E107: The Twitter Files Parts 1-2: shadow banning, story suppression, interference & more
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Tier crossings
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Kill dates that landed since E106
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| 🤖 Deep physical science and R&D is the one long-duration bet still worth buying | MISS | -40.0% | -30.0 | 2022-12-04 |
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What got argued (4 ideas)
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And then you look at other countries like Nigeria or India, who are in, you know, at the beginning of what could be a multi-decade boom, because you have 20-year-olds that will be entering the workforce, you know, they'll effectively work for less than their older counterparts, right? So then there'll be an incentive then to bring work on shore into those countries.
if you get money some way, but it comes from somebody who fraudulently acquired that money, you have to give the money back. So in this example, what it would mean is if that they can show that that $15 million that this guy got came from SBF basically raiding the piggy bank of user accounts, he's going to have to pay the money back.
a really interesting product of the crypto ecosystem and the model that so many kind of crypto businesses have engaged in over the years, which is if you can fester the belief, then there is a business. If you cannot fester the belief, there is no business. That there isn't a fundamental productivity driver. It's about building a belief system.
Episode digest
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Thin market yield by design: three quarters of E107 is Twitter Files content-moderation ethics and a long Jason-Sacks political fight with no tradeable channel. The one new idea is Chamath's call that Washington now attempts a Section 230 rewrite that legally mandates shadow-ban/de-boost disclosure and an appeal right across every large platform — Jason endorses it outright, Friedberg takes the other side (moderation is a product decision, users can go elsewhere), so the debate lands as a genuine three-voice split rather than consensus. Chamath table-pounds his China demographics thesis unprompted ('I've been tweeting about this for years'), reinforcing china-demographic-decline-caps-growth-2022 with the 600-million-by-2100 number, and extends it into a young-workforce boom in India and Nigeria that pulls work onshore there (attached to china-factory-exodus-vietnam-india-2022). On FTX, Chamath predicts fraudulent-conveyance clawbacks against everyone SBF paid — the $15M Kevin O'Leary fee specifically — with Sacks adding the 90-day bankruptcy unwind, both feeding the crypto-enforcement-wave thesis; Friedberg's 'if you can fester the belief, then there is a business' verdict on crypto business models supports the E061 crypto-bubble-shakeout call 19 days before its window closes. Deliberately not captured: China's zero-COVID reopening (Chamath analyses why it happened but makes no directional market claim, ending on 'the real question is what will it mean for the US economy'), Jason's consensus aside on Japan's constricting economy, and the dark-money / red-wave and Sinema segments. Diarization: the four host labels are CLEAN (Jason top talker at 114 turns; addressed-by-name and fingerprint tests both pass), but 'Kevin O'Leary' (4 turns) and 'SPEAKER_6' at 59:47-1:00:33 are a played 75-second CNBC clip Jason cues in, not guests, so nothing is attributed to them; the stray SPEAKER_6 line at 43:00 is Jason mid-argument; and Friedberg's 13:19 turn opens with Jason's 'Go ahead, Friedberg.' hand-off absorbed into its head (does not touch the captured quote).