Joel Stein

Now, the report that had that 17% number also had a detail about Anthropic reducing and then ultimately ceasing to hire junior technical talent in fairly short order.

Joel Stein wrote, "...pretty wild that we're seeing this about the public benefit fund at the same time we're learning that Anthropic is on track to cease hiring junior technical talent by mid-2027." And indeed to some, this is basically anthropic announcing privatized UBI.

AI aggregator Andrew Curran again writes, "...the most significant line for me is direct distributions to specific populations.

It sounds to me like they are planning their own form of self-directed global universal basic income." Now, getting at why a private UBI is quite different than a government program, Prins on X writes, "...you can't have UBI that is also only to specific populations." Now, one group who was interestingly absent from the discourse were the AI safety folks.

Yeah.

And I remember talking to Joel Stein and saying like, "I just sometimes don't know what I, what it is I wanna say," and he's like, "Oh, that's never my problem.

Like, I always know what I wanna say." And I think that p- other people who have maybe accomplished...

Like, I'm thinking of, of our listener and friend, Lucas-

Because we all have to have our own private Idaho.

Use Joel Stein and the way he used

Edison.

My own private Edison.

You didn't see the Joel Stein article about Edison in New Jersey in Time Magazine? Reinsulted Indians.

There was a big uproar about it.

I was surprised you didn't see it.

Is it going to – I don't know if it's going to make an electoral difference.

It feels like a lot of folks on the right still are just like – gonna keep hammering away at like democrats and voting for trump but i do think i do think heading into 2028 this could make a difference that we have folks like marjorie taylor greene who i don't know if she's gonna what she's gonna do politically like when it comes to the national when it comes to the presidential race but uh but it's like someone like her tucker carlson if this is how they are now they could be like a Joel Stein type figure and really be a thorn in the side of the Republicans and help make sure that they just don't have the coalition to get someone elected.

Like I've said, like we're in, we're in a place where we're trying to save the country.

You take an enemy of my enemy is my friend.