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Jerry Davis

May 8, 2026

1:58
What's your take?
2:00
Yeah, I love your title.
2:02
I love the premise of the whole thing.
2:04
And, you know, I am kind of a fan of speculative fiction and not sort of the standard science fiction that Elon Musk might have been raised on.
2:13
But, you know, some of my favorite authors are like Octavia Butler and Cory Doctorow, Margaret Atwood, Kim Stanley Robinson.
2:22
There's like a lot of authors that are really good at taking a premise and saying, where could this go? And I feel like the reality we're living in now, it's often take any new technological innovation, anything that has the possibility to make the world a better place, and then think, what would a venture capitalist do with this innovation? and you instantly go to the most black mirror episode, like what's the worst thing that could happen to humanity? That's the thing that ends up getting funded and supported, because oftentimes the thing that's going to bring you the biggest returns are not the things that are going to be the best for society.
3:03
So you may know and remember Juul, the vaping And the origins of Juul are really interesting.

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47:14
thing.

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