All-In PodcastE8: TikTok + Oracle, how privacy loss will impact society, economy & COVID outlooks for 2021
Episode Details
EPISODE INFO
- Released
- September 19, 2020
- Duration
- 1h 24m
- Channel
- All-In Podcast
- Watch on YouTube
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Follow the crew: https://twitter.com/chamath https://linktr.ee/calacanis https://twitter.com/DavidSacks https://twitter.com/friedberg Follow the pod: https://twitter.com/theallinpod https://bio.fm/theallinpod Articles referenced in the show: America Needs to Lock Down Again: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-09-16/coronavirus-america-needs-lock-down-again A Taxonomy of Fear: https://www.persuasion.community/p/a-taxonomy-of-fear NuScale Power Article: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200828005299/en/NuScale-Power-Makes-History-as-the-First-Ever-Small-Modular-Reactor-to-Receive-U.S.-Nuclear-Regulatory-Commission-Design-Approval Running Tide Article: https://www.fastcompany.com/90548820/forget-planting-trees-this-company-is-making-carbon-offsets-by-putting-seaweed-on-the-ocean-floor Show Notes: 0:00 The besties talk about the bestie reunion mishap, the Code 13 story & more 5:42 TikTok + Oracle, is the escalation between China & US a slippery slope, security threats created by modern software 15:01 What’s the bigger picture of the TikTok debate, what policy could be enacted 20:13 The emerging market for guaranteed privacy & how this impacts society 27:43 State of the US economy, is there a permanent unemployed class & could there be a second wave of lockdowns? 37:44 COVID outlooks for 2021 & beyond, innovations in rapid testing 46:22 Trump’s COVID response, Trump vs. Biden, shrinking impact of the executive branch 55:11 California wildfires, politicization of global warming, financial incentives to solving climate change 1:08:28 Practical ways to impact global warming & the carbon crisis 1:11:57 Sacks on A Taxonomy of Fear by Emily Yoffe, Safety-ism & contamination by association 1:18:58 Could Trump being re-elected eliminate the two-party system?
SPEAKERS
Jason Calacanis
hostDavid Friedberg
hostChamath Palihapitiya
hostNarrator
other
EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of All-In Podcast, featuring Jason Calacanis and David Friedberg, E8: TikTok + Oracle, how privacy loss will impact society, economy & COVID outlooks for 2021 explores tikTok, data privacy, COVID futures, climate tech, and cancel culture collide This episode of the All-In Podcast ranges from the U.S. push to constrain TikTok and Chinese tech influence, to the broader crisis of digital privacy and surveillance. The besties debate COVID policy, long‑term economic effects, and how rapid testing and vaccines may reset behavior by 2021–22. They then shift to climate change, arguing technology and market incentives—rather than austerity—will drive decarbonization, and touch on nuclear and bioengineering solutions. The show closes on cancel culture, arguing that overreach by extremes on both left and right could fuel another Trump victory and ultimately fracture the two-party system.
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