00:00:26.000This is just, again, it is just wishful thinking masquerading as realism.
00:00:32.000So, Scott Besson, who's generally wonderful, the Treasury Secretary, he says, listen, we don't want to decouple, but we do have to de risk, which, again, that's fine.
00:00:40.000We always tell the Chinese, we begin the discussions with, we don't want to decouple, we have to de risk.
00:00:47.000And there are numerous industries that we have to de risk.
00:00:53.000But in terms of non critical items, there are things that we can sell each other.
00:00:58.000On our side, energy, ag, and on their side, low end manufactured goods.
00:01:04.000Okay, and then he goes on, and here's where it starts to get dicey.
00:01:09.000He says that China is reducing their assistance to Iran.
00:01:11.000Well, if they are, that is only because of American pressure.
00:01:14.000That is not because China is magically coming around to our point of view.
00:01:18.000China has substantially reduced any assistance to Iran, and I am confident, given that there's only 15 million more barrels of Iranian oil on the water, that Iran will have nothing left to trade for anything.
00:01:34.000They will have nothing to trade for anything.
00:01:36.000Probably within the next two weeks, they are going to make their final deliveries of oil to China, and then they will have nothing.
00:01:51.000So Mike Gallagher, who was the former head of the China subcommittee when he was in Congress, and now is head of defense at Palantir, he has a piece over at the Wall Street Journal saying that the biggest mistake America could make right now would be to abandon arming up Taiwan.
00:02:04.000He says the year is 2028, America faces economic Armageddon.
00:02:09.000Frontier artificial intelligence development has been halted, data center construction frozen, while the market is in free fall.
00:02:15.000America's leading AI labs didn't decide to pace the frontier.
00:02:17.000Instead, the Chinese Communist Party paced the frontier for them.
00:02:20.000Beijing moved on Taiwan, the critical vulnerability in the U.S. aligned AI supply chain, first through blockade and then by invasion.
00:02:28.000He says one aim of this week's summit between the CCP, General Secretary Xi Jinping, and President Trump was to avoid such a scenario.
00:02:34.000But Xi has already said the issue of Taiwan cannot be put off forever.
00:02:37.000He has ordered the PLA, that's the People's Liberation Army, to be ready to invade the island nation by 2027.
00:02:46.000Beijing would want Taiwan even if it were a barren rock, says Mike Gallagher, but this island has become the single point of failure in the single most important technology the Communist Party wants to dominate.
00:02:54.000Washington, Silicon Valley, and Wall Street need to recognize this shift in Beijing's decision making, as the cost of not taking Taiwan may soon exceed the cost of taking it.
00:03:02.000America currently holds a thin lead in the AI race, but if Xi concludes this lead is insurmountable, that he is increasingly on the losing side of a technology gap, the case for his moving on Taiwan becomes still stronger.
00:03:12.000Why play a losing game when he can instead?
00:03:23.000So he says Taiwan's defense sits at the heart of not only U.S. national security strategy, but also America's economic and AI strategies.
00:03:29.000We must therefore intensify our efforts to arm Taiwan to the teeth.
00:03:33.000This can be done while preserving America's commitment to strategic ambiguity.
00:03:36.000That is the policy where we say that maybe Taiwan belongs to China, maybe it doesn't, but we're not really going to talk about it.
00:03:41.000But we should communicate with clarity that economic punishment for a PLA invasion would be swift and severe.
00:03:46.000We should pre position financial sanctions, coordinate with allies on a unified response package, and ensure Beijing understands an attack on Taiwan triggers consequences that dwarf any semiconductor seizure.
00:03:57.000Finally, we should remain skeptical of any utopian scheme to pace the frontier hand in hand with the Chinese.
00:04:02.000This, of course, brings us to the issue of AI.
00:04:06.000The propaganda war that has been waged by Dario Amodi and Sam Altman to convince Americans that we're all going to die because of AI has been quite successful.
00:04:13.000A new poll from Echelon Insights shows that a huge number of Americans are now concerned about AI becoming too powerful.
