E32: Behind the scenes of Elon hosting SNL, CDC failures, America's real-time UBI experiment, post-COVID boom in jeopardy & more

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

May 13, 2021•1 hr 23 min

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Referenced in the show:

NY Times - A Misleading C.D.C. Number

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/briefing/outdoor-covidtransmission-cdc-number.html

medRxiv - COVID-19 Aerosolized Viral Loads, Environment, Ventilation, Masks, Exposure Time, Severity, And Immune Response: A Pragmatic Guide Of Estimates

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.03.20206110v6.full

Business Insider - Silicon Valley VCs are at war with the ‘far left radicals’ running California

https://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-venture-capitalists-at-front-lines-california-recall-2021-5

NY Post - Powerful teachers union influenced CDC on school reopenings, emails show

https://nypost.com/2021/05/01/teachers-union-collaborated-with-cdc-on-school-reopening-emails/

MMA - Governor Reeves Announces End to Pandemic Unemployment Assistance

https://mma-web.org/governor-reeves-announces-end-to-pandemic-unemployment-assistance/

Tweets:

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1392154915640729605

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1392223301154447361

https://twitter.com/Jason/status/1391591653824204801

https://twitter.com/Jason/status/1391257138698375168

https://twitter.com/skepticaliblog/status/1391958173955682309

https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1390390598444609538

https://twitter.com/friedberg/status/1392551233618026496

https://twitter.com/bytecoin8

Show Notes:

0:00 Jason goes behind the scenes of Elon's SNL appearance

23:36 CDC failures, misleading information on COVID spreading outdoors

39:10 Reacting to Stanley Druckenmiller's thoughts on current Fed policy, decoupling of capital markets from policy

48:32 America's real-time UBI experiment, Business Insider's piece covering All-In

1:05:23 Friedberg's science corner: synthetic biology IPO/SPACs, stem cell breakthroughs & more

1:19:15 Should the besties start a third party? Is it possible?

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