they think that this is just some sort of overnight success. It's not. A lot of people have to work very hard to get to this point. But at the same time that it was this historic IPO, it's also the case that in a certain sense, this didn't change anything for Elon. I think when people read that he's the world's first trillionaire, they start to think that he must have gobs of money, a trillion dollars sitting in a bank account. And that's not true. That's not how it works. That's not how wealth is created. He doesn't have one more dollar in the bank than he did the day before the IPO. It's paper wealth, clearly. It's that other people are placing a greater value on what he's built... there's a big difference between stuff and then the machines that make this stuff. And I think, again, this is where wealth comes from, is the machines that make this stuff... corporations, which are almost like cybernetic organisms or combinations of tools, workflows, humans work in them. And it's those corporations that make the stuff. And the way that people get wealthy is that if you create a machine that makes more stuff, then there's a discounted present value for all the stuff in the future that machine might create.

David Friedberg: I think that the great lie is that there are two sides to the society, that is the rich and the poor. And the great truth is that there are two sides that are the makers and the takers. The lie is that the rich are unfairly rich and the poor are unfairly poor, and therefore the poor must take from the rich. But the truth is that it's the takers that tell you that lie. That the real truth is that artists, plumbers, electricians, woodworkers, computer scientists, people that build, people that make shit from all walks of life, all income levels, all wealth brackets are the makers. And the takers are what Sachs calls this intelligentsia, the analysts, the espousers, the armchair mechanics, the critics, the commentators, the politicians. They are the takers. They are the people that watch the rest of society make stuff, build stuff, specifically doing things that create value for other people in society. That's what a maker is. I tell my kids this lesson all the time. I say, what did you guys make today? They tell me something they made and I'm like, did someone else value it or did you make it just for yourself? At the end of the day, if you made something and someone else valued it, you were a maker. That was an amazing achievement.

David Sacks: Dario came to Washington a few months ago, this was back in April, and basically said that he had created a cyber weapon called Mythos. And he spiked the cortisol level, got everyone really worried. And there was some truth to it in terms of the sense that this model had advanced cyber capabilities, but he got everybody very focused on this problem. They then had this pilot program for Mythos, this trusted partners program. And as the Washington Post reported, Anthropic expanded the program to something like 50 companies or more without consulting the White House. And according to the Washington Post, they did share Mythos with a company that the White House believes it should not have been shared with. So think about that. They're sharing these capabilities that Dario himself has said is a cyber weapon with parties that the White House, and really we're talking about the national security officials believe might have connections to China. That's SK Telecom according to these reports... You got Anthropic effectively conducting its own foreign policy here, expanding the Mythos preview to groups that the White House didn't have any knowledge of. And then once they found out, the White House, you know, this is really the role of what the White House wanted is, look, we have classified information that you don't have. We know that there are certain groups that shouldn't be getting this. And Anthropic expanded the pilot without consulting, which is, again, sort of bewildering because the whole point of what they were supposedly doing by trying to get this pre-approval regime was to consult with the government.