DOGE kills its first bill, Zuck vs OpenAI, Google's AI comeback with bestie Aaron Levie (youtube.com)
The Besties (sans Sacks for now) were saying that government might be shifting now (with Trump and maybe particularly with Musk involved and public), from everyone getting something they want (for their constituents ostensibly), ie I want this in the bill ... Well, ok you can have that but I want this other thing in the bill too ... etc. From that to people calling out, naming and shaming things put into budget bills, like NFL stadiums. Elon saying hey you guys can't do this.
‘Maybe the government doesn't understand Elon, in that he will just see this thing through, and the tools at his disposal are completely unprecedented in their ability to just put anyone in Congress on notice if they promote things that aren't making the country better.' Arron Levie. ‘What we saw this week was that playing out.’
‘If this was like Steve Bannon and Trump doing DOGE’ it would be different. Now Trump has some of the best entrepreneurs out there, and it's now ‘somewhat an IQ test, if you're on board or not.' Levie.
‘This was a multi-hundred billion dollar grift that was stopped on a dime over 12 hours of tweets. You would have never thought that was possible. To put a dagger in something so big, that had such broad support just a few hours earlier. I think it’s so consequential on how the US can be run.' Chamath. 'Pork barrel bill.'
And this is why podcasts are the new medium, the new first medium, the trusted information source. I've been watching new headlines all week, and they really are effective in making Musk look bad, in changing opinion of him to a negative one, but then 4 tech entrepreneurs who know the situation, know several domains including politics, know the people involved, and they just speak clearly on what's happeing.
GROK and other gpts can now go through 1500 pages of policy and really understand what's being asked and what's being proposed. And present this in a way anyone can understand. For decades, malevolent things have been hidden in superlong bills and government and 3-letter briefs, legislation was passed because no one had the time to read such a long document. Chamath. ‘What you’re going to see is a much more active form of government' because citizens now can see what things are about and they can tell their representative.
Democrats are calling Musk a ‘shadow president’ but everything Musk does is more public and immediately publicized (on X) than ever politics has seen probably.
Maybe if you wanna do a 1500-page bill, you have to allot 1 day for every 100 pages, suggestion by Jcal. And start breaking these bills down.