Ben Todd: belief

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…How would you handicap where we are in terms of the development of policy proposals versus advocacy or other efforts to bring them into the Overton window and eventually make them happen. I guess one way to say that is do we have most of the good ideas we need or do you think there's a lot of like blue sky policy room still out there to explore and develop new ideas. For the ideas that we do have, are they well developed or do they still need a lot of work to really flesh them out? And then yeah, the third part is obviously these things are not immediately about to happen. So for that one, I guess it's more like, where do you think people should go? What's the best margin to work on to actually move the needle probability of it happening. But they gave you a lot there. So take your time. Yeah, I'm going to slightly cop out with like portfolio approach. Again, I think all of these things are pretty needed. Like a lot of policy proposals aren't super fleshed out. There's a lot more that can be done with fleshing them out. I think we also need people developing new broad approaches. Like the other approaches have only really been developed in the last couple of years. So I'm sure there's a lot more that could be discovered. And then I think there is also a big kind of like political will gap to actually get any of these things implemented. My sense is like the understanding of AI is like very low still amongst it's much better than in the past. But the number of people in Washington who really like know what the meter time horizon chart is seems actually still pretty small from what I can gauge. And that seems like a kind of very basic level of understanding of the situation. So I think just like more, training, like getting people to understand the issues, care more about them. I think also just like more popular support helps as well because politicians won't do things unless there's some type of electoral incentive ultimately. They will sometimes, but it's much more touch and go. And yeah, there's still very little of that. There's a lot of just general negative sentiment about AI, but it's being directed into banning data centers, which doesn't really seem to help because those companies will just build those data centers somewhere else, like potentially the UAE, which seems significantly worse. So if we're lucky, I'll build them in Australia or the UK or somewhere like that. Classic cradle of American values, the UAE. which is also proven to be quite a dangerous place to have a data center as of late.…

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