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'''Eric Weinstein:'''
'''Eric Weinstein:'''
So did you see your neighbor Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz’s podcast where they talked about going to the white House and the issue of AI, and they said, these visitors say, well, you can't bound math. And the White House says, oh, yes, we can. We had to do it. We had to do it for theoretical physics. In theoretical physics, you've got something called “Restricted Data”, which sounds completely innocuous, which means that there are it's the only category of intellectual property that is “[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_secret Born Secret]”. That means that if you're working at a cafe, you have no job with the federal government—you're not under any restrictions—if you write down something that can potentially impinge upon nuclear weaponry, it is already Q-classified just at the table—no government agency has to come in. Then we have another concept called the [https://www.bis.gov/deemed-exports Deemed Export], which is intellectual, like, ideas that you can't share with foreign nationals. You don't understand how much NatSec infrastructure lives inside of these places. And Jay, you know, one of the most meaningful things you ever said to me was something like, “I've been at Stanford for 30+ years, and I had no idea how the place even worked!”
So did you see your neighbor [https://youtu.be/n_sNclEgQZQ?t=3397 Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz’s podcast where they talked about going to the white House and the issue of AI], and they said, these visitors say, well, you can't bound math. And the White House says, oh, yes, we can. We had to do it. We had to do it for theoretical physics. In theoretical physics, you've got something called “Restricted Data”, which sounds completely innocuous, which means that there are it's the only category of intellectual property that is “[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_secret Born Secret]”. That means that if you're working at a cafe, you have no job with the federal government—you're not under any restrictions—if you write down something that can potentially impinge upon nuclear weaponry, it is already Q-classified just at the table—no government agency has to come in. Then we have another concept called the [https://www.bis.gov/deemed-exports Deemed Export], which is intellectual, like, ideas that you can't share with foreign nationals. You don't understand how much NatSec infrastructure lives inside of these places. And Jay, you know, one of the most meaningful things you ever said to me was something like, “I've been at Stanford for 30+ years, and I had no idea how the place even worked!”


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