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Ben Gilbert: belief

7 Sept 2021 Acquired TSMC

“I think so. It’s globalization as a whole. In the best interest of everyone to continue to share resources, to continue to entangle everything until somebody decides that it’s not and then we have a big problem.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
7 Sept 2021
Publisher
Acquired
Episode
TSMC

Transcript context

…It’s super, super weird and bizarre. North Korea is right there. Maybe it’s the same like China’s right there, but this isn’t actually going to happen. I don’t know, it feels like in the last year, the risk of it actually happening has ratcheted it up quite a bit. I think so. It’s globalization as a whole. In the best interest of everyone to continue to share resources, to continue to entangle everything until somebody decides that it’s not and then we have a big problem. Hopefully, for lots of reasons, it just continues to be okay that TSMC is located on an island that is of disputed claim. Yeah. Maybe the best thing that could happen is, my carve out a while back was the book by the Harvard chair, the Harvard astrophysics department about Oumuamua that he postulates was an alien spaceship. Maybe if we discovered that aliens are real, that’s going to be the uniting force. All these conflicts seem pretty petty. I wouldn’t use that as an investment he says, though.…

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