E276
Anthropic's Fable Backlash, Nationalizing AI, Inflation Heats Up & California's Broken Elections
2026-06-13 spoken.md · speaker-labeled ▶ watch ← E275 all episodes E277 →
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ideas born
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ideas moved
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captures · 3 voices
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conviction added
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decay · 62 silent
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Tier crossings
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Kill dates that landed since E275
1 hit · 0 partial · 0 miss — windows that closed after 2026-05-29 and up to 2026-06-13, auto-scored against price data and never hand-set. verdict · R · α
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| ⚡ An Iran engagement escalates, doubles oil and derails the agenda | HIT | +56.4% | +30.7 | 2026-06-13 |
Who moved the board
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What got argued (6 ideas)
ordered by how hard each idea moved · quotes are verbatim from the transcript, timestamps deep-link into the episode
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they will increasingly take in prompts, evaluate the prompts, and decide what to do with them ... a person, you should generally now think there's a risk of censorship. If you're a company, I think it's almost a non-starter. ... you'll get cut off from a very important source of business differentiation
Over the last couple of weeks, they've begun to restrict the ability to use the models to do that ... we are likely going to end up needing to use open-source models and run them locally ourselves. ... forcing a lot of companies to go and get open-source Chinese models ... We're seeing this across the landscape with startups, with large-scale enterprises. Everyone's making that move. ... We're gonna chase people off of this platform.
there's also the macro point, which is government spending out of control. Inflation out of control. And fundamentally, as things unravel, you have rising rates. So I think we should kind of expect, especially with the Kevin Warsh Fed, I think we could see north of five and a half, six percent overnight rates. It's not unforeseeable.
The core problem with wealth inequality in this country, the core problem with inflation in this country, ... all of it roots back to excess government spending. End of story. ... one of the manifestations of it will be in this late stage, higher rates and as a response to inflation.
We just had a blowout jobs report in May, 172,000 new jobs over twice what economists were expecting. Thank you, President Trump. We're seeing hundreds of thousands of new construction jobs, 4.3% unemployment rate at record lows, okay? Even software developers, those jobs are at a three-year high,
The real opportunity with AI is on the revenue side, where suddenly one engineer can do a hundred times or a thousand times what they used to ... people are hiring like crazy. We cannot hire enough people. ... an extra 15 head count to our engineering squads ... everyone's going to realize soon that this is a boom, not a bust.
China has been smoothing the energy consumption globally ... we've kind of kept a damper on $200 a barrel oil. In fact, we're sub $100. ... If China somehow runs out of reserves and they need to go back into the spot market and buy an extra 3 million barrels a day, there's a very big risk that oil gets into the well past 100, and maybe between 150 and 200 a barrel.
Episode digest
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Core four back. The Fable 5 backlash is the A-block: Anthropic's new Mythos-class model tops nearly every benchmark at 2x Opus 4.8 token cost, but ships with 30-day retention of ALL prompts/outputs/context (no exceptions — even enterprise zero-data-retention contracts), capability-based user profiling, silent downgrades for frontier-AI/ML/chip-design research (buried in a 319-page doc), and background prompt rewriting while still charging full price — partially walked back in Wired (downgrades now disclosed, still applied). Jason gets LIVE-downgraded on air twice (fertilizer-regulation question, nuclear-bomb-arrest history question → kicked from Fable to Opus 4.8); Ben Thompson kicked for a GLP-1/cancer question; a mitochondria question triggered it for another user. Chamath's enterprise read (captured as anthropic oppose): prompt-evaluation = censorship risk for individuals, 'almost a non-starter' for companies — plus the subtler insidious risk of corporate favoritism (Novartis-vs-Lilly, JPM-vs-Citi steering with no auditable trace) and his KYC tell ('Anthropic could implement KYC tomorrow, but it does not' — the lack is the proof of the red-capture agenda). Friedberg's defection receipt (captured, positioning): Ohalo's genomics work (RNA guide design, gene-variant prediction) got restricted in recent weeks → moving to open-source models run locally, next step a proprietary genome language model on top (ARC Institute's open-source genome LM, Collison-funded, already in their breeding program); warns the best open-source models are CHINESE and US restriction just hands them the market. Sacks: his 8-month-old regulatory-capture call is now consensus; Dario's new blog demands an FAA/FDA-style model-approval agency the same week — and the recursive-self-improvement 'pause' blog landed a month after hiring Karpathy to RUN recursive self-improvement ('complete hypocrites'); repeats the open-source-ban-is-the-endgame warning; 'they're not a monopolist yet, but if they get the red capture they're looking for, they will be.' Jason's steelman: Dario believes it ('90% of AI researchers think exactly like Dario. That's why he's winning' — the talent-alignment point). Bernie's American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act (one-time 50% stock seizure of OpenAI/Anthropic/xAI, board seats, public voting rights): Sacks against confiscation but 'they asked for it' (PBCs that trained free on humanity's knowledge while predicting 50% job loss — 'part of me wants to agree with Bernie... it's a stupidity tax'); Friedberg's counter-proposal: reform the $4T single-certificate Social Security Trust Fund into an account-based sovereign wealth fund that BUYS equities including AI ('investments, not seizures'); Chamath's interstate-highway analogy — AI's marginal cost per user is HIGH (GPUs, electrons, memory) unlike the internet's zero-marginal-cost money glitch, so the state's infrastructure claim has real leverage ('if it were me running the Sovereign Wealth Fund... I'd own 75% when I was done'). Chamath's Arizona positioning update (captured on capex): 2,000 acres zoned for 2GW, offer in on another gigawatt site, gigawatt cost 5B→100B (20x in 2 years), and he may be 'dragged into building' 3GW (~$300B) to create open-source compute liquidity — conflict noted (talking his own book); also 'Meta really fumbled Llama... what a fumble' (era rule: meta-open-source-ai-leader born later, no retro-attach). Polymarket: SpaceX public before 2027 = 100% (IPO'd June 12 — not otherwise discussed this episode), Anthropic 83%, OpenAI 48% (privately filed). LaFont power-law recap: unicorn→dekacorn 8%, →centicorn 13%, →trillion 31%; Sacks extrapolates ~60% of trillion-caps reach $10T. INFLATION RIPPING: May CPI 4.2% y/y (highest since Apr 2023), PPI 6.5% (highest since 2022), ECB's first hike since 2023, Polymarket 49% Fed HIKE this year (was <10% pre-Iran-war) — Friedberg's fed-easing REVERSAL captured (he relayed Warsh-deflation approvingly in E270; now expects a Warsh Fed at 5.5-6% overnight rates) + debt-spiral re-up; Chamath's oil scenario captured as oil-decline oppose (China smoothing keeps oil sub-$100; if their reserves run out, $150-200 risk; 'PPI should be an alarm to off-ramp the Iran situation'); Sacks notes print was in-line, NASDAQ +2.5% same day pricing Iran resolution. Jobs-boom re-ups captured (Sacks 172K May payrolls w/ Trump cheerleading — strength capped; Friedberg's revenue-side-not-cost-side frame + Ohalo hiring 15). LA mayoral 'appointment': Raman/Pratt mail-in-after-election-day flip, ballot-harvesting laws (AB 1921), Newsom's anti-audit law, Skid Row allegations, Steve Hilton state-of-emergency break-glass — politics, digest. Labels: clean full names throughout.