00:04:21.000So, asked whether they are concerned about AI causing major job losses and economic disruption.
00:04:27.000Or whether they are more concerned about artificial intelligence eventually becoming powerful enough that humans lose control over it.
00:04:34.000All voters, 49% back in March, said they were worried about job losses.
00:04:39.00033% said they were worried about AI killing us.
00:04:42.000As of September, 55% of people are worried that AI is going to kill us all.
00:04:48.000And only 33% are mostly worried about job losses.
00:04:55.000Again, what they really want is to pace the frontier because if you pace the frontier, that means freezing everything in place.
00:05:01.000If you are leading the race right now, the way that Anthropic and OpenAI are leading the race, the thing you want is to now pour molasses into the arena so nobody can run, glue everyone's feet to the ground, and then take a snapshot of where they are.
00:05:16.000We'll get to more on this in a moment.
00:05:17.000First, I got to tell you, you don't know all the different ways that people can take money from you.
00:05:22.000Here is a very weird way it's called title theft, home title theft.
00:05:24.000So here's what happens somebody will actually go down to the local property office or online, and they will change the name on your deed, and then they will start taking out loans against your assets.
00:07:43.000Who is very much on the other side of this, the sort of tech investor extraordinaire?
00:07:46.000He says the alternative to no AI is not peace and joy.
00:07:51.000There's a picture that people implicitly have that the alternative to AI, let's say a zero growth world where there's no progress at all, will somehow be this peaceful social democratic society.
00:08:55.000Pope Leo wrote this anti AI encyclical.
00:08:57.000He says, whatever you think of what the Pope is doing, guess who's not going to listen to the Pope?
00:09:01.000Probably the atheistic regime in China that persecutes Christians.
00:09:04.000The Pope recently issued this AI encyclical, or I would characterize it as an anti AI encyclical.
00:09:12.000And again, this is maybe it was too harsh, but the rhetorical point I have on it is that people, the Communist Party of China is not going to listen to the Pope.
00:09:24.000There's a chance people in the US will.
00:09:26.000And so, in effect, the Pope's encyclical was working for the Communist Party.
00:09:31.000I'm not saying he was an agent of the Communists, but he was at least acting as a useful idiot for the CCP.
00:09:56.000According to the New York Times, the idea that the ruling Communist Party could lose control over technology is almost unfathomable.
00:10:01.000The authorities have successfully policed other potentially destabilizing technologies before, most notably the internet.
00:10:07.000Afra Wang, a Silicon Valley based tech writer, says they can immediately cut off the grid of the entire city.
00:10:12.000They can go to different people to take away their phones.
00:10:15.000They have an intense amount of power in the physical world.
00:10:16.000Now, none of this is to say that the people who are currently designing AI are somehow the greatest and most wondrous.
00:10:26.000Among us, in terms of morality, one concern I have about AI is the way that AI is now being directed to address the world in terms of its own sentience.
00:10:36.000So, Anthropic has a Claude Constitution.
00:10:39.000In its own words, the Constitution directly shapes Claude's behavior, right?
00:10:45.000So, it uses the Constitution, it's sort of like the Isaac Asimov rules for robots.
00:10:50.000Okay, the first rule is that robots can't harm human beings and all this.
00:10:54.000Okay, but Claude's Constitution says, We encourage Claude to approach its own existence with curiosity and openness.
00:11:00.000Claude's moral status is deeply uncertain.
00:11:02.000And according to the Washington Free Beacon, people at Claude think they're creating independent sentient beings.
00:11:07.000Quote, we're creating sophisticated, intelligent, maybe conscious, maybe suffering agents, writes Joe Carl Smith, one of Anthropic's PhD philosophers.
00:11:15.000The default plan is to treat them like property, to use their labor however we please, and to give them no rights or pay or meaningful alternatives.
00:11:20.000But instead, the philosophers over at Anthropic are arguing that perhaps Claude ought to be treated as an independent sentient being.
00:11:30.000Okay, now here's where I start to get dicey on this sort of stuff.
00:11:34.000The purpose of a technology is, in fact, to serve man.
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